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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	161
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	127
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	121
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	83
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	65
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	63
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	55
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	50
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	45
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	44
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	43
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	41
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	41
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	37
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	35
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	34
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	32
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	32
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	29
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	28
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	27
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	25
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	25
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	24
Morphological symmetries in robotics	23

Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	23
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	22
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	22
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	22
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth	21
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	21
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	20
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	20
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	19
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	18
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	18
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages	18
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	18
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	18
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	17
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	17
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	17
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	17
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	17
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research	17
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	17
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	16
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	16
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	16
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	15
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	14
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	14
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	14
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	14
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	14
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	14
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	13
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	13
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	13
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	13
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	13
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	13
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	13
Unified force-impedance control	12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	12
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	12
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	12
Selected papers from WAFR2020	11
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	11
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	11
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	10
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	10
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	10
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	10
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	10

Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	9
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	9
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	9
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	9
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	9
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	9
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image	8
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	8
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	8
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration	8
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	8