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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment	146
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators	137
USTC FLICAR: A sensors fusion dataset of LiDAR-inertial-camera for heavy-duty autonomous aerial work robots	108
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	91
The split-belt rimless wheel	87
Real-time recognition of team behaviors by multisensory graph-embedded robot learning	69
The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises	62
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	48
Decentralized trajectory planning for quadrotor swarm in cluttered environments with goal convergence guarantee	46
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	41
Investigating strategies enabling novice users to teach plannable hierarchical tasks to robots	40
Nonverbal social behavior generation for social robots using end-to-end learning	40
Unified force-impedance control	38
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	35
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	32
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	30
Motion planning by learning the solution manifold in trajectory optimization	27
Nonlinear model predictive dynamic positioning of a remotely operated vehicle with wave disturbance preview	24
SACBP: Belief space planning for continuous-time dynamical systems via stochastic sequential action control	24
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control	24
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles	23
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	22
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	22
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal	21
Selected papers from RSS2022	21

Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation	21
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders	20
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds	20
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	19
Time-optimal ergodic search: Multiscale coverage in minimum time	19
RoBUTCHER: A novel robotic meat factory cell platform	19
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design	19
Semantically controllable augmentations for generalizable robot learning	19
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction	18
Optimizing contact patterns for robot locomotion via geometric mechanics	18
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	17
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	17
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	16
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control	15
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	15
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	15
Active preference-based Gaussian process regression for reward learning and optimization	15
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	15
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock	14
Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach	14
Combining physics and deep learning to learn continuous-time dynamics models	14
FusionPortableV2: A unified multi-sensor dataset for generalized SLAM across diverse platforms and scalable environments	14
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	13
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators	13
TRansPose: Large-scale multispectral dataset for transparent object	13
Uncertainty-aware visually-attentive navigation using deep neural networks	13
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	12
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision	12
ASIMO: Agent-centric scene representation in multi-object manipulation	12
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	12
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed	11
Retraction Notice	10
A bearing-angle approach for unknown target motion analysis based on visual measurements	10
Selected papers from WAFR2020	10
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space	10
Design of multirotor aerial vehicles: A taxonomy based on input allocation	10
Sim-to-real transfer of adaptive control parameters for AUV stabilisation under current disturbance	10
Hybrid sparse monocular visual odometry with online photometric calibration	10
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	9
Dataset and Benchmark: Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception	9
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	9
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	9
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments	9
A Koopman-based residual modeling approach for the control of a soft robot arm	9
Model-predictive optimal control of ferrofluidic microrobots in three-dimensional space	9
Physical interaction as communication: Learning robot objectives online from human corrections	9
Locally active globally stable dynamical systems: Theory, learning, and experiments	8
A wireless signal-based sensing framework for robotics	8
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	8

DUEL: Depth visUal Ego-motion Learning for autonomous robot obstacle avoidance	8
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	8
Generalizable whole-body global manipulation of deformable linear objects by dual-arm robot in 3-D constrained environments	8