OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 66. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Information for Authors	264
Table of Contents	234
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	216
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	214
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition	196
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	186
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping	186
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments	179
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets	149
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	145
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation	143
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation	142
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots	140
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	140
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry	127
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion	127
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects	125
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions	112
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$	110
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	107
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	107
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios	107
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study	105
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer	104
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments	104

ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study	102
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements	100
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	98
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	98
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	95
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	92
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research	92
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	92
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement	89
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control	88
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection	86
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance	86
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning	84
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor	82
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting	82
Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission	78
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential	77
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction	77
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device	76
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications	76
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment	75
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots	75
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions	75
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design	75
Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning	73
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path	73
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots	73
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies	73
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	73
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop	71
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions	71
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping	70
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots	70
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study	69
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy	68
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning	68
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching	68
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost	66
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber	66
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block	66
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage	66