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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter291
DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor With Application to In-Hand Manipulation214
EGO-Planner: An ESDF-Free Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotors152
Multi-Sensor Guided Hand Gesture Recognition for a Teleoperated Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network144
Towards High-Performance Solid-State-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping139
Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environments Through Globally Guided Reinforcement Learning137
A Dexterous Soft Robotic Hand for Delicate In-Hand Manipulation136
DynaSLAM II: Tightly-Coupled Multi-Object Tracking and SLAM133
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors127
Lio-A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications123
Nonlinear MPC for Collision Avoidance and Control of UAVs With Dynamic Obstacles123
Cross-View Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings120
Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments120
BADGR: An Autonomous Self-Supervised Learning-Based Navigation System118
R $^2$ LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping115
DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios110
TLIO: Tight Learned Inertial Odometry106
Real-Time Fusion Network for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation Incorporating Unexpected Obstacle Detection for Road-Driving Images106
Improving Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction Using Traffic States on Interactive Driving Scenarios104
FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure and Hierarchical Planning100
BALM: Bundle Adjustment for Lidar Mapping100
A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation98
Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data97
ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-Based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building97
Forecasting Trajectory and Behavior of Road-Agents Using Spectral Clustering in Graph-LSTMs96
3D-MiniNet: Learning a 2D Representation From Point Clouds for Fast and Efficient 3D LIDAR Semantic Segmentation92
Learning Force Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks With Rigid Position-Controlled Robots89
Grasping in the Wild: Learning 6DoF Closed-Loop Grasping From Low-Cost Demonstrations88
Ground-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving87
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation With Fast Attention85
Unified Multi-Modal Landmark Tracking for Tightly Coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry78
Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey77
M2DGR: A Multi-Sensor and Multi-Scenario SLAM Dataset for Ground Robots77
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time76
Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion75
Combining Events and Frames Using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction75
Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?74
BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation74
Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones73
Multi-Class Road User Detection With 3+1D Radar in the View-of-Delft Dataset73
Elastica: A Compliant Mechanics Environment for Soft Robotic Control72
Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization72
Structure-SLAM: Low-Drift Monocular SLAM in Indoor Environments72
Faster-LIO: Lightweight Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertial Odometry Using Parallel Sparse Incremental Voxels71
Stepwise Goal-Driven Networks for Trajectory Prediction70
Integrated Task Assignment and Path Planning for Capacitated Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery69
A Geometric Variable-Strain Approach for Static Modeling of Soft Manipulators With Tendon and Fluidic Actuation69
Don’t Forget The Past: Recurrent Depth Estimation from Monocular Video69
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way69
Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning68
Direct LiDAR Odometry: Fast Localization With Dense Point Clouds66
TiltDrone: A Fully-Actuated Tilting Quadrotor Platform66
Efficient Sampling-Based Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning With Application to Autonomous Driving66
Autonomous UAV Exploration of Dynamic Environments Via Incremental Sampling and Probabilistic Roadmap65
UniFuse: Unidirectional Fusion for 360° Panorama Depth Estimation65
Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation With Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor65
LaneAF: Robust Multi-Lane Detection With Affinity Fields64
Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World63
Towards the Long-Endurance Flight of an Insect-Inspired, Tailless, Two-Winged, Flapping-Wing Flying Robot61
Probabilistic Crowd GAN: Multimodal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Using a Graph Vehicle-Pedestrian Attention Network61
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Local Planning of a Ground Vehicle in Unknown Rough Terrain60
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong60
Object-Independent Human-to-Robot Handovers Using Real Time Robotic Vision60
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking60
Liquid-Metal Magnetic Soft Robot With Reprogrammable Magnetization and Stiffness58
ECG: Edge-aware Point Cloud Completion with Graph Convolution58
Decentralized Multi-Agent Pursuit Using Deep Reinforcement Learning58
EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation57
Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Control With Stability Guarantee57
V2X-Sim: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving57
Inflatable Soft Wearable Robot for Reducing Therapist Fatigue During Upper Extremity Rehabilitation in Severe Stroke56
OverlapTransformer: An Efficient and Yaw-Angle-Invariant Transformer Network for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition55
ALPHRED: A Multi-Modal Operations Quadruped Robot for Package Delivery Applications55
GLAS: Global-to-Local Safe Autonomy Synthesis for Multi-Robot Motion Planning With End-to-End Learning55
Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors54
Perceptive Locomotion in Rough Terrain – Online Foothold Optimization54
CorsNet: 3D Point Cloud Registration by Deep Neural Network54
Intensity-SLAM: Intensity Assisted Localization and Mapping for Large Scale Environment54
Automatic Shape Control of Deformable Wires Based on Model-Free Visual Servoing53
Run Your Visual-Inertial Odometry on NVIDIA Jetson: Benchmark Tests on a Micro Aerial Vehicle53
Soft Magnetic Tactile Skin for Continuous Force and Location Estimation Using Neural Networks53
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching53
Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints52
Magnetic Control of a Steerable Guidewire Under Ultrasound Guidance Using Mobile Electromagnets52
A Learnt Approach for the Design of Magnetically Actuated Shape Forming Soft Tentacle Robots52
Learning Variable Impedance Control for Contact Sensitive Tasks51
A Model-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Force and Shape Estimation in Soft Robotics51
The ARCHES Space-Analogue Demonstration Mission: Towards Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Robots for Collaborative Scientific Sampling in Planetary Exploration51
DiSCO: Differentiable Scan Context With Orientation50
LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments50
Deep Compression for Dense Point Cloud Maps50
Are We Ready for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Inland Waterways? The USVInland Multisensor Dataset and Benchmark50
Air-to-Air Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs: An Experimental Evaluation of Deep Learning50
DM-VIO: Delayed Marginalization Visual-Inertial Odometry49
Effect of Cognitive Fatigue, Operator Sex, and Robot Assistance on Task Performance Metrics, Workload, and Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration49
WareVision: CNN Barcode Detection-Based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Warehouse Stocktaking49
Interaction-Aware Motion Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Multiple Model Kalman Filtering Scheme49
Hybrid Systems Differential Dynamic Programming for Whole-Body Motion Planning of Legged Robots49
Vision-Based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments48
A sEMG-Driven Soft ExoSuit Based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications48
SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-Based Hierarchical Place Recognition48
Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Robot Collisions Without Joint Torque Sensors48
An Electrostatic/Gecko-Inspired Adhesives Soft Robotic Gripper48
TACTO: A Fast, Flexible, and Open-Source Simulator for High-Resolution Vision-Based Tactile Sensors47
Trajectory Optimization for Wheeled-Legged Quadrupedal Robots Driving in Challenging Terrain47
Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo Sport Using Deep Reinforcement Learning47
Concurrent Training of a Control Policy and a State Estimator for Dynamic and Robust Legged Locomotion47
OV$^{2}$SLAM: A Fully Online and Versatile Visual SLAM for Real-Time Applications47
HD Map Update for Autonomous Driving With Crowdsourced Data46
Frozone: Freezing-Free, Pedestrian-Friendly Navigation in Human Crowds46
Multi-GAT: A Graphical Attention-Based Hierarchical Multimodal Representation Learning Approach for Human Activity Recognition46
SE-ResUNet: A Novel Robotic Grasp Detection Method46
OmniDet: Surround View Cameras Based Multi-Task Visual Perception Network for Autonomous Driving46
Data–Driven Disturbance Observers for Estimating External Forces on Soft Robots46
Socially and Contextually Aware Human Motion and Pose Forecasting46
Multimodal Deep Generative Models for Trajectory Prediction: A Conditional Variational Autoencoder Approach46
Learning Variable Impedance Control via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Force-Related Tasks46
Self-Supervised Learning for Precise Pick-and-Place Without Object Model45
Model-Based Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Flight With Suspended Payloads45
Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events45
A Dual Quaternion-Based Approach for Coordinate Calibration of Dual Robots in Collaborative Motion45
Design of the High-Payload Flapping Wing Robot E-Flap44
Human-Centered Collaborative Robots With Deep Reinforcement Learning44
A Supernumerary Robotic Leg Powered by Magnetorheological Actuators to Assist Human Locomotion44
Learning Scheduling Policies for Multi-Robot Coordination With Graph Attention Networks44
A Fabrication Free, 3D Printed, Multi-Material, Self-Sensing Soft Actuator44
Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results44
Keypoints-Based Deep Feature Fusion for Cooperative Vehicle Detection of Autonomous Driving44
RGGNet: Tolerance Aware LiDAR-Camera Online Calibration With Geometric Deep Learning and Generative Model43
Perceptive Model Predictive Control for Continuous Mobile Manipulation43
Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Motion Planning With Temporal Logic43
DiversityGAN: Diversity-Aware Vehicle Motion Prediction via Latent Semantic Sampling43
Generation of GelSight Tactile Images for Sim2Real Learning43
Model-Free Safety-Critical Control for Robotic Systems43
Panoster: End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds43
Liquid Pouch Motors: Printable Planar Actuators Driven by Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change for Shape-Changing Interfaces43
Reinforcement Learned Distributed Multi-Robot Navigation With Reciprocal Velocity Obstacle Shaped Rewards43
UFOMap: An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework That Embraces the Unknown42
Learning Open-World Object Proposals Without Learning to Classify42
Visual Servoing of a Cable-Driven Soft Robot Manipulator With Shape Feature42
A Control Barrier Function Approach for Maximizing Performance While Fulfilling to ISO/TS 15066 Regulations42
Non-Gaussian Chance-Constrained Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Under Agent Uncertainty42
LiDAR SLAM With Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment42
Semantic Histogram Based Graph Matching for Real-Time Multi-Robot Global Localization in Large Scale Environment42
Do We Need to Compensate for Motion Distortion and Doppler Effects in Spinning Radar Navigation?42
Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control With Differentiable Simulation42
Robust Three-Dimensional Shape Sensing for Flexible Endoscopic Surgery Using Multi-Core FBG Sensors41
Optimal Strategies for a Class of Multi-Player Reach-Avoid Differential Games in 3D Space41
A Sim-to-Real Pipeline for Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Navigation in Cluttered Rough Terrain41
Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning41
Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotor Fault-Tolerant Control41
Efficient Trajectory Planning for Multiple Non-Holonomic Mobile Robots via Prioritized Trajectory Optimization41
Autonomous Tissue Retraction in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery – A Feasibility Study41
GPR-RCNN: An Algorithm of Subsurface Defect Detection for Airport Runway Based on GPR40
Monocular 3D Detection With Geometric Constraint Embedding and Semi-Supervised Training40
Tunable Multi-Modal Locomotion in Soft Dielectric Elastomer Robots40
Large-Scale Autonomous Flight With Real-Time Semantic SLAM Under Dense Forest Canopy40
Combining Speed and Separation Monitoring With Power and Force Limiting for Safe Collaborative Robotics Applications40
MLPD: Multi-Label Pedestrian Detector in Multispectral Domain39
Toward Gait Symmetry Enhancement via a Cable-Driven Exoskeleton Powered by Series Elastic Actuators39
Design and Control of a Highly Redundant Rigid-flexible Coupling Robot to Assist the COVID-19 Oropharyngeal-Swab Sampling39
Socially Compliant Robot Navigation in Crowded Environment by Human Behavior Resemblance Using Deep Reinforcement Learning39
Towards Better Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Vision: Multi-Angle Feature Aggregation and Contour Supervision39
Lightweight 3-D Localization and Mapping for Solid-State LiDAR39
Automatic Labeling to Generate Training Data for Online LiDAR-Based Moving Object Segmentation39
Adaptive Learning Attention Network for Underwater Image Enhancement39
Cooperative Transportation of Cable Suspended Payloads With MAVs Using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensing39
GA-Nav: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments38
A Lifelong Learning Approach to Mobile Robot Navigation38
PLF-VINS: Real-Time Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM With Point-Line Fusion and Parallel-Line Fusion38
LOCUS 2.0: Robust and Computationally Efficient Lidar Odometry for Real-Time 3D Mapping38
Relative Position Estimation in Multi-Agent Systems Using Attitude-Coupled Range Measurements38
Cooperative Comfortable-Driving at Signalized Intersections for Connected and Automated Vehicles38
Pose Refinement Graph Convolutional Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition38
Mobile Manipulator for Autonomous Localization, Grasping and Precise Placement of Construction Material in a Semi-Structured Environment38
UV-SLAM: Unconstrained Line-Based SLAM Using Vanishing Points for Structural Mapping38
Advantages of Bilinear Koopman Realizations for the Modeling and Control of Systems With Unknown Dynamics37
New Soft Robot Hand Configuration With Combined Biotensegrity and Thin Artificial Muscle37
A Multi-Resolution Frontier-Based Planner for Autonomous 3D Exploration37
Autonomous Driving Trajectory Optimization With Dual-Loop Iterative Anchoring Path Smoothing and Piecewise-Jerk Speed Optimization37
A Magnetic Continuum Robot With Multi-Mode Control Using Opposite-Magnetized Magnets37
Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception With Graph Neural Networks37
PTP: Parallelized Tracking and Prediction With Graph Neural Networks and Diversity Sampling37
Multi-Scale Interaction for Real-Time LiDAR Data Segmentation on an Embedded Platform37
Underactuated Motion Planning and Control for Jumping With Wheeled-Bipedal Robots36
Keypoint Matching for Point Cloud Registration Using Multiplex Dynamic Graph Attention Networks36
Sensing and Control of a Multi-Joint Soft Wearable Robot for Upper-Limb Assistance and Rehabilitation36
Goal-Driven Autonomous Exploration Through Deep Reinforcement Learning36
“Good Robot!”: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Tasks with Sim to Real Transfer36
Where to go Next: Learning a Subgoal Recommendation Policy for Navigation in Dynamic Environments36
Efficient Learning of Goal-Oriented Push-Grasping Synergy in Clutter36
Efficient and Probabilistic Adaptive Voxel Mapping for Accurate Online LiDAR Odometry36
Pursuing Drones With Drones Using Millimeter Wave Radar36
Path Planning With Automatic Seam Extraction Over Point Cloud Models for Robotic Arc Welding36
A Soft Robotic Gripper With an Active Palm and Reconfigurable Fingers for Fully Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation36
BVMatch: Lidar-Based Place Recognition Using Bird's-Eye View Images35
Power Line Inspection Tasks With Multi-Aerial Robot Systems Via Signal Temporal Logic Specifications35
Joint Plant Instance Detection and Leaf Count Estimation for In-Field Plant Phenotyping35
Learning Topology From Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Depth Completion35
Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning35
DeepFusionMOT: A 3D Multi-Object Tracking Framework Based on Camera-LiDAR Fusion With Deep Association35
Toward Deep Generalization of Peripheral EMG-Based Human-Robot Interfacing: A Hybrid Explainable Solution for NeuroRobotic Systems35
Multi-Agent Motion Planning From Signal Temporal Logic Specifications35
Multi-Robot Active Sensing and Environmental Model Learning With Distributed Gaussian Process35
Multi-UAV Surveillance With Minimum Information Idleness and Latency Constraints35
Imitation Learning Based on Bilateral Control for Human–Robot Cooperation35
Optimal Cooperative Maneuver Planning for Multiple Nonholonomic Robots in a Tiny Environment via Adaptive-Scaling Constrained Optimization35
Koopman-Based Control of a Soft Continuum Manipulator Under Variable Loading Conditions35
Bilateral Teleoperation With Adaptive Impedance Control for Contact Tasks35
When Transformer Meets Robotic Grasping: Exploits Context for Efficient Grasp Detection35
Predictive Locomotion Mode Recognition and Accurate Gait Phase Estimation for Hip Exoskeleton on Various Terrains35
Relative Position Estimation Between Two UWB Devices With IMUs35
Dynamic End Effector Tracking With an Omnidirectional Parallel Aerial Manipulator34
Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control for High-Precision Motion Tracking of a Multi-DOF Micro/Nano Manipulator34
Adaptive CPG-Based Gait Planning With Learning-Based Torque Estimation and Control for Exoskeletons34
Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Helical Microrobots34
Learning Interaction-Aware Trajectory Predictions for Decentralized Multi-Robot Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments34
Finite-Horizon LQR Control of Quadrotors on $SE_2(3)$34
Path Tracking Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robot hTetro With Four Differential Drive Units34
Aerial Manipulator Pushing a Movable Structure Using a DOB-Based Robust Controller34
TransCG: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset for Transparent Object Depth Completion and a Grasping Baseline34
Learnable Online Graph Representations for 3D Multi-Object Tracking34
Hysteresis Modeling of Robotic Catheters Based on Long Short-Term Memory Network for Improved Environment Reconstruction34
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance34
Design, Fabrication, and Hysteresis Modeling of Soft Microtubule Artificial Muscle (SMAM) for Medical Applications33
DynaVINS: A Visual-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Environments33
Adaptive Sliding Mode Disturbance Observer Based Robust Control for Robot Manipulators Towards Assembly Assistance33
IMU-Based Inertia Estimation for a Quadrotor Using Newton-Euler Dynamics33
Self-Attention Based Visual-Tactile Fusion Learning for Predicting Grasp Outcomes33
Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering for Underwater Navigation33
Optimization-Based Framework for Excavation Trajectory Generation33
Topology Aware Object-Level Semantic Mapping Towards More Robust Loop Closure33
Decoding HD-EMG Signals for Myoelectric Control - How Small Can the Analysis Window Size be?33
DiSCo-SLAM: Distributed Scan Context-Enabled Multi-Robot LiDAR SLAM With Two-Stage Global-Local Graph Optimization33
Design of a 3D-Printed Soft Robotic Hand With Integrated Distributed Tactile Sensing33
BLT Gripper: An Adaptive Gripper With Active Transition Capability Between Precise Pinch and Compliant Grasp33
Multimodal Safety-Critical Scenarios Generation for Decision-Making Algorithms Evaluation33
DenseLiDAR: A Real-Time Pseudo Dense Depth Guided Depth Completion Network33
Synthetic Biological Signals Machine-Generated by GPT-2 Improve the Classification of EEG and EMG Through Data Augmentation32
Efficient LiDAR Odometry for Autonomous Driving32
Bi-Directional Domain Adaptation for Sim2Real Transfer of Embodied Navigation Agents32
RINet: Efficient 3D Lidar-Based Place Recognition Using Rotation Invariant Neural Network32
Unmanned Aerial Sensor Placement for Cluttered Environments32
Event-Based Visual Place Recognition With Ensembles of Temporal Windows32
Multi-Tour Set Traveling Salesman Problem in Planning Power Transmission Line Inspection32
Volumetric Propagation Network: Stereo-LiDAR Fusion for Long-Range Depth Estimation32
Real-Time Dynamics of Cable-Driven Continuum Robots Considering the Cable Constraint and Friction Effect32
Modeling, Calibration, and Evaluation of a Tendon-Actuated Planar Parallel Continuum Robot32
Design, Modeling, and Control of a Coaxially Aligned Steerable (COAST) Guidewire Robot32
Learning-Based Balance Control of Wheel-Legged Robots32
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