International Journal of Robotics Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Robotics Research is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment146
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators137
USTC FLICAR: A sensors fusion dataset of LiDAR-inertial-camera for heavy-duty autonomous aerial work robots108
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation91
The split-belt rimless wheel87
Real-time recognition of team behaviors by multisensory graph-embedded robot learning69
The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises62
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint48
Decentralized trajectory planning for quadrotor swarm in cluttered environments with goal convergence guarantee46
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition41
Investigating strategies enabling novice users to teach plannable hierarchical tasks to robots40
Nonverbal social behavior generation for social robots using end-to-end learning40
Unified force-impedance control38
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications35
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis32
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations30
Motion planning by learning the solution manifold in trajectory optimization27
Nonlinear model predictive dynamic positioning of a remotely operated vehicle with wave disturbance preview24
SACBP: Belief space planning for continuous-time dynamical systems via stochastic sequential action control24
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control24
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles23
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration22
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots22
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal21
Selected papers from RSS202221
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation21
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders20
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds20
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions19
Time-optimal ergodic search: Multiscale coverage in minimum time19
RoBUTCHER: A novel robotic meat factory cell platform19
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design19
Semantically controllable augmentations for generalizable robot learning19
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction18
Optimizing contact patterns for robot locomotion via geometric mechanics18
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories17
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets17
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems16
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning15
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control15
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping15
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach15
Active preference-based Gaussian process regression for reward learning and optimization15
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock14
Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach14
Combining physics and deep learning to learn continuous-time dynamics models14
FusionPortableV2: A unified multi-sensor dataset for generalized SLAM across diverse platforms and scalable environments14
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability13
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators13
TRansPose: Large-scale multispectral dataset for transparent object13
Uncertainty-aware visually-attentive navigation using deep neural networks13
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots12
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision12
ASIMO: Agent-centric scene representation in multi-object manipulation12
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration12
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed11
Retraction Notice10
A bearing-angle approach for unknown target motion analysis based on visual measurements10
Selected papers from WAFR202010
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space10
Design of multirotor aerial vehicles: A taxonomy based on input allocation10
Sim-to-real transfer of adaptive control parameters for AUV stabilisation under current disturbance10
Hybrid sparse monocular visual odometry with online photometric calibration10
Physical interaction as communication: Learning robot objectives online from human corrections9
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation9
Dataset and Benchmark: Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception9
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning9
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque9
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments9
A Koopman-based residual modeling approach for the control of a soft robot arm9
Model-predictive optimal control of ferrofluidic microrobots in three-dimensional space9
Generalizable whole-body global manipulation of deformable linear objects by dual-arm robot in 3-D constrained environments8
Locally active globally stable dynamical systems: Theory, learning, and experiments8
A wireless signal-based sensing framework for robotics8
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems8
DUEL: Depth visUal Ego-motion Learning for autonomous robot obstacle avoidance8
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey8
Learning dexterity from human hand motion in internet videos7
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing7
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection7
ViF-GTAD: A new automotive dataset with ground truth for ADAS/AD development, testing, and validation7
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots6
Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT*) and Effort Informed Trees (EIT*): Asymmetric bidirectional sampling-based path planning6
Kernel-GPA: A globally optimal solution to deformable SLAM in closed-form6
Continuum concentric push–pull robots: A Cosserat rod model6
Modelify: An approach to incrementally build 3D object models for map completion6
SAM-RL: Sensing-aware model-based reinforcement learning via differentiable physics-based simulation and rendering6
Rubik Tables and object rearrangement6
Learning reward functions from diverse sources of human feedback: Optimally integrating demonstrations and preferences6
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications5
Continuum robot state estimation using Gaussian process regression on SE(3)5
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics5
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning5
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading5
Convex risk-bounded continuous-time trajectory planning and tube design in uncertain nonconvex environments5
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map5
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems4
Modal-graph 3D shape servoing of deformable objects with raw point clouds4
Supervised Bayesian specification inference from demonstrations4
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging4
Impact-aware task-space quadratic-programming control4
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks4
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 20204
Morphological symmetries in robotics4
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality4
Robust feedback motion planning via contraction theory4
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper4
Reinforcement learning for versatile, dynamic, and robust bipedal locomotion control4
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation4
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios4
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches4
Planning to chronicle: Optimal policies for narrative observation of unpredictable events3
FurnitureBench: Reproducible real-world benchmark for long-horizon complex manipulation3
BiCap: A novel bi-modal dataset of daily living dual-arm manipulation actions3
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms3
Editorial3
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games3
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation3
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning3
Non-linearity Measure for POMDP-based Motion Planning3
Selected papers from WAFR 20223
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields3
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image3
Active perception network for non-myopic online exploration and visual surface coverage3
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation3
Energy budgets for coordinate invariant robot control in physical human–robot interaction3
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft3
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization3
Simplified decision making in the belief space using belief sparsification3
Stable nullspace adaptive parameter identification of 6 degree-of-freedom plant and actuator models for underactuated vehicles: Theory and experimental evaluation3
Reduced order modeling of hybrid soft-rigid robots using global, local, and state-dependent strain parameterization3
WildScenes: A benchmark for 2D and 3D semantic segmentation in large-scale natural environments3
Reactive navigation in partially familiar planar environments using semantic perceptual feedback3
Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 20183
Magnetic manipulation of unknown and complex conductive nonmagnetic objects with application in the remediation of space debris2
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot2
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation2
Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs2
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset2
Contact-initiated shared control strategies for four-arm supernumerary manipulation with foot interfaces2
Optimal potential shaping on SE(3) via neural ordinary differential equations on Lie groups2
HeLiPR: Heterogeneous LiDAR dataset for inter-LiDAR place recognition under spatiotemporal variations2
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers2
GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling2
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution2
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains2
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery2
Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion2
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark2
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration2
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages2
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs2
Representation, learning, and planning algorithms for geometric task and motion planning2
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles2
Selected papers from ISRR'20192
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion2
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics2
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning2
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains2
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps2
Dual-arm shaping of soft objects in 3D based on visual servoing and online FEM simulations2
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