Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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
Robust iterative value conversion: Deep reinforcement learning for neurochip-driven edge robots	65
Editorial Board	65
Gait rehabilitation training robot: A motion-intention recognition approach with safety and convenience	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
Correspondenceless scan-to-map-scan matching of homoriented 2D scans for mobile robot localisation	43
Improving MapReduce heterogeneous performance using KNN fair share scheduling	43
A modular functional framework for the design and evaluation of multi-robot navigation	42
Editorial Board	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
Task parse tree: Learning task policy from videos with task-irrelevant components	35
RevAP: A bankruptcy-based algorithm to solve the multi-agent credit assignment problem in task start threshold-based multi-agent systems	35
An incremental cross-modal transfer learning method for gesture interaction	34
Editorial Board	34
A novel collaborative path planning algorithm for 3-wheel omnidirectional Autonomous Mobile Robot	32
Overcome the Fear Of Missing Out: Active sensing UAV scanning for precision agriculture	32
Visual Predictive Control for mobile manipulator: Visibility, manipulability, and stability	32
A novel search and survey technique for unmanned aerial systems in detecting and estimating the area for wildfires	32
Person-Following Controller with Socially Acceptable Robot Motion	30
Smooth collision avoidance for the formation control of first order multi-agent systems	29
Editorial Board	29
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	29
Bio-inspired origamic pouch motors with a high contraction ratio and enhanced force output	28
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A flexible and collaborative approach to robotic box-filling and item sorting	27
Application of the unscented Kalman filter in position estimation a case study on a robot for precise positioning	27
A review of perception sensors, techniques, and hardware architectures for autonomous low-altitude UAVs in non-cooperative local obstacle avoidance	26
A telerobotic system enabling online switching among various architectures and controllers	26
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Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	26
Stable skill improvement of quadruped robot based on privileged information and curriculum guidance	26
Balanced task allocation and collision-free scheduling of multi-robot systems in large spacecraft structure manufacturing	25
A novel end-to-end vision-based architecture for agricultural human–robot collaboration in fruit picking operations	25
Comparison of motion encoding frameworks on human manipulation actions	25
Hybrid system for optimizing the robot mobile navigation using ANFIS and PSO	25
Delay compensated state estimation for Telepresence robot navigation	25
Modelling and identification methods for simulation of cable-suspended dual-arm robotic systems	24
Distributed multi-UAV shield formation based on virtual surface constraints	24
Implementation and observability analysis of visual-inertial-wheel odometry with robust initialization and online extrinsic calibration	23
Enabling intuitive and effective micromanipulation: A wearable exoskeleton-integrated macro-to-micro teleoperation system with a 3D electrothermal microgripper	23
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	23
Constrained visual predictive control of tendon-driven continuum robots	23
Distributed strategy for communication between multiple robots during formation navigation task	23
Hybrid brain-computer interfacing paradigm for assistive robotics	23
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	22
Message flow analysis with complex causal links for distributed ROS 2 systems	22
An analysis of international use of robots for COVID-19	22
Heel-strike and toe-off walking of humanoid robot using quadratic programming considering the foot contact states	22
Robust interaction control for environments having uncertainties	22

Adaptive visual servo control law for finite-time tracking to land quadrotor on moving platform using virtual reticle algorithm	22
Synthesis of strategies for autonomous surveillance on adversarial targets	22
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	21
Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target	21
Bimanual telemanipulation with force and haptic feedback through an anthropomorphic avatar system	21
Accurate and real-time human-joint-position estimation for a patient-transfer robot using a two-level convolutional neutral network	20
Dynamic Global/Local multi-layer motion planner architecture for autonomous Cognitive Surgical Robots	20
A smoothed particle hydrodynamics framework for fluid simulation in robotics	20
Near-optimal 3D trajectory design in presence of obstacles: A convolutional neural network approach	20
Trust as a metric for auction-based task assignment in a cooperative team of robots with heterogeneous capabilities	20
Fusion innovation: Multi-scale dilated collaborative model of ConvNeXt and MSDA for fault diagnosis	20
Kinematic sensitivity analysis of manipulators using a novel dimensionless index	20
A critical review and systematic design approach for innovative upper-limb rehabilitation devices	19
Cyclic policy distillation: Sample-efficient sim-to-real reinforcement learning with domain randomization	19
A review of advances in underwater humanoid robots for human–machine cooperation	19
A parallel shape formation method for swarm robotics	19
Formation control of distance and orientation based-model of an omnidirectional robot and a quadrotor UAV	19
When and where to step: Terrain-aware real-time footstep location and timing optimization for bipedal robots	18
Model-based variable impedance learning control for robotic manipulation	18
Uncertain moving obstacles avoiding method in 3D arbitrary path planning for a spherical underwater robot	18
Modeling and numerical analysis of Kangaroo lower body based on constrained dynamics of hybrid serial–parallel floating-base systems	18
Online trajectory optimization for safe autonomous overtaking with active obstacle avoidance	18
Compensation-corrective adaptive control strategy for upper-limb rehabilitation robots	17
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	17
Reinforcement learning control for the swimming motions of a beaver-like, single-legged robot based on biological inspiration	17
Robust walking stabilization strategy of humanoid robots on uneven terrain via QP-based impedance/admittance control	17
Peg-in-hole assembly in live-line maintenance based on generative mapping and searching network	17
GR-LOAM: LiDAR-based sensor fusion SLAM for ground robots on complex terrain	17
Dual-view 3D object recognition and detection via Lidar point cloud and camera image	17
Path Inference based on Voronoi Graph for Unmanned Maritime Vehicles	17
A novel robust adaptive neuro-sliding mode steering controller for autonomous ground vehicles	16
Safe deep learning-based global path planning using a fast collision-free path generator	16
Path planning algorithms in the autonomous driving system: A comprehensive review	16
Online gait generator for lower limb exoskeleton robots: Suitable for level ground, slopes, stairs, and obstacle avoidance	16
A magnetic crawler wall-climbing robot with capacity of high payload on the convex surface	16
Disturbance-aware reinforcement learning for rejecting excessive disturbances	16
The XBot2 real-time middleware for robotics	16
A survey of robot manipulation in contact	16
Design and development of software stack of an autonomous vehicle using robot operating system	16
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	15
Fractional sliding mode control for an autonomous two-wheeled vehicle equipped with an innovative gyroscopic actuator	15
Efficiency-optimized path planning algorithm for car-like mobile robots in bilateral constraint corridor environments	15
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	15
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	15
Magnetically actuated millimeter-scale biped	15
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	15
Optimal algorithm allocation for robotic network cloud systems	15
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	15
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	15
Formation tracking theory and experiment for leader-following quadrotor swarm under optical motion capture localization system	15
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	14
Ring Gaussian Mixture Modelling and Regression for collaborative robots	14
Hybrid autonomous controller for bipedal robot balance with deep reinforcement learning and pattern generators	14
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	14
An adaptive learning and control framework based on dynamic movement primitives with application to human–robot handovers	14
Convolutionally evaluated gradient first search path planning algorithm without prior global maps	14
Visual-RRT: Integrating IBVS as a steering method in an RRT planner	14
Learning stable robotic skills on Riemannian manifolds	14
Direct trajectory optimization of macro-micro robotic system using a Gauss pseudospectral framework	13
Identifying and approaching for obscured stairs	13
Temporal sampling annealing schemes for receding horizon multi-agent planning	13
Online task segmentation by merging symbolic and data-driven skill recognition during kinesthetic teaching	13
Congestion control algorithms for robotic swarms with a common target based on the throughput of the target area	13
Local-HDP: Interactive open-ended 3D object category recognition in real-time robotic scenarios	13
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	13
Dual-stage planner for autonomous radioactive source localization in unknown environments	13
A virtual force interaction scheme for multi-robot environment monitoring	13
Teleoperation by seamless transitions in real and virtual world environments	13
Reactive navigation of nonholonomic robots for search and tight circumnavigation of group objects through singular inter-object gaps	13
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	13
MVGrasp: Real-time multi-view 3D object grasping in highly cluttered environments	13
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	13
Editorial Board	13
A survey on human-aware robot navigation	13
Force analysis of the redundantly actuated parallel mechanism 2R	13
A hybrid position–rate teleoperation system	13
Mission specification and decomposition for multi-robot systems	12
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	12
Force control of lightweight series elastic systems using enhanced disturbance observers	12
Rendering the Directional TSDF for Tracking and Multi-Sensor Registration with Point-To-Plane Scale ICP	12

Task scheduling for heterogeneous agents pickup and delivery using recurrent open shop scheduling models	12
Ourobot—A sensorized closed-kinematic-chain robot for shape-adaptive rolling in rough terrain	12
Human–robot handover with prior-to-pass soft/rigid object classification via tactile glove	12
Consistency optimal coordination control of underground heavy-load robot in nonstructural environment	12
Hand-impedance measurements with robots during laparoscopy training	12
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	12
Self-reconfiguration of PARTS: A parallel reconfiguration algorithm based on surface flow	12
A memory system of a robot cognitive architecture and its implementation in ArmarX	12
A new discrete-time repetitive motion planning scheme based on pseudoinverse formulation for redundant robot manipulators with joint constrains	12
Mask-VRDet: A robust riverway panoptic perception model based on dual graph fusion of vision and 4D mmWave radar	11
A novel hybrid adhesion method and autonomous locomotion mechanism for wall-climbing robots	11
Design and experiment of a variable stiffness prosthetic knee joint using parallel elastic actuation	11
Enhancing human–robot collaborative transportation through obstacle-aware vibrotactile warning and virtual fixtures	11
Lifelong ensemble learning based on multiple representations for few-shot object recognition	11
External six-bar mechanism rehabilitation device for index finger: Development and shape synthesis	11
Robotic picking in dense clutter via domain invariant learning from synthetic dense cluttered rendering	11
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	11
Parameterised robotic system meta-model expressed by Hierarchical Petri nets	11
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	11
Robust super-twisting-based disturbance observer for autonomous underwater vehicles: Design, stability analysis, and real-time experiments	11
Flat marker: Reducing the weight of motion capture markers for micro flying robots	11
RobustStateNet: Robust ego vehicle state estimation for Autonomous Driving	11
Editorial Board	10
LiODOM: Adaptive local mapping for robust LiDAR-only odometry	10
On a dynamic and decentralized energy-aware technique for multi-robot task allocation	10
Bio-inspired classification and evolution of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs): A comprehensive review	10
A decoupled solution to heterogeneous multi-formation planning and coordination for object transportation	10
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	10
Comparing metrics for evaluating 3D map quality in natural environments	10
Light deep learning models enriched with Entangled features for RGB-D semantic segmentation	10
MOVRO2: Loosely coupled monocular visual radar odometry using factor graph optimization	10
An overactuated aerial robot based on cooperative quadrotors attached through passive universal joints: Modeling, control and 6-DoF trajectory tracking	10
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Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	10
Uncalibrated stereo vision with deep learning for 6-DOF pose estimation for a robot arm system	10
Human-robot interactions in autonomous hospital transports	10
Human-in-the-loop layered architecture for control of a wearable ankle–foot robot	10
Delta- and Kalman-filter designs for multi-sensor pose estimation on spherical mobile mapping systems	10
Sequential control barrier functions for mobile robots with dynamic temporal logic specifications	10