OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 8. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	153
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	146
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	117
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	99
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	84
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	67
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	53
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	48
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	44
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	44
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	42
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	39
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	38
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	34
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	31
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	31
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	28
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	27
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	26
Morphological symmetries in robotics	25
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	25
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	25
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	25
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	25
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	25

Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	22
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	21
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	21
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth	20
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	20
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	20
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages	20
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	20
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	19
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	19
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research	19
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	19
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	18
Task space adaptation via the learning of gait controllers of magnetic soft millirobots	18
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	18
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	17
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	16
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	16
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	16
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	16
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	15
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	15
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	15
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	15
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	14
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	14
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots	13
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	13
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	13
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	12
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	12
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	12
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	12
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	12
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	12
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	12
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	12
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	11
Unified force-impedance control	11
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	11
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	11
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	11
Selected papers from WAFR2020	11
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	10
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	10
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	10
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	10
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image	9
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	9

Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	9
Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2018	9
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	8
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	8
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	8
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	8
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	8