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Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 60. 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
IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information	2863
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity	897
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization	315
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction	249
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control	202
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes	201
Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality- and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts	192
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance	180
Stabilization of Robot-Environment Interaction Through Generalized Scattering Techniques	172
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning	166
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems	158
Rhythm-Based Power Allocation Strategy of Bionic Tail-Flapping for Propulsion Enhancement	157
Resilient Trajectory Propagation in Multirobot Networks	156
Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation	155
A 5-mm Untethered Crawling Robot via Self-Excited Electrostatic Vibration	144
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms	140
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning	131
Innovative Design of Multifunctional Supernumerary Robotic Limbs With Ellipsoid Workspace Optimization	130
Bio-Inspired Rapid Escape and Tight Body Flip on an At-Scale Flapping Wing Hummingbird Robot Via Reinforcement Learning	129
Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators	127
Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots	125
Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle Graphs With Single Access	122
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization	113
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots	110
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot	110

Associating Uncertainty to Extended Poses for on Lie Group IMU Preintegration With Rotating Earth	109
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies	108
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization	106
Nonrepetitive-Path Iterative Learning and Control for Human-Guided Robotic Operations on Unknown Surfaces	106
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening	106
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern	103
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty	100
2022 Index IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol. 38	99
IEEE Transactions on Robotics	98
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics	93
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration	93
Versatile Tasks on Integrated Aerial Platforms Using Only Onboard Sensors: Control, Estimation, and Validation	91
Tight Fusion of Events and Inertial Measurements for Direct Velocity Estimation	91
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems	86
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling	85
Autonomous Cave Surveying With an Aerial Robot	84
Gaussian-Process-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots With Guaranteed Performance	84
A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight	84
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes	82
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification	81
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking	80
Parallel MPPI with Gradient-Velocity Modulated SDF Cost for High-Performance Real-Time Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance by Robot Manipulators	80
A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems	78
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning	76
Active Exploitation of Redundancies in Reconfigurable Multirobot Systems	74
Emergent Humanoid Robot Motion Synergies Derived From the Momentum Equilibrium Principle and the Distribution of Momentum	71
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers	71
Table of Contents	71
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors	69
Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows	68
Behavior Cloning-Based Robot Active Object Detection With Automatically Generated Data and Revision Method	67
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3-D Environments	64
Statistically Distinct Plans for Multiobjective Task Assignment	62
Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Subjected to Planar Tip Contact	60
From Adaptive Locomotion to Predictive Action Selection – Cognitive Control for a Six-Legged Walker	60
Distributed Prediction of Unsafe Reconfiguration Scenarios of Modular Robotic Programmable Matter	60