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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Table of Contents323
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information248
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist217
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments207
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets197
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation172
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots166
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion157
Information for Authors156
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction152
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions149
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System139
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal134
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands126
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information125
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios121
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study119
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study118
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements117
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift114
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation113
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions112
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot107
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection107
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials106
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment102
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots102
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation101
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting100
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map94
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies94
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning94
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes94
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle91
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation90
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces89
BagIt! An Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation of Fabric Bags for Object Bagging89
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning86
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance84
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras84
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control83
Towards Equilibrium Coordination With Stein Variational Game83
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments81
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction81
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving80
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments80
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation79
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation79
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)78
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception78
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping77
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning74
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives73
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance72
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation71
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems71
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning70
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation70
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness70
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer69
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 Therapy68
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions68
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks68
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery67
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot67
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving67
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking66
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments66
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots65
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry65
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution65
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor65
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish63
Personalized Wearable Ankle Robot Using Modular Additive Manufacturing Design63
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator62
A sEMG-Based Active-Passive Fusion Rehabilitation Method for Ankle Fracture Rehabilitation Robot after Surgery62
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation61
Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region61
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information61
Customize-Your-Joy Hand: A user-oriented, cost-effective 22-DOF platform for future human-robot community61
Inferring Human-Robot Performance Objectives During Locomotion Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control61
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots60
Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos60
GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-Aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation60
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation60
Discrete Cosserat Static Model-Based Control of Soft Manipulator60
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation60
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block59
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition59
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning58
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment57
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot57
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks57
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model57
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy57
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety56
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions56
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching56
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping56
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism55
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage55
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber55
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost55
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning55
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions55
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential54
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction54
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device54
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction53
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance53
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion53
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives53
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration53
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction53
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design53
SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle53
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors52
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation52
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots With Mobile Bases via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning52
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications52
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop52
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators52
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking52
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments52
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm52
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning51
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies51
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path51
Exploring Recurrent Long-Term Temporal Fusion for Multi-View 3D Perception51
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research50
Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Tracking50
Design an Underactuated Soft Exoskeleton to Sequentially Provide Knee Extension and Ankle Plantarflexion Assistance50
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization50
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments50
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions50
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots50
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots50
VECtor: A Versatile Event-Centric Benchmark for Multi-Sensor SLAM50
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study49
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch49
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement49
Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness49
Whole-Body Fuzzy Based Impedance Control of a Humanoid Wheeled Robot49
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents49
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects49
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control49
DUFOMap: Efficient Dynamic Awareness Mapping48
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps48
VLM-SFD: VLM-Assisted Siamese Flow Diffusion Framework for Dual-Arm Cooperative Manipulation48
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-Training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition With Vision Transformers48
Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking With Conformal Uncertainty Propagation47
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration47
I2KEN: Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain Knowledge Enhancement Network for Lifelong Loop Closure Detection47
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics47
Table of Contents47
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning47
Shaping Collective Behaviors in Swarm Robotics Through Probabilistic Motion Decision-Making46
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information46
SamPose: Generalizable Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation via Single-View Prompt46
Smooth Parameterization of Rigid-Body Inertia46
BEVCon: Advancing Bird's Eye View Perception With Contrastive Learning46
Nonlinear Optimization for Personalized Path Planning for a Hybrid FES-Exoskeleton System45
Modeling of a Six-Bar Tensegrity Robot Using the Port-Hamiltonian Framework and Experimental Validation45
A Robust LiDAR-Camera Self-Calibration Via Rotation-Based Alignment and Multi-Level Cost Volume45
Toward Accurate and Robust Unloading Force Rendering via a Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Body Weight Support System44
Priming Robotic Plantarflexor Resistance With Assistance to Improve Ankle Power During Exoskeleton Gait Training44
GNN-Based Decentralized Perception in Multi-Robot Systems for Predicting Worker Actions44
A Power-Aware Control Strategy for an Elbow Effort-Compensation Device44
Overworld: Assessing the Geometry of the World for Human-Robot Interaction44
MyoPassivity Map: Does Multi-Channel sEMG Correlate With the Energetic Behavior of Upper-Limb Biomechanics During Physical Human-Robot Interaction?44
Using Mobile AR for Rapid Feasibility Analysis for Deployment of Robots: A Usability Study With Non-Expert Users44
Design of an Accordion-Fold-Inspired Soft Electrohydraulic Actuator for Angular Motion44
Detection of Texting While Walking in Occluded Environment Using Variational Autoencoder for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation44
F1 Hand: A Versatile Fixed-Finger Gripper for Delicate Teleoperation and Autonomous Grasping44
Smooth Path Planning and Dynamic Contact Force Regulation for Robotic Ultrasound Scanning43
Nezha-H: An HAUV for Aerial and Underwater Observation and Sampling43
Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow43
Engagement Enhancement Based on Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive Assist-as-Needed Controller43
High-Performance Hydraulic Soft Robotic Control Using Continuous Flow Regulation and Partial Feedback43
Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning43
EFEAR-4D: Ego-Velocity Filtering for Efficient and Accurate 4D Radar Odometry43
Online and Real-Time Trajectory Generation Method for Unforeseen Events Using a Modified Spline Approach43
A Spiny Claws Climbing Robot Based on Self-Sensing Soles43
WS-OPE: Weakly Supervised 6-D Object Pose Regression Using Relative Multi-Camera Pose Constraints43
Enabling Grasp Synthesis Approaches to Task-Oriented Grasping Considering the End-State Comfort and Confidence Effects42
A Springy Leg and a Double Backflip42
Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping42
Design and Experimental Validation of a Shock-Absorption Mechanism Inspired From the Frog's Forelimbs42
Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs42
Modeling and Implementation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot42
Learning Failure Prevention Skills for Safe Robot Manipulation41
How Bad is Selfish Driving? Bounding the Inefficiency of Equilibria in Urban Driving Games41
Experimental Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism With Arc Prismatic Pairs41
Two-Stream Based Multi-Stage Hybrid Decoder for Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth41
Magnetically-Assisted Microfluidic Printing for the Fabrication of Anisotropic Skeletal Muscle Structure41
Multimodal Active Measurement for Human Mesh Recovery in Close Proximity41
S$^{2}$ Loop: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatio Loop Closure Detector for Resource-Constrained Platforms41
Learning-Based Efficient Phase- Amplitude Modulation and Hybrid Control for MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment41
Rigid-Soft Hybrid Suction Cups for Enhanced Anti-Torque and Energy-Efficient Attachment41
OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping40
Where are You? Unscented Particle Filter for Single Range Relative Pose Estimation in Unobservable Motion Using UWB and VIO40
Mixing Left and Right-Hand Driving Data in a Hierarchical Framework With LLM Generation40
Operando Multi-Physical Characterization Using Nanorobotic Manipulation With a Picometer-Scale Positioning Resolution40
MIntNet: Rapid Motion Intention Forecasting of Coupled Human-Robot Systems With Simulation-to-Real Autoregressive Neural Networks40
Cooperative Payload Estimation by a Team of Mocobots40
Learning Policies by Learning Rules40
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A Synchronous-Optimized and Safety-Improved Framework for Human-Robot Interaction in Robot-Assisted Knee Arthroplasty39
Signage-Aware Exploration in Open World Using Venue Maps39
Controllable Clothoid Path Generation for Autonomous Vehicles39
Precision Coordinated Control of Gantry Multi-Axis Systems With Coupled Dynamics and Prescribed Performance39
Kernel-Based Dynamic Ensemble Technique for Remaining Useful Life Prediction39
A Smooth Orientation Planner for Trajectories in the Cartesian Space39
Towards Better Data Exploitation in Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation39
Multi-View Depth Estimation by Using Adaptive Point Graph to Fuse Single-View Depth Probabilities39
Learning Hierarchical Graph-Based Policy for Goal-Reaching in Unknown Environments39
RA-RRTV*: Risk-Averse RRT* With Local Vine Expansion for Path Planning in Narrow Passages Under Localization Uncertainty39
Mixed-Reality Digital Twins: Leveraging the Physical and Virtual Worlds for Hybrid Sim2Real Transition of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Policies39
Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Skill Acquisition From a Suboptimal Demonstration39
An Evaluation Framework of Human-Robot Teaming for Navigation Among Movable Obstacles via Virtual Reality-Based Interactions38
Information-Aware Lyapunov-Based MPC in a Feedback-Feedforward Control Strategy for Autonomous Robots38
High-Speed Scooping Through Dynamic Manipulation: Model and Practice38
Torque-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-and-Robot Agnostic Learning on Bipedal Robots Using Sim-to-Real Transfer38
High-Velocity, Pressure-Driven Eversion for Rapid Vine Robots38
StROL: Stabilized and Robust Online Learning From Humans38
SemanticLoop: Loop Closure With 3D Semantic Graph Matching38
SemRaFiner: Panoptic Segmentation in Sparse and Noisy Radar Point Clouds38
EvTTC: An Event Camera Dataset for Time-to-Collision Estimation38
Learning Causal Structure Distributions for Robust Planning38
A Convex Formulation of Frictional Contact Between Rigid and Deformable Bodies38
GeoAdapt: Self-Supervised Test-Time Adaptation in LiDAR Place Recognition Using Geometric Priors38
Chance-Constrained Convex MPC for Robust Quadruped Locomotion Under Parametric and Additive Uncertainties37
Atmospheric Aerosol Diagnostics With UAV-Based Holographic Imaging and Computer Vision37
Utilization of Image/Force/Tactile Sensor Data for Object-Shape-Oriented Manipulation: Wiping Objects With Turning Back Motions and Occlusion37
Uncertainty-Aware Manipulation Planning Using Gravity and Environment Geometry37
ACHORD: Communication-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination With Intermittent Connectivity37
Optical Flow-Based Vascular Respiratory Motion Compensation37
Augmented Neural Network for Full Robot Kinematic Modelling in SE(3)37
“Don't Forget to Put the Milk Back!” Dataset for Enabling Embodied Agents to Detect Anomalous Situations37
Radar-Based Materials Classification Using Deep Wavelet Scattering Transform: A Comparison of Centimeter vs. Millimeter Wave Units37
Bimanual Grasp Synthesis for Dexterous Robot Hands37
ALARM: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Reliable Mimicry for Robust Legged Locomotion37
A Multi-Configuration Track-Legged Humanoid Robot for Dexterous Manipulation and High Mobility: Design and Development37
APP: A* Post-Processing Algorithm for Robots With Bidirectional Shortcut and Path Perturbation37
Load-Carrying Assistance of Articulated Legged Robots Based on Hydrostatic Support37
Continuous Safety Control of Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments37
Internal Pressure Pattern Design for Variable Surface Shapes of Tongue-Type Pneumatic Soft Actuator37
ST-DepthNet: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Network for Depth Completion Using a Single Non-Repetitive Circular Scanning Lidar37
Observability-Aware Online Multi-Lidar Extrinsic Calibration36
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