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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Table of Contents439
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information317
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation278
Information for Authors230
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction197
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal182
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information174
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift167
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation166
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry158
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation144
Implementation and Evaluation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot142
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement142
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor141
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop135
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer132
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives130
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors124
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions123
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments121
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes107
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control102
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments100
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)100
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems98
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning97
Real-Time Communication Relay Planning With a Low-Complexity Network Quality Prediction Model in Dynamic Indoor Missions94
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block94
L-BIRD: Lightweight Bio-Inspired Rotary-Wing Drone94
Towards Equilibrium Coordination With Stein Variational Game93
Customize-Your-Joy Hand: A User-Oriented, Cost-Effective 22-DOF Platform for Future Human-Robot Community92
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection90
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study90
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition89
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety89
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks89
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching87
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions87
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage86
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning83
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion82
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements81
Memory-Efficient Voxelized Renderable Neural 3D Spatial Representation for Vision-Based Robotics78
BagIt! An Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation of Fabric Bags for Object Bagging78
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance77
HPGS-SLAM: Hybrid Point-Guided Dense Visual SLAM With Online Mapping via Gaussian Splatting77
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions77
G-MAPP: GPU-accelerated Multi-Agent Planning and Perception for Reactive Motion Generation77
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation75
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution75
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle73
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$72
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects72
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots72
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System71
SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle70
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies70
ShapeAfford: Reconstructing 3D Shape With Manipulation Affordance via Geometry-Affordance Synergy69
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion69
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism69
Variable Transformation for sEMG Pre-Processing: Applications and Analysis in Predicting Human Upper Limb Motion Intentions68
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study67
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction67
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments67
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning67
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential66
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets66
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation66
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting66
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots64
Deformable Cluster Manipulation via Whole-Arm Policy Learning64
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics63
CoCoPlan: Adaptive Coordination and Communication for Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic and Unknown Environments63
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots62
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information60
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials60
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments60
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps60
Discrete Cosserat Static Model-Based Control of Soft Manipulator59
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands59
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy59
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance59
Winfree-Model-Type Synchronization Control for Swimming Modular Robot Through Physical Interaction59
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving59
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness58
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation58
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction58
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction58
I2KEN: Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain Knowledge Enhancement Network for Lifelong Loop Closure Detection57
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions57
Warm-Starting Collision-Free Model Predictive Control With Object-Centric Diffusion57
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation57
A Visual Reinforcement Learning-Based Separate Primitive Policy for Peg-in-Hole Tasks56
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation56
Fast Task Planning With Neuro-Symbolic Relaxation56
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path56
Continuous Gaussian Process Pre-Optimization for Asynchronous Event-Inertial Odometry55
Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region55
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot54
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator54
A sEMG-Based Active-Passive Fusion Rehabilitation Method for Ankle Fracture Rehabilitation Robot after Surgery54
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots54
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation54
In-Hand Manipulation of the Connector for Cable Installation54
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping53
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model53
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control53
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation53
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators53
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications53
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map53
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception53
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber52
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration52
DUFOMap: Efficient Dynamic Awareness Mapping52
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning52
Rethinking Transparent Object Grasping: Depth Completion With Monocular Depth Estimation and Instance Mask52
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment52
LED Pouch Motor: Wavelength Selective Wireless Actuation of Dyed Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change Actuators Using LEDs51
Neuro-Symbolic Generation of Explanations for Robot Policies With Weighted Signal Temporal Logic51
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios50
VLM-SFD: VLM-Assisted Siamese Flow Diffusion Framework for Dual-Arm Cooperative Manipulation50
Personalized Wearable Ankle Robot Using Modular Additive Manufacturing Design50
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments49
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives49
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies49
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research49
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions49
Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Tracking49
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions49
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation49
Semantic-Aware Behavior Optimization With Safety Reinforcement Feedback for Language-Conditioned Manipulation48
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking48
Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos48
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras47
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment47
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning47
Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness47
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization47
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study47
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks47
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design47
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost47
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces47
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch47
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning46
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning46
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving46
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot46
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots With Mobile Bases via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning46
Hybrid-Driven Disc-Shaped Autonomous Underwater Vehicle With High Maneuverability and Gliding Capability: Design and Experiments46
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot46
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery46
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning46
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents46
VECtor: A Versatile Event-Centric Benchmark for Multi-Sensor SLAM45
Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking With Conformal Uncertainty Propagation45
Exploring Recurrent Long-Term Temporal Fusion for Multi-View 3D Perception45
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration45
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm45
Toward Accurate and Robust Unloading Force Rendering via a Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Body Weight Support System44
Using Mobile AR for Rapid Feasibility Analysis for Deployment of Robots: A Usability Study With Non-Expert Users44
Table of Contents44
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-Training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition With Vision Transformers44
Priming Robotic Plantarflexor Resistance With Assistance to Improve Ankle Power During Exoskeleton Gait Training44
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information44
MyoPassivity Map: Does Multi-Channel sEMG Correlate With the Energetic Behavior of Upper-Limb Biomechanics During Physical Human-Robot Interaction?44
Overworld: Assessing the Geometry of the World for Human-Robot Interaction43
Controlling Pneumatic Bending Actuator With Gain-Scheduled Feedforward and Physical Reservoir Computing State Estimation43
Detection of Texting While Walking in Occluded Environment Using Variational Autoencoder for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation43
VesNet-RL: Simulation-Based Reinforcement Learning for Real-World US Probe Navigation43
Toward AI Autonomous Navigation for Mechanical Thrombectomy Using Hierarchical Modular Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (HM-MARL)43
$\mathcal {PLC}$-LiSLAM: LiDAR SLAM With Planes, Lines, and Cylinders43
Chance-Constrained Convex MPC for Robust Quadruped Locomotion Under Parametric and Additive Uncertainties43
Optical Flow-Based Vascular Respiratory Motion Compensation43
Gait-Adaptive Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion With Real-Time Under-Base Terrain Reconstruction43
Learning Hierarchical Graph-Based Policy for Goal-Reaching in Unknown Environments43
Adaptive Shape Formation Against Swarm-Scale Variants in Robot Swarms42
Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning42
A Spiny Claws Climbing Robot Based on Self-Sensing Soles42
Multimodal Active Measurement for Human Mesh Recovery in Close Proximity42
Task Space Contouring Error Estimation and Precision Iterative Control of Robotic Manipulators42
PPL: Point Cloud Supervised Proprioceptive Locomotion Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robots in Crawl Spaces42
Online and Real-Time Trajectory Generation Method for Unforeseen Events Using a Modified Spline Approach42
A Springy Leg and a Double Backflip42
Optical LiDAR Communication: Repurposing Existing LiDAR Sensors for Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Communication42
Shaping Collective Behaviors in Swarm Robotics Through Probabilistic Motion Decision-Making42
Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow42
Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs42
Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting41
A Universal Framework for Extrinsic Calibration of Camera, Radar, and LiDAR41
Operando Multi-Physical Characterization Using Nanorobotic Manipulation With a Picometer-Scale Positioning Resolution41
Table of Contents41
RA-RRTV*: Risk-Averse RRT* With Local Vine Expansion for Path Planning in Narrow Passages Under Localization Uncertainty41
OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping41
Controllable Clothoid Path Generation for Autonomous Vehicles41
MIntNet: Rapid Motion Intention Forecasting of Coupled Human-Robot Systems With Simulation-to-Real Autoregressive Neural Networks41
Experimental Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism With Arc Prismatic Pairs41
Multi-View Depth Estimation by Using Adaptive Point Graph to Fuse Single-View Depth Probabilities41
A Robust Deformable Linear Object Perception Pipeline in 3D: From Segmentation to Reconstruction40
Learning Causal Structure Distributions for Robust Planning40
Towards Better Data Exploitation in Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation40
High-Velocity, Pressure-Driven Eversion for Rapid Vine Robots40
Medical Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment for Autonomous Robotic Screening40
Two-Stream Based Multi-Stage Hybrid Decoder for Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth40
SamPose: Generalizable Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation via Single-View Prompt40
Aqua-Splat: Physically-Informed Sonar-Camera Gaussian Splatting for Underwater 3D Reconstruction40
High-Speed Scooping Through Dynamic Manipulation: Model and Practice40
Vision-Based Markerless Tracking for Continuum Surgical Instruments in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery40
Discrete Whale Optimization Algorithm for Disassembly Line Balancing With Carbon Emission Constraint40
GNN-Based Decentralized Perception in Multi-Robot Systems for Predicting Worker Actions40
Enhancing Indoor Occupancy Prediction via Sparse Query-Based Multi-Level Consistent Knowledge Distillation39
Expanding Sparse LiDAR Depth and Guiding Stereo Matching for Robust Dense Depth Estimation39
Nonlinear Optimization for Personalized Path Planning for a Hybrid FES-Exoskeleton System39
GeoAdapt: Self-Supervised Test-Time Adaptation in LiDAR Place Recognition Using Geometric Priors39
Design of Human–Machine Compatible Ankle Rehabilitation Robot Based on Equivalent Human Ankle Model39
EvTTC: An Event Camera Dataset for Time-to-Collision Estimation38
A Variable-Stiffness Robotic Link Based on Rotating-Rectangle Auxetic Structures for Safe Human-Robot Interaction38
Internal Pressure Pattern Design for Variable Surface Shapes of Tongue-Type Pneumatic Soft Actuator38
A Novel Path Following Method Based on Whole-Body Deviation Evaluation for Hyper-Redundant Robots38
Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Skill Acquisition From a Suboptimal Demonstration38
Nezha-H: An HAUV for Aerial and Underwater Observation and Sampling38
Uncertainty-Aware Manipulation Planning Using Gravity and Environment Geometry38
Equivariant IMU Preintegration with Biases:a Galilean Group Approach38
SemRaFiner: Panoptic Segmentation in Sparse and Noisy Radar Point Clouds38
Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping38
Learning Interaction Regions and Motion Trajectories Simultaneously From Egocentric Demonstration Videos38
Capacity-Aware Planning and Scheduling in Budget-Constrained Multi-Agent MDPs: A Meta-RL Approach38
BEVCon: Advancing Bird's Eye View Perception With Contrastive Learning38
PRISM-TopoMap: Online Topological Mapping With Place Recognition and Scan Matching37
Design of an Accordion-Fold-Inspired Soft Electrohydraulic Actuator for Angular Motion37
How Bad is Selfish Driving? Bounding the Inefficiency of Equilibria in Urban Driving Games37
Self-Supervised Learning for Panoptic Segmentation of Multiple Fruit Flower Species37
Few-Shot Instance Grasping of Novel Objects in Clutter37
Magnetically-Assisted Microfluidic Printing for the Fabrication of Anisotropic Skeletal Muscle Structure37
Design and Modeling of Fabric-Shelled Pneumatic Bending Soft Actuators37
Stable Vision-Based Robot Kinematic Control With Deep Learning-Based Oriented Object Detector37
From Pixels to Predicates: Learning Symbolic World Models via Pretrained VLMs37
Enabling Grasp Synthesis Approaches to Task-Oriented Grasping Considering the End-State Comfort and Confidence Effects37
Signage-Aware Exploration in Open World Using Venue Maps37
Rigid-Soft Hybrid Suction Cups for Enhanced Anti-Torque and Energy-Efficient Attachment37
Clearance-Adaptive Grasping of Clustered Objects Using Pin-Array Robotic Fingers Under Uncertainty37
Soft Robotic Arm With Extensible Stiffening Layer36
S$^{2}$ Loop: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatio Loop Closure Detector for Resource-Constrained Platforms36
$\pi$-BA: Probabilistic Neural Bundle Adjustment With Iterative Cycle Optimization for Driving Scene Reconstruction36
Modeling of a Six-Bar Tensegrity Robot Using the Port-Hamiltonian Framework and Experimental Validation36
ARTEMIS: Autoregressive End-to-End Trajectory Planning With Mixture of Experts for Autonomous Driving36
MonoSG: Monocular 3D Object Detection With Stereo Guidance36
Towards More Efficient EfficientDets and Real-Time Marine Debris Detection36
Efficient Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction36
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