International Journal of Robotics Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Robotics Research is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions466
Fault-tolerant decentralized multi-sensor link velocity and acceleration estimation for elastic-joint robots211
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping178
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping129
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint118
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation118
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications99
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks65
TPT-Bench: A large-scale, long-term and robot-egocentric dataset for benchmarking target person tracking59
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning57
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning52
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories49
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation46
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand46
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque45
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading45
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation45
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking43
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems43
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection41
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments40
Tactile robotics: Past and future39
Actuation-constrained control framework for optimal microswarm navigation with swarm stability guarantee39
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot37
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics36
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation36
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios36
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches35
Design of supernumerary robotic limbs for the augmentation of astronauts performing partial-gravity extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)35
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms33
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation33
Morphological symmetries in robotics33
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality32
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments31
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback30
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts28
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains28
Multiscale deformable objects manipulation via wavelet-decomposed boundary element method27
Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations26
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements26
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees25
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation25
Energy-optimal linear quadratic tracking control for unmanned underwater vehicles in offshore aquaculture fish net-pen visual inspection24
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments23
Autogenerated manipulation primitives23
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects22
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations22
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects21
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist20
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization20
Active 6D pose estimation for textureless objects using multi-view RGB frames20
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction20
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections20
K2MUSE: A human lower-limb multimodal walking dataset spanning task and acquisition variability for rehabilitation robotics19
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign19
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study18
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects18
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control18
Sampling-based constrained motion planning with products of experts18
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy18
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization18
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity18
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks17
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration17
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters17
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset17
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges17
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots16
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations16
Unified force-impedance control16
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots16
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition16
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems16
Adaptive planning for assistive-care robotic missions16
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements16
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets15
Selected papers from WAFR202015
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach15
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots15
Control of the uncertain fully flexible link-joint robot manipulators: A free-drift adaptive fractional-order robust approach14
Bridging language and action: A survey of language-conditioned robot manipulation14
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning14
Grounding the three-dimensional divergent component of motion: Geometric analysis of contact and dynamic stability and its application to humanoid push recovery13
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.13
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots13
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability13
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation13
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems13
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset12
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks12
A ground robot dataset for multi-sensor navigation in diverse environments12
Electro-SLAM: Distributed underwater multi-robot SLAM via bio-inspired active and passive electro-sensing12
Why we must trust ourselves12
Postural virtual fixtures for ergonomic physical interactions with supernumerary robotic bodies12
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration12
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft12
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion11
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot11
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games11
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery11
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning11
Gravity-aware proactive joint-level compensation for portable soft slender robots using a single IMU and real-time simulation11
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels11
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning10
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation10
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution10
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation10
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps10
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks10
Data-driven soft robot control via adiabatic spectral submanifolds10
Expanding autonomous ground vehicle navigation capabilities through a multi-model parameterized Koopman framework10
Selected papers from ISRR'201910
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy10
CC-VPSTO: Chance-Constrained Via-Point-Based Stochastic Trajectory Optimisation for Online Robot Motion Planning Under Uncertainty10
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems10
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment9
Deliberate planning of 3D bin packing on packing configuration trees9
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission9
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems9
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification9
Spatially-enhanced recurrent memory for long-range mapless navigation via end-to-end reinforcement learning9
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC9
Selected papers from RSS20219
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM9
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning9
EgoExo++: Integrating on-demand exocentric visuals with 2.5D ground surface estimation for interactive teleoperation of underwater ROVs8
Prime the search: Using large language models for guiding geometric task and motion planning by warm-starting tree search8
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation8
Control-oriented meta-learning8
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance8
Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown soft objects8
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place8
Corrigendum to “Enabling to learn for force sensing: A coupling-decoupling under-actuated gripper with multiple-DoFs”8
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives8
Robotic estimation of single scuba diver respiration rate for safety in underwater human-robot collaboration8
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping8
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM8
Towards bridging the gap: Systematic sim-to-real transfer for diverse legged robots7
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic7
The split-belt rimless wheel7
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation7
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey7
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control7
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation7
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction7
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control7
Efficiently closing loops in LiDAR-based SLAM using point cloud density maps7
The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking large-scale LiDAR-visual localisation, reconstruction and radiance field methods6
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction6
A physically consistent stiffness formulation for contact-rich manipulation6
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles6
Screw impedance control for multi-contact interactions with hierarchically structured, bounded parameter matrices6
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design6
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map6
NeRFs in robotics: A survey6
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds6
Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots6
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment6
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks6
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space5
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications5
Kiri-Spoon: A kirigami utensil for robot-assisted feeding5
The Rosario dataset v2: Multi-modal dataset for agricultural robotics5
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning5
Selected papers from WAFR 20225
PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing5
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing5
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed5
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators5
Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions5
Editorial5
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics5
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision5
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics5
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction5
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks5
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains5
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields5
Perceive with confidence: Statistical safety assurances for navigation with learning-based perception5
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment4
Wearable and grounded supernumerary robotic limbs for sensorimotor augmentation in post-stroke patients4
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch4
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization4
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks4
Caging in time: A framework for robust object manipulation under uncertainties and limited robot perception4
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs4
Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control4
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation4
Group- k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k -uniform hypergraphs for robust4
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot4
Task-agnostic and interface-aware handling of unintended interface operation for robot arm teleoperation: Insights and case study evaluations by persons with spinal cord injury4
ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot4
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers4
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark4
GaRLILEO: Gravity-aligned radar-leg-inertial enhanced odometry4
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots4
Growable and interpretable neural control with online continual learning for autonomous lifelong locomotion learning machines4
Variable stiffness for shared authority control in robotic walkers4
Quasi-passive shoulder exoskeleton with enhanced assistance variability to adapt to frequent load changes3
Toward certifiable optimal motion planning for medical steerable needles3
Motion planning for hybrid dynamical systems: Framework, algorithm template, and a sampling-based approach3
On the learning-based control of continuum robots with provable robustness, efficiency, and generalizability3
A sampling and learning framework to prove motion planning infeasibility3
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control3
Multilevel motion planning: A fiber bundle formulation3
TiFA: A terrain-informed navigation framework for articulated tracked robots in rescue missions3
A three degrees of freedom switchable impedance myoelectric prosthetic wrist3
Domains as objectives: Domain-uncertainty-aware policy optimization through explicit multi-domain convex coverage set learning3
Tracking cloth deformation: A novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning3
On-body textile hysteresis estimation for personalized physical human-robot interaction3
3D kinematic modeling of a self-reconfigurable wheeled mobile robot for enhancing multimode motion capability3
Modelify: An approach to incrementally build 3D object models for map completion3
Efficient and distributed large-scale point cloud bundle adjustment via majorization-minimization3
MILUV: A Multi-UAV Indoor Localization dataset with UWB and Vision3
Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges3
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders3
Parkour in the wild: Learning a general and extensible agile locomotion policy using multi-expert distillation and RL fine-tuning3
A survey of communicating robot learning during human-robot interaction3
Fundamental limits for sensor-based robot control3
Adaptive Robotic Information Gathering via non-stationary Gaussian processes3
Autonomous aerial manipulation at arbitrary pose in SE(3) with robust control and whole-body planning3
FMimic: Foundation models are fine-grained action learners from human videos3
Design of a novel two-DOF robotic active vibration suppression system based on dynamic decoupling and pose-dependent dynamics3
Ergonomically optimized path-planning for industrial human–robot collaboration3
A modularized design approach for GelSight family of vision-based tactile sensors3
An eight-neuron network for quadruped locomotion with hip-knee joint control3
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators3
Can familiarization with a supernumerary robotic finger restore task-dependent cortico-autonomic coupling in first-time healthy users?3
YUTO MMS: A comprehensive SLAM dataset for urban mobile mapping with tilted LiDAR and panoramic camera integration3
Robust grasping across diverse sensor qualities: The GraspNet-1Billion dataset3
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal3
A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets3
A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization3
Active reward learning and iterative trajectory improvement from comparative language feedback3
Designing standard library of manipulation skill-agents for Learning-from-Observation3
A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains3
Quantifying mobile robot localization safety for an EKF-based SLAM estimator: An integrity monitoring approach3
Stiffness modelling and analysis of soft fluidic-driven robots using Lie theory3
GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim3
Contact2Motion: Contact guided dexterous grasp motion generation with synergy embedded optimization3
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