OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 64. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Information for Authors	244
Table of Contents	226
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	211
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	207
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition	185
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping	177
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	170
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments	167
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions	145
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets	145
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	139
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation	133
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation	133
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots	132
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation	118
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	117
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion	105
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects	104
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry	104
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning	103
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions	102
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm	102
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$	101
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	100
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands	100

Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	98
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios	98
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study	93
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments	92
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study	91
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer	91
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments	89
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements	86
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	86
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	81
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	81
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	81
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research	79
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	79
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement	75
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation	75
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control	74
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics	74
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization	73
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection	72
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments	71
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation	71
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning	70
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance	70
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor	70
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery	69
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting	69
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration	68
Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission	68
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential	67
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction	67
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications	66
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration	66
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction	66
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation	66
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device	65
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots	65
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions	64
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies	64
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment	64
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design	64
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators	64
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance	64