OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 10. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	179
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	136
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	133
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	126
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	93
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	68
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	62
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	61
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	58
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	55
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	52
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	51
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	48
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	44
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	39
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	36
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	36
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	35
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	34
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	32
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	31
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	31
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	29
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	28
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	26

Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	25
Morphological symmetries in robotics	24
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	24
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	23
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	23
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	23
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	23
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	22
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	22
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth	22
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages	22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	21
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	21
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	21
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	20
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	20
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research	20
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	20
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	19
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	19
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	19
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	18
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	17
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	17
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	17
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	16
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	16
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	16
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	16
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	15
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	15
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	15
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	15
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	15
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	15
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	14
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	14
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	13
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	13
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	13
Unified force-impedance control	13
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	13
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements	13
Selected papers from WAFR2020	12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	12
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	11
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	11
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	11

Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	11
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	11
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	11
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	11
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	11
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image	10
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	10
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration	10
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks	10
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	10
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.	10