OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 50. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM	1404
TEASER: Fast and Certifiable Point Cloud Registration	306
FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry	296
Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators	165
A Review of Tactile Information: Perception and Action Through Touch	125
GVINS: Tightly Coupled GNSS–Visual–Inertial Fusion for Smooth and Consistent State Estimation	122
TossingBot: Learning to Throw Arbitrary Objects With Residual Physics	118
RAPTOR: Robust and Perception-Aware Trajectory Replanning for Quadrotor Fast Flight	115
Motion Planning Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Learning-Based and Classical Motion Planners	105
Data-Driven Control of Soft Robots Using Koopman Operator Theory	94
Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Learning Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks	93
Design and Validation of a Powered Knee–Ankle Prosthesis With High-Torque, Low-Impedance Actuators	92
Soft Robotic Suits: State of the Art, Core Technologies, and Open Challenges	89
Event-Based Stereo Visual Odometry	88
Representation-Free Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Motions in Quadrupeds	83
Independent Control Strategy of Multiple Magnetic Flexible Millirobots for Position Control and Path Following	81
Convergent Multiagent Formation Control With Collision Avoidance	80
PoseRBPF: A Rao–Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6-D Object Pose Tracking	79
Scan Context++: Structural Place Recognition Robust to Rotation and Lateral Variations in Urban Environments	78
Dynamics of Continuum and Soft Robots: A Strain Parameterization Based Approach	78
Geometrically Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Multicopters	76
Teach-Repeat-Replan: A Complete and Robust System for Aggressive Flight in Complex Environments	76
Active Interaction Force Control for Contact-Based Inspection With a Fully Actuated Aerial Vehicle	75
A Multimodal, Enveloping Soft Gripper: Shape Conformation, Bioinspired Adhesion, and Expansion-Driven Suction	74
Object Handovers: A Review for Robotics	74

Human-in-the-Loop Control of Soft Exosuits Using Impedance Learning on Different Terrains	73
LCDNet: Deep Loop Closure Detection and Point Cloud Registration for LiDAR SLAM	73
Long-Range Indoor Navigation With PRM-RL	69
Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping, and Whole-Body Control	67
Direct Sparse Mapping	67
Kinematic Calibration of Serial and Parallel Robots Based on Finite and Instantaneous Screw Theory	66
Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview	64
Simultaneous Calibration of Multicoordinates for a Dual-Robot System by Solving the AXB = YCZ Problem	63
An Iterative Approach for Accurate Dynamic Model Identification of Industrial Robots	61
Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems	60
Enhancing the Universality of a Pneumatic Gripper via Continuously Adjustable Initial Grasp Postures	59
Definition and Application of Variable Resistance Coefficient for Wheeled Mobile Robots on Deformable Terrain	58
Efficient and Trustworthy Social Navigation via Explicit and Implicit Robot–Human Communication	58
Energy Generating Electronic Skin With Intrinsic Tactile Sensing Without Touch Sensors	56
A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight	56
An At-Scale Tailless Flapping-Wing Hummingbird Robot. I. Design, Optimization, and Experimental Validation	54
MADER: Trajectory Planner in Multiagent and Dynamic Environments	54
DefSLAM: Tracking and Mapping of Deforming Scenes From Monocular Sequences	53
Slip Detection for Grasp Stabilization With a Multifingered Tactile Robot Hand	53
Game-Theoretic Planning for Self-Driving Cars in Multivehicle Competitive Scenarios	52
Robust Odometry and Mapping for Multi-LiDAR Systems With Online Extrinsic Calibration	51
A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems	51
Inchworm Inspired Multimodal Soft Robots With Crawling, Climbing, and Transitioning Locomotion	51
Collision Resilient Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots With High Agility	51
MPC for Humanoid Gait Generation: Stability and Feasibility	51
Proximity Perception in Human-Centered Robotics: A Survey on Sensing Systems and Applications	50