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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	149
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	105
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	93
Wild visual navigation: fast traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision	75
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	73
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	53
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	53
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	50
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	49
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	48
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	47
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	44
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	42
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	36
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	36
LatticeNet: fast spatio-temporal point cloud segmentation using permutohedral lattices	33
A unified control strategy for autonomous aerial vehicles	33
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	32
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	30
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	30
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	29
Leveraging experience in lazy search	24
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	23
Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	23
Reconfigurable robot swarms for terrain traversal with passive coupling mechanisms	18

Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	18
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	18
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	15
Cooperative multi-UAV coverage mission planning platform for remote sensing applications	15
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	15
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	14
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	13
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	13
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	13
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	13
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	13
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	13
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	13
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	12
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	12
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	11
Es-cbf: an energy sufficiency extension for sample based path planners to enable long term autonomy	11
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	9
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	9
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	9
An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios	8
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	8
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
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	8
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	8
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	8
Terrain traversability prediction through self-supervised learning and unsupervised domain adaptation on synthetic data	8
Text2Motion: from natural language instructions to feasible plans	8
An overview of space-variant and active vision mechanisms for resource-constrained human inspired robotic vision	7
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	7
Editor’s Note	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
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	7
A Bayesian tracker for synthesizing mobile robot behaviour from demonstration	7
A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	7
SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	7
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	6
Adaptive submodular inverse reinforcement learning for spatial search and map exploration	6
Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	6
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	6
Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	6
Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey	6
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	6

Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	6
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	6
Stochastic spatio-temporal optimization for control and co-design of systems in robotics and applied physics	5
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	5
Bayesian incremental inference update by re-using calculations from belief space planning: a new paradigm	5
Shortest coordinated motions for square robots	5
Data-driven gait model for bipedal locomotion over continuous changing speeds and inclines	5
Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing	5
Large language models for chemistry robotics	5
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	5
R $$\times $$ R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training	5
Autonomous exploration with online learning of traversable yet visually rigid obstacles	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
Editor’s note - Special issue on Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment	4
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	4
Isolated Kalman filtering: theory and decoupled estimator design	4
Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans	4
Formal design, verification and implementation of robotic controller software via RoboChart and RoboTool	4
Between reality and delusion: challenges of applying large language models to companion robots for open-domain dialogues with older adults	4
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	3
Complex environment localization system using complementary ceiling and ground map information	3
Bridging the reality gap in drone swarm development through mixed reality	3
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	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
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
Robust bounded control scheme for quadrotor vehicles under high dynamic disturbances	3