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Papers

(The median citation count of Autonomous Robots is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	136
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	87
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	84
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	80
Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling with temporospatial constraints	68
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	64
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	55
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	48
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	46
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	45
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	42
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	36
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	36
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	36
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	34
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	34
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	33
A unified control strategy for autonomous aerial vehicles	33
LatticeNet: fast spatio-temporal point cloud segmentation using permutohedral lattices	32
Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering	31
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	30
Guest Editorial: Special issue on “Topological methods in robotics”	29
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	26
Leveraging experience in lazy search	26
Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	24

Autonomous foraging with a pack of robots based on repulsion, attraction and influence	23
A topological extension of movement primitives for curvature modulation and sampling of robot motion	21
Semi-dense visual-inertial odometry and mapping for computationally constrained platforms	21
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	21
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	21
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	18
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	17
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	17
Cooperative multi-UAV coverage mission planning platform for remote sensing applications	17
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	16
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	14
Correspondence identification for collaborative multi-robot perception under uncertainty	14
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	13
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	12
Learning and planning with logical automata	12
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	12
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	12
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	12
Annotation scaffolds for manipulating articulated objects	12
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	12
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	11
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	11
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	10
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	9
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	9
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	9
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	9
TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models	8
Embodied scene description	8
An anytime Visibility–Voronoi graph-search algorithm for generating robust and feasible unmanned surface vehicle paths	8
Text2Motion: from natural language instructions to feasible plans	8
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	8
An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios	8
Learning latent actions to control assistive robots	8
Terrain traversability prediction through self-supervised learning and unsupervised domain adaptation on synthetic data	8
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	8
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	8
A Bayesian tracker for synthesizing mobile robot behaviour from demonstration	7
An overview of space-variant and active vision mechanisms for resource-constrained human inspired robotic vision	7
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	7
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	7
A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	7
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	7
Learning scalable and efficient communication policies for multi-robot collision avoidance	7
Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints	7
Editor’s Note	7
Adaptive submodular inverse reinforcement learning for spatial search and map exploration	6

Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	6
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	6
Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	6
SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	6
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	6
Learning temporal logic formulas from suboptimal demonstrations: theory and experiments	5
Large language models for chemistry robotics	5
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	5
Stochastic spatio-temporal optimization for control and co-design of systems in robotics and applied physics	5
R $$\times $$ R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training	5
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	5
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	5
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	5
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	5
Shortest coordinated motions for square robots	5
Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey	5
Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing	5
Data-driven gait model for bipedal locomotion over continuous changing speeds and inclines	4
VIR-SLAM: visual, inertial, and ranging SLAM for single and multi-robot systems	4
Bayesian incremental inference update by re-using calculations from belief space planning: a new paradigm	4
OverlapNet: a siamese network for computing LiDAR scan similarity with applications to loop closing and localization	4
Isolated Kalman filtering: theory and decoupled estimator design	4
Formal design, verification and implementation of robotic controller software via RoboChart and RoboTool	4
Synthesizing compact behavior trees for probabilistic robotics domains	4
ASAP-MPC: an asynchronous update scheme for online motion planning with nonlinear model predictive control	4
Autonomous exploration with online learning of traversable yet visually rigid obstacles	3
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	3
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	3
Hierarchical topometric representation of 3D robotic maps	3
Editor’s note - Special issue on Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment	3
Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification	3
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	3
A penalized batch-Bayesian approach to informative path planning for decentralized swarm robotic search	3
Between reality and delusion: challenges of applying large language models to companion robots for open-domain dialogues with older adults	3
Topological representation of cloth state for robot manipulation	3
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	3
Herding stochastic autonomous agents via local control rules and online target selection strategies	3
Humans as path-finders for mobile robots using teach-by-showing navigation	3
Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans	3