Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Article	Citations
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	172
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	148
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	126
Editorial Board	118
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	100
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	100
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	96
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	90
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	90
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	89
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	88
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	81
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	77
Editorial Board	76
Enhancing Fault Detection and Performance for UAVs with Digital Twin Systems in Search and Rescue Missions	76
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	74
Editorial Board	70
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iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	63
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	61
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	55
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	55
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	54
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	53
Cooperative Artificial Intelligence for underwater robotic swarm	53

Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	53
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	52
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	48
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	47
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	47
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	45
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	44
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	43
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	43
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	42
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	40
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	39
A survey of multi-agent Human–Robot Interaction systems	39
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	39
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	38
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	37
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	37
A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future	36
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	35
Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	35
Editorial Board	34
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Environment-adaptive learning from demonstration for proactive assistance in human–robot collaborative tasks	33
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Addressing time discrepancy between digital and physical twins	32
Knowledge triggering, extraction and storage via human–robot verbal interaction	32
Sampling-based time-optimal path parameterization with jerk constraints for robotic manipulation	31
Autonomous cooperative wall building by a team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the MBZIRC 2020 competition	30
Upper limb power-assist wearable robot for handling repetitive medium- to low-weight loads in daily logistics tasks	29
Continuous mapping of large surfaces with a quality inspection robot	29
Enhancing recycling efficiency: A rapid glass bottle sorting gripper	29
Editorial Board	29
Informed sampling space driven robot informative path planning	28
DynaTM-SLAM: Fast filtering of dynamic feature points and object-based localization in dynamic indoor environments	27
Learning latent causal factors from the intricate sensor feedback of contact-rich robotic assembly tasks	27
An assistive upper-limb exoskeleton controlled by multi-modal interfaces for severely impaired patients: development and experimental assessment	27
Enhancing free-space transparency with discrete energy-based compensation in physical human–robot interaction	26
Rebar-tying Robot based on machine vision and coverage path planning	26
Robotic co-manipulation of deformable linear objects for large deformation tasks	26
Perceived safety in physical human–robot interaction—A survey	25
Towards One Shot & Pick All: 3D-OAS, an end-to-end framework for vision guided top-down parcel bin-picking using 3D-overlapping-aware instance segmentation and GNN	25
Multitask control of aerial manipulator robots with dynamic compensation based on numerical methods	25
Learning and extrapolation of robotic skills using task-parameterized equation learner networks	25
Energy efficient path planning for autonomous ground vehicles with ackermann steering	25
Corrigendum to “ICACIA: An Intelligent Context-Aware framework for COBOT in defense industry using ontological and deep learning models” [Robotics and Autonomous Systems Volume 157, November 2022, 104	24
Experimental comparison of the effect of the number of redundant rotors on the fault tolerance performance for the proposed multilayer UAV	23
A resilient solution to Range-Only SLAM based on a decoupled landmark range and bearing reconstruction	23
Informed expansion for informative path planning via online distribution learning	23
Model checking embedded adaptive cruise controllers	23
Editorial Board	23

Real-time terrain anomaly perception for safe robot locomotion using a digital double framework	23
VR-supported method for studying the MPC algorithm in controlling snake robot motion	23
Finite-time disturbance reconstruction and robust fractional-order controller design for hybrid port-Hamiltonian dynamics of biped robots	23
Editorial Board	23
Learning temporal maps of dynamics for mobile robots	23
Humanoid motion generation in a world of stairs	23
A nonlinear state estimation framework for humanoid robots	23
A Collision-free path planning approach based on rule guided lazy-PRM with repulsion field for gantry welding robots	22
Visual detection and tracking algorithms for minimally invasive surgical instruments: A comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art	22
Practical whole-body elasto-geometric calibration of a humanoid robot: Application to the TALOS robot	22
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Entropy-based tuning approach for Q-learning in an unstructured environment	22
A robust and compliant framework for legged mobile manipulators using virtual model control and whole-body control	22
Improving obstacle boundary representations in predictive occupancy mapping	22
A Riemannian metric for geometry-aware singularity avoidance by articulated robots	22
Depth accuracy analysis of the ZED 2i Stereo Camera in an indoor Environment	21
Towards field deployment of MAVs in adaptive exploration of GPS-denied subterranean environments	21
Human leading or following preferences: Effects on human perception of the robot and the human–robot collaboration	21
Real-time adaptive impedance compensator using simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation for enhanced physical human–robot interaction transparency	21
Evaluation of safety-related performance of wearable lower limb exoskeleton robot (WLLER): A systematic review	21
Automatic control for swing-free control of suctioned products in robotic pick-and-place operations	21
Correct and efficient UAV missions based on temporal planning and in-flight hybrid simulations	21
Robust adaptive control for aggressive quadrotor maneuvers via 20
A Signal Temporal Logic approach for task-based coordination of multi-aerial systems: A wind turbine inspection case study	20
Fall analysis and prediction for humanoids	20
Evaluating the influence of UEXO-II on human performance: A torque and muscle level analysis	20
Inspection robot GPS outages localization based on error Kalman filter and deep learning	20
A study of robotic search strategy for multi-radiation sources in unknown environments	20
Adaptation in a variable parallel elastic actuator for rotary mechanisms towards energy efficiency	20
Robotic assembly strategy via reinforcement learning based on force and visual information	19
A survey of demonstration learning	19
Editorial Board	19
DROPO: Sim-to-real transfer with offline domain randomization	19
Semi-autonomous unmanned aerial manipulator teleoperation for push-and-slide inspection using parallel force/vision control	19
Path tracking control strategy for off-road 4WS4WD vehicle based on robust model predictive control	19
A feedback-based manoeuvre planner for nonprehensile magnetic micromanipulation of large microscopic biological objects	19
ECO-CPP: Energy constrained online coverage path planning	19
Interaction-aware motion planning and control based on game theory with human-in-the-loop validation	19
CMFFN: An efficient cross-modal feature fusion network for semantic segmentation	19
Virtual attention points: Bridging human movement characteristics and dexterous robot motion generation	18
“Reinforcement learning particle swarm optimization based trajectory planning of autonomous ground vehicle using 2D LiDAR point cloud”	18
Lifelong mapping in the wild: Novel strategies for ensuring map stability and accuracy over time evaluated on thousands of robots	18
Efficient reinforcement learning with least-squares soft Bellman residual for robotic grasping	18
Precise hand–eye calibration method based on spatial distance and epipolar constraints	18
Pyramidal 3D feature fusion on polar grids for fast and robust traversability analysis on CPU	18
Hybrid compliant control with variable-stiffness wrist for assembly and grinding application	18
Benchmarking pose estimation for robot manipulation	18
Towards real-time forest inventory using handheld LiDAR	18
Vibration suppression of redundantly controlled cable-driven parallel robots	17
Self-supervised prediction of the intention to interact with a service robot	17
Editorial Board	17
Safe deep learning-based global path planning using a fast collision-free path generator	17
A multimodal loop closure fusion for autonomous vehicles SLAM	17
Comparative analysis of multiple YOLO-based target detectors and trackers for ADAS in edge devices	17
Delay compensated state estimation for Telepresence robot navigation	17
Hybrid brain-computer interfacing paradigm for assistive robotics	17
Symbolic representation of what robots are taught in one demonstration	17
A collaborative robot for COVID-19 oropharyngeal swabbing	17
Toward best practices in embedded ethics: Suggestions for interdisciplinary technology development	17
Reinforcement learning control for the swimming motions of a beaver-like, single-legged robot based on biological inspiration	17
Safe multi-agent drone control using control barrier functions and acceleration fields	17
Automatic extension of a symbolic mobile manipulation skill set	16
Extremum seeking control for the trajectory tracking of a skid steering vehicle via averaged sub-gradient integral sliding-mode theory	16
DAPTP: Distributed Awareness Planner using Time Potential for dynamic target search	16
Fusion innovation: Multi-scale dilated collaborative model of ConvNeXt and MSDA for fault diagnosis	16
Neuro compensated sliding mode control with nonlinear surfaces for pipe crack sealing manipulator	16
When and where to step: Terrain-aware real-time footstep location and timing optimization for bipedal robots	16
Design and control of an aerial-ground tethered tendon-driven continuum robot with hybrid routing	16
Active control strategy of lower limb exoskeleton based on variable admittance control	16
A lumen-adapted navigation scheme with spatial awareness from monocular vision for autonomous robotic endoscopy	16
An empirical evaluation of learning-based multi-agent path finding algorithms in warehouse environments	16
Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target	16
Learning to Control Highly Accelerated Ballistic Movements on Muscular Robots	16
Implementation and observability analysis of visual-inertial-wheel odometry with robust initialization and online extrinsic calibration	16
The XBot2 real-time middleware for robotics	16
An overactuated aerial robot based on cooperative quadrotors attached through passive universal joints: Modeling, control and 6-DoF trajectory tracking	15
RobustStateNet: Robust ego vehicle state estimation for Autonomous Driving	15
Editorial Board	15
Development of a soft gripper for replicating human grasps in forest nursery tasks	15
Design and development of a locomotion interface for virtual reality lower-body haptic interaction	15

Editorial Board	15
MOVRO2: Loosely coupled monocular visual radar odometry using factor graph optimization	15
A feasibility-driven MPC scheme for robust gait generation in humanoids	15
Reinforcement learning-based optimal formation control of multiple robotic rollers in cooperative rolling compaction	15
Editorial Board	15
A review of advances in underwater humanoid robots for human–machine cooperation	15
Mobile robot’s path-planning and path-tracking in static and dynamic environments: Dynamic programming approach	14
MVGrasp: Real-time multi-view 3D object grasping in highly cluttered environments	14
Collision-free path planning for multiple robots using efficient turn-angle assignment	14
Ring Gaussian Mixture Modelling and Regression for collaborative robots	14
Direct trajectory optimization of macro-micro robotic system using a Gauss pseudospectral framework	14
Overcoming some drawbacks of Dynamic Movement Primitives	14
A constraint embedding approach for dynamics modeling of parallel kinematic manipulators with hybrid limbs	14
LiODOM: Adaptive local mapping for robust LiDAR-only odometry	14
Light deep learning models enriched with Entangled features for RGB-D semantic segmentation	14
A new approach to smooth path planning of Ackerman mobile robot based on improved ACO algorithm and B-spline curve	14
Consistency optimal coordination control of underground heavy-load robot in nonstructural environment	14
Online task segmentation by merging symbolic and data-driven skill recognition during kinesthetic teaching	14
STSLAM: Robust visual SLAM in dynamic scenes via image segmentation and instance tracking	14
Quasi-static balancing for biped robot to perform extreme postures using ducted-fan propulsion system	14
Evolutionary Tabu Inverted Ant Cellular Automata with Elitist Inertia for swarm robotics as surrogate method in surveillance task using e-Puck architecture	14
Estimation of aerodynamic effects in coaxial rotors for UAVs using fractional Unscented Kalman Filter and DCSV	14
Multi-robot task allocation in disaster response: Addressing dynamic tasks with deadlines and robots with range and payload constraints	13
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Design, control and evaluation of a treadmill-based Pelvic Exoskeleton (PeXo) with self-paced walking mode	13
An analytical differential kinematics-based method for controlling tendon-driven continuum robots	13
Hierarchical probabilistic graphical models for multi-UAV cooperative pursuit in dynamic environments	13
Social robot navigation through constrained optimization: A comprehensive study of uncertainty-based objectives and constraints in the simulated and real world	13
Visual place recognition for aerial imagery: A survey	13
Robotic picking in dense clutter via domain invariant learning from synthetic dense cluttered rendering	13
Special Issue on the 10th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2021)	13
Mapless navigation via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with memory-decaying novelty	13
Optimization techniques for Multi-Robot Task Allocation problems: Review on the state-of-the-art	13
LightDepth: A resource efficient depth estimation approach for dealing with ground truth sparsity via curriculum learning	13
Sobol sequence RRT* and numerical optimal joint algorithm-based automatic parking trajectory planning of four-wheel steering vehicles	13
Performance analysis of buck converter with fractional PID controller using hybrid technique	13
Tracking control with active and passive training cycle switching for rehabilitation training walker	13
APPL: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning	13
Defense against smart invaders with swarms of sweeping agents	13
UV Disinfection Robots: A Review	13
A distributed multi-robot task allocation method for time-constrained dynamic collective transport	12
Automation of polymer pressing by robotic handling with in-process parameter optimization	12
Lane-changing and overtaking trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles with multi-performance optimization considering static and dynamic obstacles	12
Autonomous GPU-based UAS for inspection of confined spaces: Application to marine vessel classification	12
The human-following strategy for mobile robots in mixed environments	12
Tendon-driven based extensible soft robot with variable stiffness	12
A fault-tolerant sensor fusion in mobile robots using multiple model Kalman filters	12
RGB-D-based categorical object pose and shape estimation: Methods, datasets, and evaluation	12
Distributed multi-robot potential-field-based exploration with submap-based mapping and noise-augmented strategy	12
Fault tolerant position control of soft bending actuator in the presence of actuator leakage	12
Online learning of MPC for autonomous racing	12
Advancements in amphibious robot navigation through wheeled odometer uncertainty extension and distributed information fusion	12
Sharing visual-inertial data for collaborative decentralized simultaneous localization and mapping	12
OGATE: A framework for autonomous controllers assessment	12