OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 72. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	364
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	283
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	235
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	235
Information for Authors	224
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction	217
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System	182
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal	175
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands	174
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	172
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	160
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	158
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	157
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications	145
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation	144
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	138
Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Tracking	136
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots	133
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions	132
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments	130
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	130
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes	127
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning	124
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	118
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction	118

Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	117
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	113
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems	112
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning	110
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness	107
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy	106
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	102
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments	102
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution	100
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry	99
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator	97
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation	97
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation	96
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish	95
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path	94
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy	93
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning	89
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning	88
Implementation and Evaluation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot	87
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions	87
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery	87
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop	86
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation	85
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement	85
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks	85
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition	85
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot	83
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching	82
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety	82
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions	81
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions	81
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage	80
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning	77
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction	77
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber	77
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction	76
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion	76
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design	76
SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle	75
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators	74
BagIt! An Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation of Fabric Bags for Object Bagging	73
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics	73
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model	73
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements	73
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation	73
Memory-Efficient Voxelized Renderable Neural 3D Spatial Representation for Vision-Based Robotics	73
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation	72
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost	72