OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 71. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Freetures: Localization in Signed Distance Function Maps	536
Table of Contents	255
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	200
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	197
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Publication Information	192
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	192
On Robust Context-Aware Navigation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles	190
Human-Robot Collaborative Tele-Grasping in Clutter With Five-Fingered Robotic Hands	187
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation	187
Dual Attention-Aided Cooperative Deep-Spatiotemporal-Feature-Extraction Network for Semi-Supervised Soft Sensing	181
3D Guidance Law for Flexible Target Enclosing With Inherent Safety	180
DINOv2-Based UAV Visual Self-Localization in Low-Altitude Urban Environments	164
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots	163
Intuitive Hand Positional Guidance Using McKibben-Based Surface Tactile Sensations to Shoulder and Elbow	161
Load Sharing in Distributed Collaborative Manipulation	159
Image-Based Visual Servoing for Enhanced Cooperation of Dual-Arm Manipulation	156
CaseVPR: Correlation-Aware Sequential Embedding for Sequence-to-Frame Visual Place Recognition	143
A Rotary Actuation Strategy for Altering Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscope Motion State	142
OVL-MAP: An Online Visual Language Map Approach for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments	140
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost	139
Anytime Planning for End-Effector Trajectory Tracking	134
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor	124
Aim My Robot: Precision Local Navigation to Any Object	123
Bio-Inspired Electrostatic Detection Method for Threat Perception in Autonomous Platforms	121
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	116

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	115
A Minimally Supervised Approach Based on Variational Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Robots	114
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition	114
iG-LIO: An Incremental GICP-Based Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-Inertial Odometry	110
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong	109
An Outlier Exposure Approach to Improve Visual Anomaly Detection Performance for Mobile Robots	108
Safety-Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction	108
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks	107
Online Centroidal Angular Momentum Reference Generation and Motion Optimization for Humanoid Push Recovery	103
Household Cloth Object Set: Fostering Benchmarking in Deformable Object Manipulation	103
High-Performance Morphing Wing for Large-Scale Bio-Inspired Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	102
MTABot: An Efficient Morphable Terrestrial-Aerial Robot With Two Transformable Wheels	101
Self-Supervised Moving Vehicle Detection From Audio-Visual Cues	96
Design-Modeling and Control of a Novel Wearable Exoskeleton for Lower-Limb Enhancement	96
Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	94
Device for Simultaneous Wind and Raindrop Energy Harvesting Operating on the Surface of Plant Leaves	94
MotionPerceiver: Real-Time Occupancy Forecasting for Embedded Systems	93
Modeling, Gait Sequence Design, and Control Architecture of BADGER Underground Robot	93
Recognition and Prediction of Surgical Actions Based on Online Robotic Tool Detection	91
An Effective Head-Based HRI for 6D Robotic Grasping Using Mixed Reality	86
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	86
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots	85
Computational Model of Robot Trust in Human Co-Worker for Physical Human-Robot Collaboration	85
A Real-Time, Semi-Autonomous Navigation Platform for Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy	85
PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain	84
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	84
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	82
Koopman-Based Robust Learning Control With Extended State Observer	82
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	81
Search3D: Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation	81
A Variable Sensing Range Electrical Impedance Tomography Sensor for Robot Electric Skins	80
Event-Frame-Inertial Odometry Using Point and Line Features Based on Coarse-to-Fine Motion Compensation	79
Kinematic Synthesis of a Serial Manipulator Using Gradient-Based Optimization on Lie Groups	76
Multiagent Trajectory Prediction With Difficulty-Guided Feature Enhancement Network	76
SMR-GA: Semantic Map Registration Under Large Perspective Differences Through Genetic Algorithm	75
Reinforcement Learning of Flexible Policies for Symbolic Instructions With Adjustable Mapping Specifications	75
On the Optimal Design of Underactuated Fingers Using Rolling Contact Joints	75
SALSA: Swift Adaptive Lightweight Self-Attention for Enhanced LiDAR Place Recognition	74
Efficient Safety-Enhanced Velocity Planning for Autonomous Driving With Chance Constraints	73
A Comparison of Imitation Learning Algorithms for Bimanual Manipulation	73
Toward Continuum Robot Tentacles for Lung Interventions: Exploring Folding Support Disks	73
Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots With Learned Residual Physics	73
Attitude-Estimation-Free GNSS and IMU Integration	73
Autonomous 3D Position Control for a Safe Single Motor Micro Aerial Vehicle	73
Hand It to Me Formally! Data-Driven Control for Human-Robot Handovers With Signal Temporal Logic	72
MoSS: Monocular Shape Sensing for Continuum Robots	71