Journal of Field Robotics

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Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	68
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	66
Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	61
Nonlinear Optimal and Multi‐Loop Flatness‐Based Control for Dual‐UAV Cooperative Load Transportation	61
Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	60
Bidirectional Multimodal Fusion for Point Cloud Segmentation of Navigable Areas in Complex Field Emergency Environments	59
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Real‐Time Detection of Undesired Human Interventions in Robotic Work Cells Using a Convolutional Neural Network‐Based Novel Architecture and Reliability Analysis With Explainable Artificial Intelligen	55
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	55
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	54
Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	52
A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	49
Rapid Detection of Ripe Tomatoes in Unstructured Environments	48
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	48
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	47
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	43
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	43
A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	43
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	42
Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	39
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	36
A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	36

AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	35
In situ skid estimation for mobile robots in outdoor environments	35
Performance evaluation of newly released cameras for fruit detection and localization in complex kiwifruit orchard environments	34
Visual Inertial SLAM Based on Spatiotemporal Consistency Optimization in Diverse Environments	34
Turbid Underwater Image Enhancement via Attenuation Prior Formation Model	34
Expediting recovery of autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic mission environments: A system‐of‐systems challenge for underwater warfare	33
Long future frame prediction using optical flow‐informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments	33
SiaRDFNet: Leveraging Siamese Architecture With ResNet‐DenseNet Fusion for Accurate Root Disease Classification	33
Four years of multimodal odometry and mapping on the rail vehicles	32
Vector Field‐Based Collision‐Free Navigation in Tunnel‐Like Environments	32
REQDGAN‐TUA: A Reflection Equivariant Quantum Graph Attention Framework With Tactical Unit Optimization for Intelligent Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Robotics	32
Advanced Deep Learning Architecture for Real‐Time Online Train Tread Segmentation and Wear Detection	32
Collaborative Sampling and Imaging of Phytoplankton Communities by Two Long‐Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Acoustic Tracking and Messaging	32
Precision Error Compensation Algorithm for Automated Drill Pipe Gripping in Underground Coal Mine Drilling Robots	30
Autonomous Grading Maneuver Determination Algorithm for Electric Dozers	30
Power and energy consumption of skid‐steer rovers turning on loose soil	30
A benchmark analysis of data‐driven and geometric approaches for robot ego‐motion estimation	29
Vision‐assisted deep stall landing for a fixed‐wing UAV	28
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Development of a Machine Vision‐Based Walk‐Behind Cotton Fertilizer Applicator	27
Research on Steering Path Tracking Performance of Articulated Quad‐Tracked Vehicle Based on Fuzzy PID Control	27
A Robust Transformer–Based Error Compensation Method for Gyroscope of IMUs	27
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Achievements and future directions in self‐reconfigurable modular robotic systems	24
A Two‐Stage Recognition and Planning Approach for Grasping Manipulators and Design of End‐Effectors	24
LiDAR‐based automated UAV inspection of wind turbine rotor blades	22
Toward a Track‐Fin Hybrid Driven Bionic Amphibious Robot: Design, Development, and Experiments	22
Assessing the practical applicability of neural‐based point clouds registration algorithms: A comparative analysis	22
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Puttybot: A sensorized robot for autonomous putty plastering	21
A drone‐based photometric measurement platform	21
A comprehensive review on deploying robotics application in telecom network tower's field maintenance: Challenges with current practices and feasibility analysis for robotics implementation	20
Under‐Ice Odometry Fusing Acoustic and Visual Information for Underwater Vehicles	20
Optimization and evaluation of machine–field parameters of remotely controlled two‐wheel paddy transplanter	20
A Novel High‐Voltage‐Wire Stripping Robot and Adaptive Fuzzy RBF Neural Network PID Controller Optimized by PSO‐GA Algorithm	20
A Framework to Enable Eco‐Cyber‐Physical Systems for Robotics‐Focused Digital Twins in Smart Farming	19
Mobile robotics platform for strawberry sensing and harvesting within precision indoor farming systems	19
Digital Twin/MARS‐CycleGAN: Enhancing Sim‐to‐Real Crop/Row Detection for MARS Phenotyping Robot Using Synthetic Images	19
Development and Prospect of Uncrewed Sailboat Hulls: A Review	19
Visual‐Inertial SLAM for Unstructured Outdoor Environments: Benchmarking the Benefits and Computational Costs of Loop Closing	19
Design and field test of a foldable wing unmanned aerial–underwater vehicle	19
A strawberry harvest‐aiding system with crop‐transport collaborative robots: Design, development, and field evaluation	19
Intelligent Autonomy: A Novel Hybrid Navigation System for Autonomous Load‐Haul‐Dump Vehicles	19
Longitudinal deep truck: Deep longitudinal model with application to sim2real deep reinforcement learning for heavy‐duty truck control in the field	19
A Novel eXtreme Gradient Boosting‐Shapley Additive Explanation Calibration Method for Six‐Axis Force/Torque Sensors	18
Terrain‐aware path planning via semantic segmentation and uncertainty rejection filter with adversarial noise for mobile robots	18
Interaction mechanics model for screw‐drive wheel of granary robot traveling on the loose grain terrain	18

Cable‐Driven Hyper‐Redundant Manipulator With Pitch‐Twist Joints: Mechatronic Design, Kinematics Analysis, and Prototype	18
Learning‐Based Rapid Phase‐Aberration Correction and Control for Robot‐Assisted MRI‐Guided Low‐/High‐Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatments	18
A high‐resolution AUV navigation framework with integrated communication and tracking for under‐ice deployments	18
Dynamic Docking Anti‐Disturbance Control of Overactuated AUV: System, Method, and Lake Trails	18
Design and performance analysis of soft pneumatic manipulator‐based linear cutter and stem holder for sweet pepper harvesting	18
A Boustrophedon‐Optimized Neural Network for Autonomous Path Planning in Large‐Scale Photovoltaic Farms	17
A cable‐driven underwater robotic system for delicate manipulation of marine biology samples	17
Optimizing PID control for enhanced stability of a 16‐DOF biped robot during ditch crossing	17
A Review on Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: From Models, Classical Methods, and Learning‐Based Intelligence Perspectives	17
Towards Damage‐Less Robotic Fragile Fruit Grasping: A Systematic Review on System Design, End Effector, and Visual and Tactile Feedback	17
FCN‐YOLOS: An Effective Deep‐Learning Model for Real‐Time Object Detection	17
Time–jerk optimal trajectory planning for industrial robots with coupled interpolation function selection	17
An autonomous ground robot to support firefighters' interventions in indoor emergencies	17
Efficient and Adaptive Autonomous Guidance and Control of Planetary Rover With Improved Traction Controller and Dynamic Cost Map	16
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Hybrid Velocity Obstacle‐Nonlinear Control Method for Real‐Time Collision Avoidance of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots	16
Influence of screw blades on the performance of a screw‐drive granary robot	16
MARCEL: Mobile active rover chassis for enhanced locomotion	16
Paddy field object detection for robotic combine based on real‐time semantic segmentation algorithm	16
FTR‐Bench: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flipper‐Track Robot Control	16
SAPT: A Hierarchical Sliced Anchor Point Transformer for LiDAR Point Cloud in Robot Perception	15
A CIELAB fusion‐based generative adversarial network for reliable sand–dust removal in open‐pit mines	15
Attention mechanism‐based multisensor data fusion neural network for fault diagnosis of autonomous underwater vehicles	15
INF‐SLiM: Large‐Scale Implicit Neural Fields for Semantic LiDAR Mapping of Embodied AI Agents	15
Design and manufacturing a novel screw‐in‐pipe inspection robot with steering capability	15
Correction to “Aerial online mapping on‐board system by real‐time object detection for UGV path generation in unstructured outdoor environments”	15
A Spiral Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Nonomnidirectional Robots	15
Formation Control and Experiment for Propeller‐Driven Car‐Like Robots With Amplitude and Rate Saturation Under Steering Fault‐Tolerant Control	14
Design and analysis of a wall‐climbing robot for water wall inspection of thermal power plants	14
Inverse Kinematics Solution and Application of a 5‐DoF Robotic Arm Based on an Improved Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm	14
Underwater multizonotope terrain‐aided navigation method with coarse map based on set‐membership filter	14
Safety Inspections and Gas Monitoring in Hazardous Mining Areas Shortly After Blasting Using Autonomous UAVs	14
Hybridization of ResNet with YOLO classifier for automated paddy leaf disease recognition: An optimized model	13
RumexWeeds: A grassland dataset for agricultural robotics	13
Lessons from robot‐assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force	13
Development of an Air Pulse Jet Robot for Efficient Dust Removal in Air‐Cooled Condensers Under Harsh Industrial Conditions	13
An Enhanced Navigation System With Predictive Motion Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in GNSS‐Attenuated Dynamic Urban Waterways	13
An online optimization escape entrapment strategy for planetary rovers based on Bayesian optimization	13
Lower Limb Exoskeletons, Application‐Centric Classifications: A Review	13
Robust High‐Order Sliding Mode Control for Collecting Objects by a Wheeled Space Rover With a Multi‐Articulated Arm	13
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A Map Segmentation Method Based on Image Processing for Robot Complete Coverage Operation	13
Tracking Mooring Lines of Floating Structures by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	13
Earthwork digital twin for teleoperation of an automated bulldozer in edge dumping	13
Target Localization and Pursuit With Networked Robotic Vehicles: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments	13
Generalizing minimum safe operating altitudes for fixed‐wing UAVs in real‐time	13
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Performance‐Oriented Understanding and Design of a Robotic Tadpole: Lower Energy Cost, Higher Speed	13
Underwater UXO detection using magnetometry on hovering AUVs	12
Geometry‐based flipper motion planning for articulated tracked robots traversing rough terrain in real‐time	12
A Machine Learning–Based Ergonomic Assessment of Wireless Hand Control System for Lower‐Limb Disabled Tractor Operators and Abled Female Agricultural Workers	12
Efficient Inverse Kinematics Solution for Industrial Robotic Arms: NR Iterative Based on IDBO‐BPNN Prediction	12
Robust control scheme based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator for a quadrotor with motor failures	12
Design and Development of an Intelligent Collision Avoidance Platform for a Teleoperated Dual Robotic Arm	12
Robot self‐calibration using actuated 3D sensors	12
A Novel Review on Quadruped Robots Design Variants, Gait Modulation, and Motion Planning Schemes	12
Morphlight Theory Inspired by Raptor: Arm‐Wing Cooperative Control Method and its Application	12
Pose‐graph underwater simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous monitoring and 3D reconstruction by means of optical and acoustic sensors	12
Complete coverage path planning for wheeled agricultural robots	12
Change Detection of Non‐Fixed Targets in Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Inspections Based on Style Transfer	12
UV‐C Disinfection Robots: A Systematic Review	12
Towards autonomous selective harvesting: A review of robot perception, robot design, motion planning and control	12
Adaptive‐Based Non‐Singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of a Three DOF Spatial Robotic Manipulator	12
Two novel approaches for solving the contradiction between efficient penetration and low recoil for the low‐velocity penetrator	12
A motion control framework for autonomous water sampling and swing‐free transportation of a multirotor UAV with a cable‐suspended mechanism	12
Autonomous Positioning for Mobile Vehicles Based on Visual‐Inertial Fusion in Challenging Dark Roadway Scenes	12
Terrain Classification for Planetary Rovers Using Wireless In‐Wheel Sensor Modules and Machine Learning	12
Optimizing Resource Allocation in Multi‐Robot Systems Through Game‐Theoretic Strategies: A Two‐Stage Model Approach	11
Optimal guidance track generation for precision agriculture: A review of coverage path planning techniques	11
A Novel Multinozzle Targeting Pollination Robot for Clustered Kiwifruit Flowers Based on Air–Liquid Dual‐Flow Spraying	11
Fusion‐Odometry‐Based Global Navigation in Closed Orchards	11
Formation Control and Experiment for Propeller‐Driven Car‐Like Robots With Amplitude and Rate Saturation Under Jointly Connected Topology	11
Optimization‐Based Geometric Enhancement and Motion Estimation for Non‐Cooperative Spacecrafts	11
Design and Analysis of Double‐Ring Robotic Coconut Tree Climber for Enhanced Performance	11
Efficient and multifidelity terrain modeling for 3D large‐scale and unstructured environments	11
Toward Universal Embodied Planning in Scalable Heterogeneous Field Robots Collaboration and Control	11
Design and Analysis of New Obstacle Avoidance Scheme With Dimensionality Reduction for Motion Planning of Redundant Robot Manipulators	10
Degeneracy‐Resistant LiDAR‐SLAM Algorithm Based on Geometric and Visual Features' Fusion	10
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Auxetic and Holonomic Mobile Robot for Enhanced Navigation in Constrained Terrains	10

Internal Model‐Based Anti‐Disturbances Low‐Level Control for Drones Considering Actuator Dynamics	10
Experimental Evaluation of an Observer‐Based Controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Reforestation Activities	10
Building information modeling‐based 3D reconstruction and coverage planning enabled automatic painting of interior walls using a novel painting robot in construction	10
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An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation	10
Learning‐based model predictive control for improved mobile robot path following using Gaussian processes and feedback linearization	9
Continuous Curvature Path Planning for Headland Coverage With Agricultural Robots	9
SensHB.Q: A Cost‐Effective Force‐Sensitive Handlebar to Control Omnidirectional Robots and Wheelchairs	9
Study of a Cable‐Driven Hip Swimming‐Assisted Exoskeleton Utilizing Adaptive Active Control Strategy	9
Mimic Grasping: A Modular and Flexible Programming‐by‐Demonstration Robotic Grasping Solution	9
4SWLR: A Switched System and Skid Steer Integrated Whole‐Body Control Framework for Wheeled‐Legged Robots	9
Autonomous Transportation Robots for Finished Vehicle Docking in RORO Logistics Terminal: Design, Control, and Implementation	9
Predictive Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Under‐Actuated Unmanned Surface Vehicle Under Disturbances via Reinforcement Learning	9
Dynamic State Feedback Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Switching Between Multiple Heading Movement Models	9
Development of an automated mobile robotic sprayer to prevent workers' exposure of agro‐chemicals inside polyhouse	9
High‐Throughput Robotic Phenotyping for Quantifying Tomato Disease Severity Enabled by Synthetic Data and Domain‐Adaptive Semantic Segmentation	9
RoboBoat: A robotic boat for 3D mapping of partially flooded underground sites	9
Position‐based fluid simulation for robotic injection sealing of pavement cracks	8
Challenges and Advances in Underwater Sonar Systems and AI‐Driven Signal Processing for Modern Naval Operations: A Systematic Review	8
Exploring the feasibility of autonomous forestry operations: Results from the first experimental unmanned machine	8
A simulation‐assisted point cloud segmentation neural network for human–robot interaction applications	8
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ASAH: An arc‐surface‐adsorption hexapod robot with a motion control scheme	8
A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection	8
VTOL Air Vehicle With Fixed‐Inclined Rotors and a Rudder Vane	8
Utilizing Photovoltaic Solar Panels for Real‐Time Localization and Speed Detection of Approaching Illuminated Objects in Humanoid Robots	8
Development of Spatial Path Tracking Algorithm and Controller for a 6‐SPS Stewart Parallel Manipulator: A Simulation and Experimental Study	8
Enhanced Unscented Kalman Filter With Time‐Varying Attenuation Factor for Cross‐Domain Unmanned Surface Vehicle/Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Tracking Using Time‐Direction of Arrival Measurements	8
Swarm Intelligence in Action: Particle Swarm Optimization and Rendezvous Algorithms for Swarm Robotics	8
Research on ORB–SLAM2 Deep‐Sea Visual Localization Technique Based on Image Enhancement	8
ADRC‐SMC‐based disturbance rejection depth‐tracking control of underactuated AUV	8
SimLiquid: A Simulation‐Based Liquid Perception Pipeline for Robot Liquid Manipulation	8
Soft Computing Techniques Applied to Adaptive Hybrid Navigation Methods for Tethered Robots in Dynamic Environments	8
Independent Soft Actor‐Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Cooperative Air Combat Maneuvering Decision‐Making	8
Optimization and evaluation of swing leg retraction for a hydraulic biped robot	8
Effectiveness of an Expendable Unmanned Ground Vehicle Stalling a Mechanized Infantry Company's Primary Combat Units—A Virtual Simulation Experiment	8
Control System for the Navigation of the Agricultural Robots: A Review	8
UAV‐based simultaneous localization and mapping in outdoor environments: A systematic scoping review	8
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Automatic Transport System for Replacing Disc Cutters in Tunnel Boring Machine	8
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs: A Quantitative Analysis and Review of Design, Embodiment, and Future Challenges	8
Path Tracking for Forestry Autonomous Mobile Platforms Based on Improved Snake Optimizer‐Pure Pursuit Algorithm	8
Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	8
Research on disturbance rejection motion control method of USV for UUV recovery	7
LMFFNet: Lightweight Multiscale Feature Fusion Network for Underwater Structural Defect Detection	7
Design and Development of an Automatic Soft Robotic Parallel Manipulator Device to Aid in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation	7
Deep learning with RGB and thermal images onboard a drone for monitoring operations	7
Back Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	7
FastFusion: Deep stereo‐LiDAR fusion for real‐time high‐precision dense depth sensing	7
Cover Image, Volume 39, Number 7, October 2022	7
Tractor Mounted Grapevine Pruning System	7
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Uncertainty‐aware LiDAR‐based localization for outdoor mobile robots	7
Fast Swimming Robot Fish Under Countercurrent, Complex Trajectory, and Heavy Load Environments	7
Position‐based force tracking adaptive impedance control strategy for robot grinding complex surfaces system	7
A Fully Automated Robotic System for Tuning Optimization of RF Cavity Filter	7
Development and Field Evaluation of a Radial Large‐Stroke Adaptive End‐Effector for Continuous Robotic Harvesting of Banana Fruits at Different Stalk Diameters	7
Bolster Spring Visual Servo Positioning Method Based on Depth Online Detection	7
Real‐time vibration monitoring and analysis of agricultural tractor drivers using an IoT‐based system	7
Corrigendum for “Fast and incremental loop closure detection with deep features and proximity graphs”	7
Cover Image, Volume 40, Number 8, December 2023	7
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A new method for calculating time‐varying torsional stiffness of RV reducers with variable loads and tooth modifications	7
Comparison of DSO and ORB‐SLAM3 in Low‐Light Environments With Auxiliary Lighting and Deep Learning Based Image Enhancing	7
A Path Planning Algorithm for UAV 3D Surface Inspection Based on Normal Vector Filtering and Integrated Viewpoint Evaluation	7
Recurrent Neural Network–Based Nonlinear Orientation Control of Redundant Stewart Platform	7
COAL: Robust Contrastive Learning‐Based Visual Navigation Framework	7
Development of Large Wingspan Flapping‐Wing Flying Robots With Improved Efficiency by Rigid‐Flexible Coupling Flapping Mechanism	7