OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 67. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception	515
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter	242
DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor With Application to In-Hand Manipulation	192
A General Framework for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning	143
Multi-Sensor Guided Hand Gesture Recognition for a Teleoperated Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network	131
What the Constant Velocity Model Can Teach Us About Pedestrian Motion Prediction	129
An Efficient Sampling-Based Method for Online Informative Path Planning in Unknown Environments	126
Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Connected Vehicle Platoons: An Adaptive Leader-Following Approach	125
Deep Neural Network Approach in Robot Tool Dynamics Identification for Bilateral Teleoperation	124
Towards High-Performance Solid-State-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping	123
A Dexterous Soft Robotic Hand for Delicate In-Hand Manipulation	122
Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection	122
EGO-Planner: An ESDF-Free Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotors	122
DOOR-SLAM: Distributed, Online, and Outlier Resilient SLAM for Robotic Teams	119
Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environments Through Globally Guided Reinforcement Learning	116
Lio-A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications	115
Nonlinear MPC for Collision Avoidance and Control of UAVs With Dynamic Obstacles	113
On an Improved State Parametrization for Soft Robots With Piecewise Constant Curvature and Its Use in Model Based Control	110
An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research	110
Online Trajectory Generation With Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Motion Planning	110
CNN-Based Lidar Point Cloud De-Noising in Adverse Weather	108
Learning Robust Control Policies for End-to-End Autonomous Driving From Data-Driven Simulation	107
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors	107
DeepGait: Planning and Control of Quadrupedal Gaits Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	106
BADGR: An Autonomous Self-Supervised Learning-Based Navigation System	105

Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments	105
Cross-View Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings	105
Distributed Proprioception of 3D Configuration in Soft, Sensorized Robots via Deep Learning	101
DynaSLAM II: Tightly-Coupled Multi-Object Tracking and SLAM	99
R $^2$ LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping	97
CNN Based Road User Detection Using the 3D Radar Cube	96
Spatiotemporal Relationship Reasoning for Pedestrian Intent Prediction	96
Real-Time Fusion Network for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation Incorporating Unexpected Obstacle Detection for Road-Driving Images	96
SLOAM: Semantic Lidar Odometry and Mapping for Forest Inventory	95
Visual-Inertial Mapping With Non-Linear Factor Recovery	93
A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation	92
A Teleoperation Framework for Mobile Robots Based on Shared Control	92
TLIO: Tight Learned Inertial Odometry	91
Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data	90
Safe and Fast Tracking on a Robot Manipulator: Robust MPC and Neural Network Control	89
DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios	89
BALM: Bundle Adjustment for Lidar Mapping	89
RLBench: The Robot Learning Benchmark & Learning Environment	87
3D-MiniNet: Learning a 2D Representation From Point Clouds for Fast and Efficient 3D LIDAR Semantic Segmentation	85
Forecasting Trajectory and Behavior of Road-Agents Using Spectral Clustering in Graph-LSTMs	85
Self-Supervised Learning of State Estimation for Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects	84
ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-Based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building	84
Grasping in the Wild: Learning 6DoF Closed-Loop Grasping From Low-Cost Demonstrations	83
Ground-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving	82
Interactive Gibson Benchmark: A Benchmark for Interactive Navigation in Cluttered Environments	81
FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure and Hierarchical Planning	81
A Robust UAV System for Operations in a Constrained Environment	79
Robot Navigation in Crowds by Graph Convolutional Networks With Attention Learned From Human Gaze	78
Learning Force Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks With Rigid Position-Controlled Robots	76
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation With Fast Attention	76
Control Oriented Modeling of Soft Robots: The Polynomial Curvature Case	75
Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track	73
Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey	71
Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion	71
Combining Events and Frames Using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction	71
Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?	70
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time	70
Augmented LiDAR Simulator for Autonomous Driving	70
DeepFactors: Real-Time Probabilistic Dense Monocular SLAM	69
High-Speed Autonomous Drifting With Deep Reinforcement Learning	69
BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation	68
Structure-SLAM: Low-Drift Monocular SLAM in Indoor Environments	67
LQR-Assisted Whole-Body Control of a Wheeled Bipedal Robot With Kinematic Loops	67
MinneApple: A Benchmark Dataset for Apple Detection and Segmentation	67
Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones	67