OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 58. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter	369
EGO-Planner: An ESDF-Free Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotors	183
DynaSLAM II: Tightly-Coupled Multi-Object Tracking and SLAM	165
Multi-Sensor Guided Hand Gesture Recognition for a Teleoperated Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network	155
Towards High-Performance Solid-State-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping	154
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors	145
DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios	141
Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments	140
BADGR: An Autonomous Self-Supervised Learning-Based Navigation System	139
R $^2$ LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping	137
FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure and Hierarchical Planning	121
Improving Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction Using Traffic States on Interactive Driving Scenarios	120
Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data	119
ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-Based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building	117
BALM: Bundle Adjustment for Lidar Mapping	114
A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation	113
Faster-LIO: Lightweight Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertial Odometry Using Parallel Sparse Incremental Voxels	108
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way	105
M2DGR: A Multi-Sensor and Multi-Scenario SLAM Dataset for Ground Robots	99
BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation	97
Multi-Class Road User Detection With 3+1D Radar in the View-of-Delft Dataset	96
Ground-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving	95
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation With Fast Attention	94
V2X-Sim: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving	93
Unified Multi-Modal Landmark Tracking for Tightly Coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry	91

Combining Events and Frames Using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction	89
Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey	89
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time	88
Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones	88
Stepwise Goal-Driven Networks for Trajectory Prediction	85
Integrated Task Assignment and Path Planning for Capacitated Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery	84
Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World	83
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking	81
Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion	80
Direct LiDAR Odometry: Fast Localization With Dense Point Clouds	80
Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation With Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor	79
Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization	78
Elastica: A Compliant Mechanics Environment for Soft Robotic Control	77
OverlapTransformer: An Efficient and Yaw-Angle-Invariant Transformer Network for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition	76
Autonomous UAV Exploration of Dynamic Environments Via Incremental Sampling and Probabilistic Roadmap	76
Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning	76
LaneAF: Robust Multi-Lane Detection With Affinity Fields	73
Object-Independent Human-to-Robot Handovers Using Real Time Robotic Vision	72
UniFuse: Unidirectional Fusion for 360° Panorama Depth Estimation	69
Decentralized Multi-Agent Pursuit Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	68
Path Planning With Automatic Seam Extraction Over Point Cloud Models for Robotic Arc Welding	65
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong	65
Air-to-Air Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs: An Experimental Evaluation of Deep Learning	63
Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors	63
DM-VIO: Delayed Marginalization Visual-Inertial Odometry	62
Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints	62
Concurrent Training of a Control Policy and a State Estimator for Dynamic and Robust Legged Locomotion	61
Liquid-Metal Magnetic Soft Robot With Reprogrammable Magnetization and Stiffness	61
DiSCO: Differentiable Scan Context With Orientation	60
LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments	60
Intensity-SLAM: Intensity Assisted Localization and Mapping for Large Scale Environment	60
Deep Compression for Dense Point Cloud Maps	59
Are We Ready for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Inland Waterways? The USVInland Multisensor Dataset and Benchmark	59
Run Your Visual-Inertial Odometry on NVIDIA Jetson: Benchmark Tests on a Micro Aerial Vehicle	58
SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-Based Hierarchical Place Recognition	58
Reinforcement Learned Distributed Multi-Robot Navigation With Reciprocal Velocity Obstacle Shaped Rewards	58
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching	58