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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	323
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	248
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	217
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments	207
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets	197
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	172
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots	166
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion	157
Information for Authors	156
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction	152
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions	149
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System	139
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal	134
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands	126
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	125
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios	121
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study	119
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study	118
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements	117
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	114
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	113
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	112
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot	107
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection	107
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	106

Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment	102
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots	102
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation	101
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting	100
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map	94
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies	94
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning	94
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes	94
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle	91
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation	90
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces	89
BagIt! An Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation of Fabric Bags for Object Bagging	89
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning	86
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance	84
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras	84
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	83
Towards Equilibrium Coordination With Stein Variational Game	83
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	81
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction	81
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving	80
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments	80
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation	79
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation	79
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	78
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception	78
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping	77
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning	74
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives	73
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance	72
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation	71
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems	71
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation	70
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness	70
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning	70
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer	69
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$	69
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy	68
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions	68
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks	68
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery	67
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot	67
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	67