Intelligent Service Robotics

Article	Citations
Trajectory tracking of mobile robots using hedge-agebras-based controllers	726
Autonomous gait switching method and experiments of a hexapod walking robot for Mars environment with multiple terrains	110
Editorial: Task planning and motion control problems of service robots in human-centered environments	86
Evaluating user performance and perceptions in a block-based visual programming language for socially assistive robots	28
Scan corner of context: a novel corner feature rotation-invariant descriptor for loop closure detection from 3D LiDAR data	27
Empowering robots with social cues: an initiative pose control framework for human–robot interaction	26
Fast marching firework method for multi-goal mobile robot path planning in complex obstacle maps	25
A Methodology for end user programming of ROS-based service robots using jigsaw metaphor and ontologies	25
Research on multi-AGV path planning based on map training and action replanning	23
A cross-task visuo-tactile representation using point clouds	22
Finite-time sliding mode Control strategies for perturbed input-constrained nonlinear bilateral teleoperation systems with variable-time communication delays	21
Research on AGV path planning in flexible job-shop scheduling problem based on multi-agent deep Q network	21
A collision-free path planning method for industrial robot manipulators considering safe human–robot interaction	18
Model-aided 3D shape and force estimation of continuum robots based on Cosserat rod theory and using a magnetic localization system	18
Improved seeker optimization algorithm-based reliable multi-robot path planning for intelligent storage system	17
Gait detection of lower limb exoskeleton robot integrating visual perception and geometric features	17
A finger-inspired pneumatic network actuator based on rigid-flexible coupling structure for soft robotic grippers	17
Adaptive RBF neural network-computed torque control for a pediatric gait exoskeleton system: an experimental study	17
R3T*-MOSafeRL($$\lambda $$): path planning of mobile robots in unknown dynamic environments	16
An efficient network for 3D point cloud moving object detection in autonomous driving environments	15
Event-based reconfiguration control for time-varying formation of robot swarms in narrow spaces	15
Grasping control using 2D and 3D visual integration for robotic prosthetic hand	15
Development of source seeking algorithm for mobile robots	15
Real-time path planning for autonomous vehicle based on teaching–learning-based optimization	15
A survey on maritime perception datasets and technologies for autonomous surface vessels	14

FruitTrackDB: a multi-sensor dataset for intelligent navigation in real orchard environments	14
Soft component technology and application for soft robotics	13
Personalized passive training control strategy for a lower limb rehabilitation robot with specified step lengths	13
Novel 3D chaotic quadrotor trajectories for infrastructure monitoring	13
HDFOS: path planning for heterogeneous truck-drone cooperative delivery and pickup services	13
Night-to-day thermal image translation for deep thermal place recognition	13
Effects of repetitive ROM exercise training using a patient robot with musculoskeletal symptoms	13
HAC-based adaptive combined pick-up path optimization strategy for intelligent warehouse	12
Hierarchical Topology Map with Explicit Corridor for global path planning of mobile robots	12
Acoustic analysis of ultrasonic air-borne transducer with concave structure	12
The robot and the nurse prepare for surgery: early insights into the impact of robot’s inner speech	12
Feature refinement with DBO: optimizing RFRC method for autonomous vehicle detection	11
Multirobot conflict coordination and dynamic obstacle avoidance cooperative path planning	11
Manufacture and development of Taban: a cute back-projected head social robot for educational purposes	11
6-DoF grasp pose estimation based on instance reconstruction	11
Path planning in dynamic structured environments using transformer-enabled twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient for mobile robots in simulation	11
Pas: a scale-invariant approach to maritime search and rescue object detection using preprocessing and attention scaling	11
Optimal two-wheeled self-balancing mobile robot strategy of navigation using adaptive fuzzy controller-based KD-SegNet	10
Slope-constrained global path planning for quadruped robots	10
Dynamic liquid volume estimation using optical tactile sensors and spiking neural network	10
Tactile object recognition in early phases of grasping using underactuated robotic hands	10
Intelligent robotic arm trajectory planning using improved classical Q-learning and LSTM	9
Posture stabilizing control of quadruped robot based on cart-inverted pendulum model	9
Temporal modeling for domain-invariant fault diagnosis in robotics digital twin systems	9
Cooperative push-grasping in clutter via deep reinforcement learning	8
Grasping Stability of a Robotic Gripper with Frictional Self-Locking Mechanism	8
Improving reinforcement learning based moving object grasping with trajectory prediction	8
Neuro-LQR control for swarm and synchronization of coaxial octocopters in unknown environment	8
The development of an optimal hedge algebras path following controller for Robotnik	8
Collaborative semantic mapping for updating the digital twin in controlled indoor environment	8
MORE: simultaneous multi-view 3D object recognition and pose estimation	7
Magnetorheological damper for vibration reduction in a robot arm	7
Autonomous vehicle lane-change maneuver accounting for emotion-induced driving behavior in other vehicles	7
Design and dynamic modeling of a balance rehabilitation cable (BaReCa) robot: integration with patients	7
Real-time autonomous navigation in palm tree environments using vision-based landmark detection and an integrated path planning and control framework	6
NMPC formation control for heterogeneous multi-air vehicles with obstacle avoidance and connectivity maintenance	6
Real-time monocular visual–inertial SLAM with structural constraints of line and point–line fusion	6
Handmaid: design and evaluation of a hand exoskeleton with active backdrive for neuromuscular rehabilitation	6
Analysis of impressions of robot by changing its motion and trajectory parameters for designing parameterized behaviors of home-service robots	6
Woa-fism planning hexapod robot various gaits	6
Modified type-2 fuzzy controller for intercollision avoidance of single and multi-humanoid robots in complex terrains	6
Direct RGB-D visual odometry with point features	6
Offline spatial–temporal actor-critic learning for robot crowd navigation without behavior regularization	6
Robots in healthcare as envisioned by care professionals	6
A novel multiple targets detection method for service robots in the indoor complex scenes	6
MSM: point cloud alignment algorithm through multi-scale feature fusion and cross-attention mechanism	5
Frontend and backend electronics achieving flexibility and scalability for tomographic tactile sensing	5
Kinematic modeling of PAM-based 3-UPS parallel robot module using string encoders	5
Indoor scene neural implicit 3D reconstruction with SO (3)-equivariant network	5
Robot motion planning using predictive trajectory of moving obstacles	5

Gait environments recognition using Gaussian process regression model-based CoP trajectory for wearable robot applications	5
Kinematics and stiffness analysis of a wheelchair-based cable-actuated ankle rehabilitation robot with flexure-based variable-stiffness devices	5
Time delay compensated disturbance observer-based sliding mode slave controller and neural network model for bilateral teleoperation system	5
A soft gripper driven by conical dielectric elastomer actuator to achieve displacement amplification and compliant grips	5
Occlusion-resilient pose estimation of textureless components in cluttered environment and its implementation in robotic bin-picking	5
Deep reinforcement learning-based autonomous navigation for quadcopter using PPO and improved grey wolf optimizer	5
Heterogeneous multi-robot system mission planning with cooperative replenishment through data-driven rendezvous point selection	5
Variable admittance control for door opening with a wheeled mobile manipulator considering ground obstacles	5
Low-cost environment-adaptive SLAM for bed-chair robots in complex indoor scenarios	5
Personal assistant robot using reinforcement learning: DARWIN-OP2 as a case study	5
A* algorithm based on adaptive expansion convolution for unmanned aerial vehicle path planning	4
Combined task and motion planning system for the service robot using hierarchical action decomposition	4
Real-time prediction of walking state and percent of gait cycle for robotic prosthetic leg using artificial neural network	4
Design and development of a haptic-enabled telerobotic system for improved ultrasonography	4
Development of a whole-body walking rehabilitation robot and power assistive method using EMG signals	4
Robotic furniture assembly: task abstraction, motion planning, and control	4
Imaging radar and LiDAR image translation for 3-DOF extrinsic calibration	4
Drone-robot to install aerial marker balls for power lines	4
Simple and effective strategies to pick up foods for a meal assistant robot integrated with an integrated spoon and chopstick mechanism	4
Four-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robots strategy of navigation using hybrid HPSO-GA-PID controller-based YOLO3D-CSSA network	4
A heuristic for task allocation and path planning of multiple tethered underwater robots considering workload balance	4
A dynamic threat model-based conflict resolution method for multiple mobile robots in constrained spaces	4
Sca-pose: category-level 6D pose estimation with adaptive shape prior based on CNN and graph convolution	4
Optimizing human–robot emotional interactions with Markov decision process	4
Execution and perception of upper limb exoskeleton for stroke patients: a systematic review	4
A survey on integration of large language models with intelligent robots	4
Trajectory planning and inverse kinematics solution of Kuka robot using COA along with pick and place application	4
Distance estimation with semantic segmentation and edge detection of surround view images	3
Enhanced resampling scheme for Monte Carlo localization	3
SLAM navigation algorithm for lightweight UAV based on vision-reference coupling	3
Exploring the impact of the uncanny valley effect on teenagers’ attitudes toward virtual characters and EFL reading comprehension skills	3
A multi-UGV coverage path planning method with reduced the number of turns for structured obstacle-enclosed area	3
Evaluation of a neuroadaptive admittance controller for ambulation through physical human–robot interaction	3
Sac-eprb: Soft Actor-Critic with Enhanced Prioritized Replay Buffer for UAV Navigation	3
Humanising robot-assisted navigation	3
On terrain traversability analysis in unstructured environments: recent advances in forest applications	3
Efficient multi-objective path planning for complex disaster environments: hierarchical target filtering and ranking optimization strategies	3
A novel cascade calibration method for robotic grinding system	3
Design and evaluation of hybrid upper limb exoskeleton considering human–robot interaction force	3
LiDAR odometry survey: recent advancements and remaining challenges	3
Research on robot path planning by integrating state-based decision-making A* algorithm and inertial dynamic window approach	3
Object-aware data association for the semantically constrained visual SLAM	3
Experimental investigation of a new type of driving concept for capsule robot	3
Multi-robot path planning using a hybrid dynamic window approach and modified chaotic neural oscillator-based hyperbolic gravitational search algorithm in a complex terrain	3
Real-time trajectory planning for collaborative robots using incremental multi-objective optimization	3
Remote object navigation for service robots using hierarchical knowledge graph in human-centered environments	3
Real-time semantic octree mapping under aerial-ground cooperative system	3
Monte Carlo localization based on off-line feature matching and improved particle swarm optimization for mobile robots	3
On automatic camera shooting systems via PTZ control and DNN-based visual sensing	3
Real-time recognition of human interactions from a single RGB-D camera for socially-aware robot navigation	3
Human-embodied drone interface for aerial manipulation: advantages and challenges	3
PCR-DAT: a new point cloud registration method for lidar inertial odometry via distance and Gauss distributed	3
Lmapping: tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping for degraded environments	3
Design exploration and kinematic validation of a transtibial prosthesis using a 2SPU-RU parallel mechanism	2
Multi-agent flocking with obstacle avoidance and safety distance preservation: a fuzzy potential-based approach	2
Admittance Control for Reducing Human Physical Effort in Robot Programming through Motion Guidance	2
Trust and care robots: philosophical considerations, ethical challenges, and viable options	2
Multirobot cooperative localization based on event-triggered mechanism	2
Human–robot interaction through joint robot planning with large language models	2
Socially acceptable sequential approaches to groups in dynamic environments	2
A survey on generative nonverbal facial behavior for highly realistic embodied agents	2
A gamified social robotics platform for intensive therapies in neurorehabilitation	2
Sliding mode controller for safe landing of a tiltrotor in one engine failure	2
A ROS-based distributed multi-robot localization and orientation strategy for heterogeneous robots	2
Dynamic modulation of multi-task priority for controlling redundancy insufficient robots	2
A novel adaptive keyframe selection method with multi-source joint constraints for visual SLAM	2
Research on high-precision positioning method of robot based on laser tracker	2
Improved sparrow search algorithm-based trajectory planning for combined movements of ankle rehabilitation robot	2
Development of an integrated estimation and predictive control framework for safe navigation in mobile robots for industrial environments	2
Reinforced bidirectional artificial muscles: enhancing force and stability for soft robotics	2
Detecting deformation of a soft cylindrical structure using piezoelectric sensors	2
Convolutional neural network-based deep Q-network (CNN-DQN) path planning method for mobile robots	2
A novel approach to design multi-input Hedge-Algebras-based controllers and applications in motion control of autonomous vehicles	2
A reinforcement learning approach for multi-goal motion planning of autonomous ground vehicles in cluttered environments	2
Design and architecture of a slender and flexible underwater robot	2
Dual-layer multi-robot path planning in narrow-lane environments under specific traffic policies	2
Memory-based soft actor–critic with prioritized experience replay for autonomous navigation	2
A self-adaptive safe A* algorithm for AGV in large-scale storage environment	2
MAP3F: a decentralized approach to multi-agent pathfinding and collision avoidance with scalable 1D, 2D, and 3D feature fusion	2
Time-energy optimization based on integrated model for multi-robot welding task planning	2

Actuator-level motion and contact episode learning and classification using adaptive resonance theory	2
Research on a RBF-based compliance control method of lower limb exoskeleton robots	2
Reward shaping of deep reinforcement learning algorithm for autonomous navigation in a structured environment	2
Design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of a light weight, and wearable cable driven ForeWrist exoskeleton robot for assistance and rehabilitation	2