OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation	377
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	197
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	158
Fault-tolerant decentralized multi-sensor link velocity and acceleration estimation for elastic-joint robots	118
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning	107
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	102
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	96
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	85
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	76
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	57
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	54
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand	50
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	50
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	44
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	43
Tactile robotics: Past and future	42
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	41
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	40
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	40
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	40
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	36
Design of supernumerary robotic limbs for the augmentation of astronauts performing partial-gravity extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)	36
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	36
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	36
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	35

A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	34
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	34
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	34
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	33
Morphological symmetries in robotics	33
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	33
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	30
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	30
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	30
Multiscale deformable objects manipulation via wavelet-decomposed boundary element method	29
Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations	28
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	27
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	27
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	26
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback	26
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	26
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	24
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	24
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	23
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	23
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	22
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	21
Active 6D pose estimation for textureless objects using multi-view RGB frames	21
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	20
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	19
K2MUSE: A human lower-limb multimodal walking dataset spanning task and acquisition variability for rehabilitation robotics	19
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	19
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	18
Sampling-based constrained motion planning with products of experts	18
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	18
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	18
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	17
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	17
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	17
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	16
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	16
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	16
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	16
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	16
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	15
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	15
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	15
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements	15
Adaptive planning for assistive-care robotic missions	15
Unified force-impedance control	14
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	14
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	14

FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	13
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	13
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	13
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	13
Selected papers from WAFR2020	13
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	13
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	13
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	13
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks	12
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	12
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	12
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration	12
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	12
Why we must trust ourselves	12
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	11
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot	11
A ground robot dataset for multi-sensor navigation in diverse environments	11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	11
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.	11
Gravity-aware proactive joint-level compensation for portable soft slender robots using a single IMU and real-time simulation	11
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles	11
Electro-SLAM: Distributed underwater multi-robot SLAM via bio-inspired active and passive electro-sensing	11
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	11
Postural virtual fixtures for ergonomic physical interactions with supernumerary robotic bodies	11
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line	11