IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-Training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition With Vision Transformers205
Information for Authors204
Table of Contents199
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information194
Whole-Body Fuzzy Based Impedance Control of a Humanoid Wheeled Robot194
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors191
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition188
FT-BSP: Focused Topological Belief Space Planning185
Cascaded Filtering Using the Sigma Point Transformation165
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping163
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist148
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path146
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy143
Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission136
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning126
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments124
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions122
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment121
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets119
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation115
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation113
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation110
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator108
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots103
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation100
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction97
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials93
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning92
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning89
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion89
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry88
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects87
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications86
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning85
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm85
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions84
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$83
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot79
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands78
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes78
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift77
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device75
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)75
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study74
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation74
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios74
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments72
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment72
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer72
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation71
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study71
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces69
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning68
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration67
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information67
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments66
Compact Pneumatic Clutch With Integrated Stiffness Variation and Position Feedback65
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements65
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle65
GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-Aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation64
Reducing the Influence of the Contact Area on a Soft Capacitive Force Sensor63
Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos63
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information62
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map62
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation61
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies61
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost61
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions61
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation60
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research60
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments60
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving60
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots60
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics59
A sEMG-Based Active-Passive Fusion Rehabilitation Method for Ankle Fracture Rehabilitation Robot after Surgery59
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control59
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement59
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism59
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving58
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras57
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor57
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction57
Exploring Recurrent Long-Term Temporal Fusion for Multi-View 3D Perception57
Combining Unsupervised Muscle Co-Contraction Estimation With Bio-Feedback Allows Augmented Kinesthetic Teaching57
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives57
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting57
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions56
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential56
Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning56
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots56
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks55
Decoding HD-EMG Signals for Myoelectric Control - How Small Can the Analysis Window Size be?55
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control55
Personalized Wearable Ankle Robot Using Modular Additive Manufacturing Design54
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems54
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots54
Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region54
Inferring Human-Robot Performance Objectives During Locomotion Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control54
Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Transportation System Based on Hierarchical Quadratic Programming53
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design53
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots53
Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads With MAVs Using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensing53
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration53
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot53
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study52
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation52
Design an Underactuated Soft Exoskeleton to Sequentially Provide Knee Extension and Ankle Plantarflexion Assistance52
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop52
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots With Mobile Bases via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning52
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery52
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks52
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot51
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction51
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish51
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots51
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping50
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents50
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies50
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps49
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection49
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception49
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation49
VECtor: A Versatile Event-Centric Benchmark for Multi-Sensor SLAM49
Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking With Conformal Uncertainty Propagation48
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance48
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning48
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking48
Discrete Cosserat Static Model-Based Control of Soft Manipulator48
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance47
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives47
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching47
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking46
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage46
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments46
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization46
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber46
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles with a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model46
Scenario-Based Trajectory Optimization in Uncertain Dynamic Environments45
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch45
Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness45
Entrainment During Human Locomotion Using a Soft Wearable Ankle Robot45
DUFOMap: Efficient Dynamic Awareness Mapping45
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance45
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy45
Table of Contents44
Smooth Parameterization of Rigid-Body Inertia44
Probabilistic Appearance-Invariant Topometric Localization With New Place Awareness44
Nonlinear Optimization for Personalized Path Planning for a Hybrid FES-Exoskeleton System44
Table of Contents44
A Multi-Configuration Track-Legged Humanoid Robot for Dexterous Manipulation and High Mobility: Design and Development44
Torque-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-and-Robot Agnostic Learning on Bipedal Robots Using Sim-to-Real Transfer44
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness44
Overworld: Assessing the Geometry of the World for Human-Robot Interaction44
A Robust LiDAR-Camera Self-Calibration Via Rotation-Based Alignment and Multi-Level Cost Volume44
Toward Accurate and Robust Unloading Force Rendering via a Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Body Weight Support System43
Efficient Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction43
Towards Better Data Exploitation in Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation43
Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow43
Surveillance and Collision-Free Tracking of an Aggressive Evader With an Actuated Sensor Pursuer43
SemanticLoop: Loop Closure With 3D Semantic Graph Matching43
Hermes - Wind Energy Harvesting Wireless System for Sensing AoA and Wind Speed43
Multi-View Depth Estimation by Using Adaptive Point Graph to Fuse Single-View Depth Probabilities43
Design of an Accordion-Fold-Inspired Soft Electrohydraulic Actuator for Angular Motion43
Vision-and-Force-Based Compliance Control for a Posterior Segment Ophthalmic Surgical Robot43
Priming Robotic Plantarflexor Resistance With Assistance to Improve Ankle Power During Exoskeleton Gait Training43
Towards Domain Generalization in Crop and Weed Segmentation for Precision Farming Robots43
Precision Coordinated Control of Gantry Multi-Axis Systems With Coupled Dynamics and Prescribed Performance43
Automatic Target-Less Camera-LiDAR Calibration From Motion and Deep Point Correspondences43
A Global Max-Flow-Based Multi-Resolution Next-Best-View Method for Reconstruction of 3D Unknown Objects43
Design and Evaluation of a Generic Visual SLAM Framework for Multi Camera Systems42
UE-Extractor: A Grid-to-Point Ground Extraction Framework for Unstructured Environments Using Adaptive Grid Projection42
A Smooth Orientation Planner for Trajectories in the Cartesian Space42
Vision-Based Markerless Tracking for Continuum Surgical Instruments in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery42
Dynamic Task Scheduling for Human-Robot Collaboration42
Laser Endoscopic Manipulator Using Spring-Reinforced Multi-DoF Soft Actuator42
Design and Characterization of a 3D-Printed Pneumatically-Driven Bistable Valve With Tunable Characteristics42
OCRTOC: A Cloud-Based Competition and Benchmark for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation42
P-MapNet: Far-Seeing Map Generator Enhanced by Both SDMap and HDMap Priors41
Bimanual Grasp Synthesis for Dexterous Robot Hands41
Parameter Estimation of an Industrial Car-Like Tractor41
Forecast-Based Newsvendor Models for Hospital Bed Capacity Management41
A Simulation Tool for Physics-Informed Control of Biomimetic Soft Robotic Arms41
Imposing Healthy Hip Motion Pattern and Range by Exoskeleton Control for Individualized Assistance41
Simulating Complete Points Representations for Single-View 6-DoF Grasp Detection41
A Fast and Efficient Attitude Control Algorithm of a Tilt-Rotor Aerial Platform Using Inputs Redundancies41
Novel Design of a Cable-Driven Continuum Robot With Multiple Motion Patterns41
Softness-Adaptive Pinch-Grasp Strategy Using Fingertip Tactile Information of Robot Hand41
Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior40
Information-Aware Lyapunov-Based MPC in a Feedback-Feedforward Control Strategy for Autonomous Robots40
Learning Robot Exploration Strategy With 4D Point-Clouds-Like Information as Observations40
Load Sharing Design of a Multi-legged Adaptable Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesion40
Legged Robot State Estimation With Dynamic Contact Event Information40
A Compliant Partitioned Shared Control Strategy for an Orbital Robot40
A Semi-Supervised Reservoir Computing System Based on Tapered Whisker for Mobile Robot Terrain Identification and Roughness Estimation40
WS-OPE: Weakly Supervised 6-D Object Pose Regression Using Relative Multi-Camera Pose Constraints40
Towards an Autonomous Robot-Assistant for Laparoscopy Using Exteroceptive Sensors: Feasibility Study and Implementation40
Design and Experimental Validation of a Shock-Absorption Mechanism Inspired From the Frog's Forelimbs40
A Flexible Robotics-Inspired Computational Model of Compressive Loading on the Human Spine39
Controllable Clothoid Path Generation for Autonomous Vehicles39
F1 Hand: A Versatile Fixed-Finger Gripper for Delicate Teleoperation and Autonomous Grasping39
Active SLAM With Prior Topo-Metric Graph Starting At Uncertain Position39
A Peristaltic Soft, Wearable Robot for Compression Therapy and Massage39
Linear Expressions of Drawbar Pull and Driving Torque for Grouser-Wheeled Planetary Rovers Without Terrain Mechanical Parameters39
A Power-Aware Control Strategy for an Elbow Effort-Compensation Device39
Few-Shot Instance Grasping of Novel Objects in Clutter39
Medical Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment for Autonomous Robotic Screening39
Internal Pressure Pattern Design for Variable Surface Shapes of Tongue-Type Pneumatic Soft Actuator39
Radar-Based Materials Classification Using Deep Wavelet Scattering Transform: A Comparison of Centimeter vs. Millimeter Wave Units39
A Springy Leg and a Double Backflip39
Atmospheric Aerosol Diagnostics With UAV-Based Holographic Imaging and Computer Vision39
Globally Optimal Fetoscopic Mosaicking Based on Pose Graph Optimisation With Affine Constraints38
Learning Interaction Regions and Motion Trajectories Simultaneously From Egocentric Demonstration Videos38
Uncertainty-Aware Manipulation Planning Using Gravity and Environment Geometry38
Equivariant IMU Preintegration with Biases:a Galilean Group Approach38
Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping38
Corrections to “Scooping Manipulation via Motion Control With a Two-Fingered Gripper and Its Application to Bin Picking” [Oct 21 6394-6401]38
Engagement Enhancement Based on Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive Assist-as-Needed Controller38
Modeling and Implementation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot38
Modeling of a Six-Bar Tensegrity Robot Using the Port-Hamiltonian Framework and Experimental Validation38
Operando Multi-Physical Characterization Using Nanorobotic Manipulation With a Picometer-Scale Positioning Resolution38
A Convex Formulation of Frictional Contact Between Rigid and Deformable Bodies38
High-Speed Scooping Through Dynamic Manipulation: Model and Practice37
Design of a Wearable Mechanism With Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-Based Artificial Muscle for Assisting With Shoulder Abduction37
Optical Flow-Based Vascular Respiratory Motion Compensation37
Enabling Grasp Synthesis Approaches to Task-Oriented Grasping Considering the End-State Comfort and Confidence Effects37
Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs37
Discrete Whale Optimization Algorithm for Disassembly Line Balancing With Carbon Emission Constraint37
Utilization of Image/Force/Tactile Sensor Data for Object-Shape-Oriented Manipulation: Wiping Objects With Turning Back Motions and Occlusion37
SemRaFiner: Panoptic Segmentation in Sparse and Noisy Radar Point Clouds37
S$^{2}$ Loop: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatio Loop Closure Detector for Resource-Constrained Platforms37
Observability-Aware Online Multi-Lidar Extrinsic Calibration36
Expanding Sparse LiDAR Depth and Guiding Stereo Matching for Robust Dense Depth Estimation36
Two-Stream Based Multi-Stage Hybrid Decoder for Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth36
Mixing Left and Right-Hand Driving Data in a Hierarchical Framework With LLM Generation36
High-Performance Hydraulic Soft Robotic Control Using Continuous Flow Regulation and Partial Feedback36
APP: A* Post-Processing Algorithm for Robots With Bidirectional Shortcut and Path Perturbation36
How Bad is Selfish Driving? Bounding the Inefficiency of Equilibria in Urban Driving Games36
Learning-Based Efficient Phase- Amplitude Modulation and Hybrid Control for MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment36
Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Pneumatic Soft Bellow-Type Wrist36
Learning Failure Prevention Skills for Safe Robot Manipulation36
A Novel Path Following Method Based on Whole-Body Deviation Evaluation for Hyper-Redundant Robots36
Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning36
Load-Carrying Assistance of Articulated Legged Robots Based on Hydrostatic Support35
Multimodal Active Measurement for Human Mesh Recovery in Close Proximity35
Design of Human–Machine Compatible Ankle Rehabilitation Robot Based on Equivalent Human Ankle Model35
ST-DepthNet: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Network for Depth Completion Using a Single Non-Repetitive Circular Scanning Lidar35
Adaptive Shape Formation Against Swarm-Scale Variants in Robot Swarms35
EFEAR-4D: Ego-Velocity Filtering for Efficient and Accurate 4D Radar Odometry34
MyoPassivity Map: Does Multi-Channel sEMG Correlate With the Energetic Behavior of Upper-Limb Biomechanics During Physical Human-Robot Interaction?34
Where are You? Unscented Particle Filter for Single Range Relative Pose Estimation in Unobservable Motion Using UWB and VIO34
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