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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	183
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	150
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	134
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	130
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	108
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	104
Editorial Board	104
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	103
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	93
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	90
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	89
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	85
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	81
Editorial Board	78
Editorial Board	78
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	78
Editorial Board	77
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	71
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	63
Distributed cooperative pursuit with encirclement guarantee via robust model predictive control	62
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	61
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	60
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	58
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	56
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	56

Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	54
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	53
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	53
Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	51
Identification of physically consistent dynamics parameter of the ABB IRB 360-6/1600 delta robot and its use for time-optimal motion planning under consideration of constraint forces	51
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	50
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	49
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	47
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	45
A survey of multi-agent Human–Robot Interaction systems	45
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	44
Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	44
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	42
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	40
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	40