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Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 62. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information	2999
Innovative Design of Multifunctional Supernumerary Robotic Limbs With Ellipsoid Workspace Optimization	977
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms	335
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction	257
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization	226
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control	215
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern	200
Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle Graphs With Single Access	195
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization	191
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization	178
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems	170
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes	166
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity	162
Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation	158
A 5-mm Untethered Crawling Robot via Self-Excited Electrostatic Vibration	158
Rhythm-Based Power Allocation Strategy of Bionic Tail-Flapping for Propulsion Enhancement	155
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty	148
Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators	142
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance	142
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies	137
Nonrepetitive-Path Iterative Learning and Control for Human-Guided Robotic Operations on Unknown Surfaces	134
Associating Uncertainty to Extended Poses for on Lie Group IMU Preintegration With Rotating Earth	130
Resilient Trajectory Propagation in Multirobot Networks	128
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening	123
Bio-Inspired Rapid Escape and Tight Body Flip on an At-Scale Flapping Wing Hummingbird Robot Via Reinforcement Learning	122

Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots	117
Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality- and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts	115
Stabilization of Robot-Environment Interaction Through Generalized Scattering Techniques	113
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning	113
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot	110
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning	110
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots	109
2022 Index IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol. 38	106
IEEE Transactions on Robotics	103
A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight	97
Table of Contents	97
Tight Fusion of Events and Inertial Measurements for Direct Velocity Estimation	95
Active Exploitation of Redundancies in Reconfigurable Multirobot Systems	93
Emergent Humanoid Robot Motion Synergies Derived From the Momentum Equilibrium Principle and the Distribution of Momentum	92
A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems	91
Statistically Distinct Plans for Multiobjective Task Assignment	91
From Adaptive Locomotion to Predictive Action Selection – Cognitive Control for a Six-Legged Walker	90
Versatile Tasks on Integrated Aerial Platforms Using Only Onboard Sensors: Control, Estimation, and Validation	89
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3-D Environments	89
Diffraction- and Reflection-Aware Multiple Sound Source Localization	87
Automatic Navigation of Microswarms for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance	86
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking	81
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification	81
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning	79
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes	79
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics	76
Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Subjected to Planar Tip Contact	75
Online Adaptation Framework Enables Personalization of Exoskeleton Assistance During Locomotion in Patients Affected by Stroke	74
Sensitivity-Aware Model Predictive Control for Robots With Parametric Uncertainty	74
Behavior Cloning-Based Robot Active Object Detection With Automatically Generated Data and Revision Method	72
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers	71
Design and Fabrication of Concentric Tube Robots: A Survey	67
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling	65
Shoulder-sideWINDER (Shoulder-side Wearable INDustrial Ergonomic Robot): Design and Evaluation of Shoulder Wearable Robot With Mechanisms to Compensate for Joint Misalignment	64
Dense Robotic Packing of Irregular and Novel 3D Objects	64
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration	63
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning	62
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems	62
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors	62
Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows	62
Parallel MPPI With Gradient-Velocity Modulated SDF Cost for High-Performance Real-Time Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance by Robot Manipulators	62