OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 40. 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
Pseudo-kinematic trajectory control and planning of tracked vehicles	253
Editorial Board	223
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	176
Adaptive game-theoretic decision-making with driving style recognition for autonomous vehicles in uninterrupted traffic flows at intersections	169
Towards robot affective appraisal linking inner speech and emotion	136
Analysis of vision-based Air-to-Air UAV detection using YOLO based architectures	135
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	134
Enhancing fault detection and performance for UAVs with digital twin systems in search and rescue missions	112
Design and development of a novel desktop robot for orthodontic archwire forming	109
Robust fault-tolerant control of quadrotors under simultaneous multiple faults and input/state delays	109
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	107
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	85
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	78
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	77
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	76
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	73
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	68
Estimation of lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton torque by combining dual-joint parameter identification and neural network	66
Phase-independent Dynamic Movement Primitives with applications to human–robot co-manipulation and time optimal planning	63
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	62
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	60
System identification and model reference adaptive control of bipedal locomotion with neural networks	57
Spiking control of dielectric elastomer actuators	56
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	51
Graduated non-convex feature-metric-based 6D object pose refinement via deep reinforcement learning	51

dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	51
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	50
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	47
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	47
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	45
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	44
Editorial Board	43
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	42
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	41
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	41
Editorial Board	41
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	41
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	41
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	40
A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future	40