OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 12. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Human motion trajectory prediction: a survey	380
How to train your robot with deep reinforcement learning: lessons we have learned	228
Distributed multi-robot collision avoidance via deep reinforcement learning for navigation in complex scenarios	161
A soft manipulator for efficient delicate grasping in shallow water: Modeling, control, and real-world experiments	124
Cable manipulation with a tactile-reactive gripper	94
Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions dataset	90
Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs	80
Ford Multi-AV Seasonal Dataset	71
Dynamic locomotion for passive-ankle biped robots and humanoids using whole-body locomotion control	62
A hip–knee–ankle exoskeleton emulator for studying gait assistance	59
Towards 3D LiDAR-based semantic scene understanding of 3D point cloud sequences: The SemanticKITTI Dataset	58
Hierarchical control of soft manipulators towards unstructured interactions	54
Bridging the gap between safety and real-time performance in receding-horizon trajectory design for mobile robots	54
Search and rescue under the forest canopy using multiple UAVs	52
NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint	52
Design and characterization of a hybrid soft gripper with active palm pose control	51
On infusing reachability-based safety assurance within planning frameworks for human–robot vehicle interactions	50
Large-scale, real-time visual–inertial localization revisited	49
Design of multirotor aerial vehicles: A taxonomy based on input allocation	48
ALFA: A dataset for UAV fault and anomaly detection	38
Design and optimal control of a tiltrotor micro-aerial vehicle for efficient omnidirectional flight	38
Three-dimensional independent control of multiple magnetic microrobots via inter-agent forces	37
Manipulating deformable objects by interleaving prediction, planning, and control	36
Reactive planar non-prehensile manipulation with hybrid model predictive control	35
Learning compositional models of robot skills for task and motion planning	34

Multimodal trajectory optimization for motion planning	33
Closed-loop control of soft continuum manipulators under tip follower actuation	32
Boreas: A multi-season autonomous driving dataset	32
Biologically inspired electrostatic artificial muscles for insect-sized robots	32
A modular, multi-arm concentric tube robot system with application to transnasal surgery for orbital tumors	30
Geometry-aware manipulability learning, tracking, and transfer	29
Comparing model-based control methods for simultaneous stiffness and position control of inflatable soft robots	27
Inverse optimal control from incomplete trajectory observations	25
On the motion/stiffness decoupling property of articulated soft robots with application to model-free torque iterative learning control	25
Data-driven Koopman operators for model-based shared control of human–machine systems	24
Compliant gripper design, prototyping, and modeling using screw theory formulation	23
The UMA-VI dataset: Visual–inertial odometry in low-textured and dynamic illumination environments	23
Reactive sampling-based path planning with temporal logic specifications	23
Relative multiplicative extended Kalman filter for observable GPS-denied navigation	22
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	22
HyP-DESPOT: A hybrid parallel algorithm for online planning under uncertainty	22
Robust and efficient forward, differential, and inverse kinematics using dual quaternions	21
The effects of reduced-gravity on planetary rover mobility	21
Concept2Robot: Learning manipulation concepts from instructions and human demonstrations	21
Learning reward functions from diverse sources of human feedback: Optimally integrating demonstrations and preferences	21
Multimodal estimation and communication of latent semantic knowledge for robust execution of robot instructions	20
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system	20
Modeling biomechanical interaction between soft tissue and soft robotic instruments: importance of constitutive anisotropic hyperelastic formulations	20
FSMI: Fast computation of Shannon mutual information for information-theoretic mapping	20
Hand closure model for planning top grasps with soft robotic hands	19
Decentralized Multi-agent information-theoretic control for target estimation and localization: finding gas leaks	18
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey	18
ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset	18
Multimodal interaction-aware motion prediction for autonomous street crossing	17
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection	16
Joint-level force sensing for indirect hybrid force/position control of continuum robots with friction	16
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots	16
A resource-aware approach to collaborative loop-closure detection with provable performance guarantees	15
Learning stabilizable nonlinear dynamics with contraction-based regularization	14
Coordination of lateral body bending and leg movements for sprawled posture quadrupedal locomotion	14
RadarSLAM: A robust simultaneous localization and mapping system for all weather conditions	14
Interpreting and predicting tactile signals for the SynTouch BioTac	14
Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT) and Effort Informed Trees (EIT): Asymmetric bidirectional sampling-based path planning	14
Representation, learning, and planning algorithms for geometric task and motion planning	13
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper	13
Multi-fidelity black-box optimization for time-optimal quadrotor maneuvers	13
The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises	13
Contact-initiated shared control strategies for four-arm supernumerary manipulation with foot interfaces	13
Exactly sparse Gaussian variational inference with application to derivative-free batch nonlinear state estimation	13
Enabling impedance-based physical human–multi–robot collaboration: Experiments with four torque-controlled manipulators	12
GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling	12
Sniffing out fugitive methane emissions: autonomous remote gas inspection with a mobile robot	12
Energy budgets for coordinate invariant robot control in physical human–robot interaction	12
Self-supervised learning for using overhead imagery as maps in outdoor range sensor localization	12
Video dataset of human demonstrations of folding clothing for robotic folding	12

Combining learned and analytical models for predicting action effects from sensory data	12
PanoraMIS: An ultra-wide field of view image dataset for vision-based robot-motion estimation	12
Task space adaptation via the learning of gait controllers of magnetic soft millirobots	12
Provably constant-time planning and replanning for real-time grasping objects off a conveyor belt	12
Learning from demonstration using products of experts: Applications to manipulation and task prioritization	12
AIR-Act2Act: Human–human interaction dataset for teaching non-verbal social behaviors to robots	12