IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 4. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter358
EGO-Planner: An ESDF-Free Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotors175
DynaSLAM II: Tightly-Coupled Multi-Object Tracking and SLAM159
Towards High-Performance Solid-State-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping151
Multi-Sensor Guided Hand Gesture Recognition for a Teleoperated Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network150
Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environments Through Globally Guided Reinforcement Learning150
A Dexterous Soft Robotic Hand for Delicate In-Hand Manipulation141
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors140
Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments139
Nonlinear MPC for Collision Avoidance and Control of UAVs With Dynamic Obstacles138
BADGR: An Autonomous Self-Supervised Learning-Based Navigation System136
R $^2$ LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping134
Lio-A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications126
DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios120
FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure and Hierarchical Planning119
ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-Based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building115
Improving Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction Using Traffic States on Interactive Driving Scenarios115
Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data113
BALM: Bundle Adjustment for Lidar Mapping113
Real-Time Fusion Network for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation Incorporating Unexpected Obstacle Detection for Road-Driving Images113
TLIO: Tight Learned Inertial Odometry111
A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation109
Faster-LIO: Lightweight Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertial Odometry Using Parallel Sparse Incremental Voxels103
3D-MiniNet: Learning a 2D Representation From Point Clouds for Fast and Efficient 3D LIDAR Semantic Segmentation97
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way94
Ground-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving93
M2DGR: A Multi-Sensor and Multi-Scenario SLAM Dataset for Ground Robots92
Learning Force Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks With Rigid Position-Controlled Robots91
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation With Fast Attention91
Multi-Class Road User Detection With 3+1D Radar in the View-of-Delft Dataset90
BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation90
Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?87
Unified Multi-Modal Landmark Tracking for Tightly Coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry87
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time86
Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey85
Combining Events and Frames Using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction85
Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones82
Structure-SLAM: Low-Drift Monocular SLAM in Indoor Environments82
Stepwise Goal-Driven Networks for Trajectory Prediction81
V2X-Sim: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving81
Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion80
Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World78
Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization78
Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation With Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor78
Elastica: A Compliant Mechanics Environment for Soft Robotic Control77
Direct LiDAR Odometry: Fast Localization With Dense Point Clouds76
Integrated Task Assignment and Path Planning for Capacitated Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery76
Efficient Sampling-Based Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning With Application to Autonomous Driving73
Autonomous UAV Exploration of Dynamic Environments Via Incremental Sampling and Probabilistic Roadmap72
Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning72
TiltDrone: A Fully-Actuated Tilting Quadrotor Platform72
Don’t Forget The Past: Recurrent Depth Estimation from Monocular Video72
LaneAF: Robust Multi-Lane Detection With Affinity Fields71
Object-Independent Human-to-Robot Handovers Using Real Time Robotic Vision71
OverlapTransformer: An Efficient and Yaw-Angle-Invariant Transformer Network for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition70
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking69
Decentralized Multi-Agent Pursuit Using Deep Reinforcement Learning68
UniFuse: Unidirectional Fusion for 360° Panorama Depth Estimation67
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Local Planning of a Ground Vehicle in Unknown Rough Terrain66
Towards the Long-Endurance Flight of an Insect-Inspired, Tailless, Two-Winged, Flapping-Wing Flying Robot66
Probabilistic Crowd GAN: Multimodal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Using a Graph Vehicle-Pedestrian Attention Network64
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong63
Perceptive Locomotion in Rough Terrain – Online Foothold Optimization62
Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Control With Stability Guarantee62
Liquid-Metal Magnetic Soft Robot With Reprogrammable Magnetization and Stiffness61
Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors61
Air-to-Air Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs: An Experimental Evaluation of Deep Learning61
DM-VIO: Delayed Marginalization Visual-Inertial Odometry59
Intensity-SLAM: Intensity Assisted Localization and Mapping for Large Scale Environment59
Are We Ready for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Inland Waterways? The USVInland Multisensor Dataset and Benchmark59
Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints59
Concurrent Training of a Control Policy and a State Estimator for Dynamic and Robust Legged Locomotion58
Run Your Visual-Inertial Odometry on NVIDIA Jetson: Benchmark Tests on a Micro Aerial Vehicle58
Deep Compression for Dense Point Cloud Maps57
ALPHRED: A Multi-Modal Operations Quadruped Robot for Package Delivery Applications57
GA-Nav: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments56
Reinforcement Learned Distributed Multi-Robot Navigation With Reciprocal Velocity Obstacle Shaped Rewards56
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching56
DiSCO: Differentiable Scan Context With Orientation56
Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo Sport Using Deep Reinforcement Learning56
SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-Based Hierarchical Place Recognition55
Magnetic Control of a Steerable Guidewire Under Ultrasound Guidance Using Mobile Electromagnets55
LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments55
Perceptive Model Predictive Control for Continuous Mobile Manipulation55
Path Planning With Automatic Seam Extraction Over Point Cloud Models for Robotic Arc Welding55
Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Robot Collisions Without Joint Torque Sensors55
The ARCHES Space-Analogue Demonstration Mission: Towards Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Robots for Collaborative Scientific Sampling in Planetary Exploration54
Automatic Shape Control of Deformable Wires Based on Model-Free Visual Servoing53
Interaction-Aware Motion Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Multiple Model Kalman Filtering Scheme53
Learning Variable Impedance Control for Contact Sensitive Tasks53
RGGNet: Tolerance Aware LiDAR-Camera Online Calibration With Geometric Deep Learning and Generative Model52
SE-ResUNet: A Novel Robotic Grasp Detection Method52
OV$^{2}$SLAM: A Fully Online and Versatile Visual SLAM for Real-Time Applications52
Learning Variable Impedance Control via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Force-Related Tasks52
Effect of Cognitive Fatigue, Operator Sex, and Robot Assistance on Task Performance Metrics, Workload, and Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration52
Model-Based Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Flight With Suspended Payloads52
UFOMap: An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework That Embraces the Unknown52
A Model-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Force and Shape Estimation in Soft Robotics52
Keypoints-Based Deep Feature Fusion for Cooperative Vehicle Detection of Autonomous Driving51
Vision-Based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments51
TACTO: A Fast, Flexible, and Open-Source Simulator for High-Resolution Vision-Based Tactile Sensors51
Efficient Trajectory Planning for Multiple Non-Holonomic Mobile Robots via Prioritized Trajectory Optimization51
Multimodal Deep Generative Models for Trajectory Prediction: A Conditional Variational Autoencoder Approach51
OmniDet: Surround View Cameras Based Multi-Task Visual Perception Network for Autonomous Driving51
WareVision: CNN Barcode Detection-Based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Warehouse Stocktaking51
Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotor Fault-Tolerant Control51
HD Map Update for Autonomous Driving With Crowdsourced Data50
Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Motion Planning With Temporal Logic49
Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events49
Data–Driven Disturbance Observers for Estimating External Forces on Soft Robots49
Design of the High-Payload Flapping Wing Robot E-Flap48
Socially and Contextually Aware Human Motion and Pose Forecasting48
Adaptive Learning Attention Network for Underwater Image Enhancement48
Hybrid Systems Differential Dynamic Programming for Whole-Body Motion Planning of Legged Robots48
Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results47
DeepFusionMOT: A 3D Multi-Object Tracking Framework Based on Camera-LiDAR Fusion With Deep Association47
Multi-GAT: A Graphical Attention-Based Hierarchical Multimodal Representation Learning Approach for Human Activity Recognition47
GPR-RCNN: An Algorithm of Subsurface Defect Detection for Airport Runway Based on GPR47
Generation of GelSight Tactile Images for Sim2Real Learning47
A Supernumerary Robotic Leg Powered by Magnetorheological Actuators to Assist Human Locomotion46
Human-Centered Collaborative Robots With Deep Reinforcement Learning46
Model-Free Safety-Critical Control for Robotic Systems46
Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control With Differentiable Simulation46
LOCUS 2.0: Robust and Computationally Efficient Lidar Odometry for Real-Time 3D Mapping46
Efficient Learning of Goal-Oriented Push-Grasping Synergy in Clutter46
Efficient and Probabilistic Adaptive Voxel Mapping for Accurate Online LiDAR Odometry46
A Sim-to-Real Pipeline for Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Cluttered Rough Terrain45
A Control Barrier Function Approach for Maximizing Performance While Fulfilling to ISO/TS 15066 Regulations45
Large-Scale Autonomous Flight With Real-Time Semantic SLAM Under Dense Forest Canopy45
Panoster: End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds45
Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning45
Non-Gaussian Chance-Constrained Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Under Agent Uncertainty45
Autonomous Tissue Retraction in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery – A Feasibility Study45
UV-SLAM: Unconstrained Line-Based SLAM Using Vanishing Points for Structural Mapping45
Combining Speed and Separation Monitoring With Power and Force Limiting for Safe Collaborative Robotics Applications45
Semantic Histogram Based Graph Matching for Real-Time Multi-Robot Global Localization in Large Scale Environment45
Learning Open-World Object Proposals Without Learning to Classify45
Socially Compliant Robot Navigation in Crowded Environment by Human Behavior Resemblance Using Deep Reinforcement Learning44
A Lifelong Learning Approach to Mobile Robot Navigation44
LiDAR SLAM With Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment44
Do We Need to Compensate for Motion Distortion and Doppler Effects in Spinning Radar Navigation?44
Visual Servoing of a Cable-Driven Soft Robot Manipulator With Shape Feature44
Monocular 3D Detection With Geometric Constraint Embedding and Semi-Supervised Training44
Goal-Driven Autonomous Exploration Through Deep Reinforcement Learning44
MLPD: Multi-Label Pedestrian Detector in Multispectral Domain43
Keypoint Matching for Point Cloud Registration Using Multiplex Dynamic Graph Attention Networks43
Multi-Agent Motion Planning From Signal Temporal Logic Specifications43
A Multi-Resolution Frontier-Based Planner for Autonomous 3D Exploration43
Automatic Labeling to Generate Training Data for Online LiDAR-Based Moving Object Segmentation43
Robust Three-Dimensional Shape Sensing for Flexible Endoscopic Surgery Using Multi-Core FBG Sensors43
DiversityGAN: Diversity-Aware Vehicle Motion Prediction via Latent Semantic Sampling43
Where to go Next: Learning a Subgoal Recommendation Policy for Navigation in Dynamic Environments43
PLF-VINS: Real-Time Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM With Point-Line Fusion and Parallel-Line Fusion42
BVMatch: Lidar-Based Place Recognition Using Bird's-Eye View Images42
Tendon-Driven Soft Robotic Gripper for Blackberry Harvesting42
Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception With Graph Neural Networks42
TransCG: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset for Transparent Object Depth Completion and a Grasping Baseline42
Sensing and Control of a Multi-Joint Soft Wearable Robot for Upper-Limb Assistance and Rehabilitation41
Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning41
Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Underwater Navigation41
Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Localization, Grasping and Precise Placement of Construction Material in a Semi-Structured Environment41
Towards Better Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Vision: Multi-Angle Feature Aggregation and Contour Supervision41
Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads With MAVs Using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensing41
Autonomous Driving Trajectory Optimization With Dual-Loop Iterative Anchoring Path Smoothing and Piecewise-Jerk Speed Optimization40
Lightweight 3-D Localization and Mapping for Solid-State LiDAR40
Multi-Scale Interaction for Real-Time LiDAR Data Segmentation on an Embedded Platform40
Advantages of Bilinear Koopman Realizations for the Modeling and Control of Systems With Unknown Dynamics40
Learning-Based Balance Control of Wheel-Legged Robots40
“Good Robot!”: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Tasks with Sim to Real Transfer40
Learnable Online Graph Representations for 3D Multi-Object Tracking40
Toward Gait Symmetry Enhancement via a Cable-Driven Exoskeleton Powered by Series Elastic Actuators40
Optimal Cooperative Maneuver Planning for Multiple Nonholonomic Robots in a Tiny Environment via Adaptive-Scaling Constrained Optimization40
PTP: Parallelized Tracking and Prediction With Graph Neural Networks and Diversity Sampling40
Koopman-Based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator Under Variable Loading Conditions39
When Transformer Meets Robotic Grasping: Exploits Context for Efficient Grasp Detection39
A Magnetic Continuum Robot With Multi-Mode Control Using Opposite-Magnetized Magnets39
RINet: Efficient 3D Lidar-Based Place Recognition Using Rotation Invariant Neural Network39
DynaVINS: A Visual-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Environments39
Pose Refinement Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition39
DenseLiDAR: A Real-Time Pseudo Dense Depth Guided Depth Completion Network39
Learning a State Representation and Navigation in Cluttered and Dynamic Environments39
Multi-Robot Active Sensing and Environmental Model Learning With Distributed Gaussian Process39
Design and Control of a Highly Redundant Rigid-flexible Coupling Robot to Assist the COVID-19 Oropharyngeal-Swab Sampling39
Relative Position Estimation in Multi-Agent Systems Using Attitude-Coupled Range Measurements39
Predictive Locomotion Mode Recognition and Accurate Gait Phase Estimation for Hip Exoskeleton on Various Terrains38
Toward Deep Generalization of Peripheral EMG-Based Human-Robot Interfacing: A Hybrid Explainable Solution for NeuroRobotic Systems38
Design of a 3D-Printed Soft Robotic Hand With Integrated Distributed Tactile Sensing38
Synthetic Biological Signals Machine-Generated by GPT-2 Improve the Classification of EEG and EMG Through Data Augmentation38
A Soft Robotic Gripper With an Active Palm and Reconfigurable Fingers for Fully Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation38
DiSCo-SLAM: Distributed Scan Context-Enabled Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM With Two-Stage Global-Local Graph Optimization38
Joint Plant Instance Detection and Leaf Count Estimation for In-Field Plant Phenotyping38
Hysteresis Modeling of Robotic Catheters Based on Long Short-Term Memory Network for Improved Environment Reconstruction38
Relative Position Estimation Between Two UWB Devices With IMUs38
Underactuated Motion Planning and Control for Jumping With Wheeled-Bipedal Robots38
Path Planning for UGVs Based on Traversability Hybrid A*38
Cooperative Comfortable-Driving at Signalized Intersections for Connected and Automated Vehicles38
Adaptive Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer Based Robust Control for Robot Manipulators Towards Assembly Assistance38
Bilateral Teleoperation With Adaptive Impedance Control for Contact Tasks37
Topology Aware Object-Level Semantic Mapping Towards More Robust Loop Closure37
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance37
Power Line Inspection Tasks With Multi-Aerial Robot Systems Via Signal Temporal Logic Specifications37
SO-SLAM: Semantic Object SLAM With Scale Proportional and Symmetrical Texture Constraints37
Learning Interaction-Aware Trajectory Predictions for Decentralized Multi-Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments37
CPG-RL: Learning Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion37
Real-Time Neural MPC: Deep Learning Model Predictive Control for Quadrotors and Agile Robotic Platforms37
Adaptive CPG-Based Gait Planning With Learning-Based Torque Estimation and Control for Exoskeletons36
Edge Computing in 5G for Drone Navigation: What to Offload?36
Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Helical Microrobots36
Aerial Manipulator Pushing a Movable Structure Using a DOB-Based Robust Controller36
BLT Gripper: An Adaptive Gripper With Active Transition Capability Between Precise Pinch and Compliant Grasp36
Bi-Directional Domain Adaptation for Sim2Real Transfer of Embodied Navigation Agents36
Multimodal Safety-Critical Scenarios Generation for Decision-Making Algorithms Evaluation35
Imitation Learning Based on Bilateral Control for Human–Robot Cooperation35
A Global-Local Coupling Two-Stage Path Planning Method for Mobile Robots35
Learning Topology From Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Depth Completion35
An Overall Configuration Planning Method of Continuum Hyper-Redundant Manipulators Based on Improved Artificial Potential Field Method35
Towards Fully Autonomous Ultrasound Scanning Robot With Imitation Learning Based on Clinical Protocols35
Design, Fabrication, and Hysteresis Modeling of Soft Microtubule Artificial Muscle (SMAM) for Medical Applications35
On the Implementation of Behavior Trees in Robotics35
Model-Adaptive High-Speed Collision Detection for Serial-Chain Robot Manipulators35
Adaptive Robust Kernels for Non-Linear Least Squares Problems35
Bird’s-Eye-View Panoptic Segmentation Using Monocular Frontal View Images35
Bayesian and Neural Inference on LSTM-Based Object Recognition From Tactile and Kinesthetic Information34
Finite-Horizon LQR Control of Quadrotors on $SE_2(3)$34
SegContrast: 3D Point Cloud Feature Representation Learning Through Self-Supervised Segment Discrimination34
Learning-Based Bias Correction for Time Difference of Arrival Ultra-Wideband Localization of Resource-Constrained Mobile Robots34
Dynamic End Effector Tracking With an Omnidirectional Parallel Aerial Manipulator34
The Hilti SLAM Challenge Dataset34
Self-Attention Based Visual-Tactile Fusion Learning for Predicting Grasp Outcomes34
RRT*-Based Path Planning for Continuum Arms34
Hybrid Adaptive Control Strategy for Continuum Surgical Robot Under External Load34
A Snake-Inspired Multi-Segmented Magnetic Soft Robot Towards Medical Applications34
MAMMOBOT: A Miniature Steerable Soft Growing Robot for Early Breast Cancer Detection34
Machine Learning Model Comparisons of User Independent & Dependent Intent Recognition Systems for Powered Prostheses34
Large-Scale Exploration of Cave Environments by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles34
SuctionNet-1Billion: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Suction Grasping34
Deep Koopman Operator With Control for Nonlinear Systems34
Taxim: An Example-Based Simulation Model for GelSight Tactile Sensors34
Decoding HD-EMG Signals for Myoelectric Control - How Small Can the Analysis Window Size be?34
Volumetric Propagation Network: Stereo-LiDAR Fusion for Long-Range Depth Estimation33
Optimization-Based Framework for Excavation Trajectory Generation33
Fully 3D-Printed Modular Pipe-Climbing Robot33
Fast and Safe Trajectory Planning: Solving the Cobot Performance/Safety Trade-Off in Human-Robot Shared Environments33
Real-Time Dynamics of Cable-Driven Continuum Robots Considering the Cable Constraint and Friction Effect33
Efficient LiDAR Odometry for Autonomous Driving33
Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Transportation System Based on Hierarchical Quadratic Programming33
KNODE-MPC: A Knowledge-Based Data-Driven Predictive Control Framework for Aerial Robots33
Event-Based Visual Place Recognition With Ensembles of Temporal Windows33
Modeling, Calibration, and Evaluation of a Tendon-Actuated Planar Parallel Continuum Robot33
A 3D Printed Soft Robotic Gripper With a Variable Stiffness Enabled by a Novel Positive Pressure Layer Jamming Technology33
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