OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 36. 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
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	149
Editorial Board	127
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	106
Active control strategy of lower limb exoskeleton based on variable admittance control	99
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	84
Automatic lane change based on dynamic occupancy of an adaptive gird zone	81
Approaching motion planning for mobile manipulators considering the uncertainty of self-positioning and object’s pose estimation	77
Learning to Control Highly Accelerated Ballistic Movements on Muscular Robots	73
Towards a systematic computational framework for modeling multi-agent decision-making at micro level for smart vehicles in a smart world	71
Advancing autonomous SLAM systems: Integrating YOLO object detection and enhanced loop closure techniques for robust environment mapping	67
Gait rehabilitation training robot: A motion-intention recognition approach with safety and convenience	65
Robust iterative value conversion: Deep reinforcement learning for neurochip-driven edge robots	65
Editorial Board	65
A survey of Semantic Reasoning frameworks for robotic systems	64
Design and control of an aerial-ground tethered tendon-driven continuum robot with hybrid routing	62
A lumen-adapted navigation scheme with spatial awareness from monocular vision for autonomous robotic endoscopy	60
A review of UAV autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments	58
Intelligent decision-making system for multiple marine autonomous surface ships based on deep reinforcement learning	57
A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI	55
High-Safety Path Optimization for Mobile Robots Using an Improved Ant Colony Algorithm with Integrated Repulsive Field Rules	54
A causal-based approach to explain, predict and prevent failures in robotic tasks	53
Vision-based manipulation of deformable and rigid objects using subspace projections of 2D contours	50
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	50
Multi-agent planning and coordination for automated aircraft ground handling	49
Development and application of key technologies for Guide Dog Robot: A systematic literature review	46

Editorial Board	44
Improving MapReduce heterogeneous performance using KNN fair share scheduling	43
Correspondenceless scan-to-map-scan matching of homoriented 2D scans for mobile robot localisation	43
Editorial Board	42
A modular functional framework for the design and evaluation of multi-robot navigation	42
Special issue on the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17)	41
Software engineering for robotics	41
Automatic extension of a symbolic mobile manipulation skill set	39
Editorial Board	37
Adaptation of Hand Exoskeletons for Occupational Augmentation: A Literature Review	37
Extremum seeking control for the trajectory tracking of a skid steering vehicle via averaged sub-gradient integral sliding-mode theory	36