OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Autonomous Robots is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	173
Wild visual navigation: fast traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision	134
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	126
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	85
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	60
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	60
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	56
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	56
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	54
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	50
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	48
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	48
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	42
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	42
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	39
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	39
Persistent multi-resource coverage with heterogeneous multi-robot teams	39
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	37
Tactile-based object retrieval from granular media	33
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	26
Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	25
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	25
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	23
Reconfigurable robot swarms for terrain traversal with passive coupling mechanisms	19
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	19

Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	15
Cooperative multi-UAV coverage mission planning platform for remote sensing applications	15
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	15
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	15
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	14
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	14
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	14
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	14
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	13
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	13
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	13
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	12
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	12
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	11
Es-cbf: an energy sufficiency extension for sample based path planners to enable long term autonomy	11
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	11
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	10
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	10
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	10
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	10
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	10
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10