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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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	124
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	82
Motion-based communication for robotic swarms in exploration missions	75
Reinforcement learning with model-based feedforward inputs for robotic table tennis	63
AEB-RRT: an adaptive extension bidirectional RRT algorithm	62
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	61
High-frame rate homography and visual odometry by tracking binary features from the focal plane	53
Semantic anomaly detection with large language models	45
Hierarchical topometric representation of 3D robotic maps	44
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	38
Agile and stable running locomotion control for an untethered and one-legged hopping robot	37
AlphaPilot: autonomous drone racing	35
A Bayesian tracker for synthesizing mobile robot behaviour from demonstration	34
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	32
Laplacian regularized motion tomography for underwater vehicle flow mapping with sporadic localization measurements	31
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	31
A penalized batch-Bayesian approach to informative path planning for decentralized swarm robotic search	31
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	30
Calibration method for a breast intervention robot based on four-dimensional ultrasound image guidance	29
Complex environment localization system using complementary ceiling and ground map information	29
Pseudo-trilateral adversarial training for domain adaptive traversability prediction	29
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	28
Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification	27
Search-based configuration planning and motion control algorithms for a snake-like robot performing load-intensive operations	26
Herding stochastic autonomous agents via local control rules and online target selection strategies	25

A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	24
Scalable multirobot planning for informed spatial sampling	23
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	23
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	22
Point-based metric and topological localisation between lidar and overhead imagery	20
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	18
Humans as path-finders for mobile robots using teach-by-showing navigation	16
Towards neuromorphic FPGA-based infrastructures for a robotic arm	16
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	16
Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints	15
Sequence-based visual place recognition: a scale-space approach for boundary detection	15
Bridging the reality gap in drone swarm development through mixed reality	15
Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling with temporospatial constraints	14
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	13
Editor’s Note	12
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	12
Editorial	12
Maximal coverage problems with routing constraints using cross-entropy Monte Carlo tree search	12
Robust bounded control scheme for quadrotor vehicles under high dynamic disturbances	12
Annotation scaffolds for manipulating articulated objects	11
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	11
Active object perception using Bayesian classifiers and haptic exploration	11
Dynamic task allocation approaches for coordinated exploration of Subterranean environments	10
Correction: Planning under uncertainty for safe robot exploration using gaussian process prediction	9
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	9
Formation control for autonomous fixed-wing air vehicles with strict speed constraints	9
Deep introspective SLAM: deep reinforcement learning based approach to avoid tracking failure in visual SLAM	9
Active velocity estimation using light curtains via self-supervised multi-armed bandits	9
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	8
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	8
Affordance-based robot object retrieval	8
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	8
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	7
Continuous planning for inertial-aided systems	7
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	7
An empowerment-based solution to robotic manipulation tasks with sparse rewards	7
SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	7
AGRI-SLAM: a real-time stereo visual SLAM for agricultural environment	7
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	7
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	7
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	7
External force observer aided push recovery for torque-controlled biped robots	6
Learning to summarize and answer questions about a virtual robot’s past actions	6
On robot grasp learning using equivariant models	6
Boosting the hospital by integrating mobile robotic assistance systems: a comprehensive classification of the risks to be addressed	6
Adaptive submodular inverse reinforcement learning for spatial search and map exploration	6
Decentralized probabilistic multi-robot collision avoidance using buffered uncertainty-aware Voronoi cells	6
Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	6
User intent estimation during robot learning using physical human robot interaction primitives	6
Learning and planning with logical automata	6

Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	6
Continuous control actions learning and adaptation for robotic manipulation through reinforcement learning	6
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	6
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	5
Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering	5
UVS: underwater visual SLAM—a robust monocular visual SLAM system for lifelong underwater operations	5
Automated camera-exposure control for robust localization in varying illumination environments	5
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	5
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	5
That was not what I was aiming at! Differentiating human intent and outcome in a physically dynamic throwing task	5
A unified control strategy for autonomous aerial vehicles	5
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	5
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	5
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	4
Inverse reinforcement learning for autonomous navigation via differentiable semantic mapping and planning	4
Collaborative programming of robotic task decisions and recovery behaviors	4
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	4
Expanding human visual field: online learning of assistive camera views by an aerial co-robot	4
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	4
Automated group motion control of magnetically actuated millirobots	4
ProgPrompt: program generation for situated robot task planning using large language models	3
Dual asymmetric limit surfaces and their applications to planar manipulation	3
Optical flow-based control for micro air vehicles: an efficient data-driven incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion approach	3
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	3
Decentralized swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue operations without explicit communication	3
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	3
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	3
How to train your differentiable filter	3
Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey	3
Adaptive optimal controller design for an unbalanced UAV with slung load	3
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	3
Semantic visual SLAM in dynamic environment	3
Large language models for chemistry robotics	3
LatticeNet: fast spatio-temporal point cloud segmentation using permutohedral lattices	3