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Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 61. 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
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization	2575
Resilient Trajectory Propagation in Multirobot Networks	780
IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information	290
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance	223
Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle Graphs With Single Access	186
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction	175
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization	170
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control	164
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms	159
Stabilization of Robot-Environment Interaction Through Generalized Scattering Techniques	152
Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots	148
A 5-mm Untethered Crawling Robot via Self-Excited Electrostatic Vibration	145
A Sequential Composition Framework for Coordinating Multirobot Behaviors	143
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning	139
Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators	134
Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality- and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts	126
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening	122
Associating Uncertainty to Extended Poses for on Lie Group IMU Preintegration With Rotating Earth	122
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems	122
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty	121
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes	116
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies	115
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization	113
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot	111
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning	110

Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Field for Robot Navigation	110
Bio-Inspired Rapid Escape and Tight Body Flip on an At-Scale Flapping Wing Hummingbird Robot Via Reinforcement Learning	102
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern	100
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots	97
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems	91
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity	91
Fail-Safe Motion Planning for Online Verification of Autonomous Vehicles Using Convex Optimization	91
Design and Fabrication of Concentric Tube Robots: A Survey	89
2022 Index IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol. 38	89
IEEE Transactions on Robotics	88
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration	88
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning	86
Autonomous Cave Surveying With an Aerial Robot	85
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes	84
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics	83
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification	83
Modularization of 2- and 3-DoF Coupled Tendon-Driven Joints	82
Distributed Prediction of Unsafe Reconfiguration Scenarios of Modular Robotic Programmable Matter	81
Gaussian-Process-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots With Guaranteed Performance	81
Dense Robotic Packing of Irregular and Novel 3D Objects	80
Shoulder-sideWINDER (Shoulder-side Wearable INDustrial Ergonomic Robot): Design and Evaluation of Shoulder Wearable Robot With Mechanisms to Compensate for Joint Misalignment	79
Behavior Cloning-Based Robot Active Object Detection With Automatically Generated Data and Revision Method	77
Diffraction- and Reflection-Aware Multiple Sound Source Localization	76
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers	73
A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems	73
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking	70
Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows	70
Emergent Humanoid Robot Motion Synergies Derived From the Momentum Equilibrium Principle and the Distribution of Momentum	69
Active Exploitation of Redundancies in Reconfigurable Multirobot Systems	69
Table of Contents	69
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning	69
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors	68
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling	67
Automatic Navigation of Microswarms for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance	64
From Adaptive Locomotion to Predictive Action Selection – Cognitive Control for a Six-Legged Walker	61
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3-D Environments	61