Journal of Field Robotics

Article	Citations
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A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	106
Bidirectional Multimodal Fusion for Point Cloud Segmentation of Navigable Areas in Complex Field Emergency Environments	85
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A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	58
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	54
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	53
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	52
Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	51
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	51
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	46
Rapid Detection of Ripe Tomatoes in Unstructured Environments	46
Practical path planning techniques in overtaking for autonomous shuttles	45
AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	44
Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	43
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A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	42
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	41
Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field	40
Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	39
Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	38
Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	38
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	37
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	37
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	35

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Assessing the practical applicability of neural‐based point clouds registration algorithms: A comparative analysis	32
Development of a Machine Vision‐Based Walk‐Behind Cotton Fertilizer Applicator	32
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A Two‐Stage Recognition and Planning Approach for Grasping Manipulators and Design of End‐Effectors	31
A Robust Transformer–Based Error Compensation Method for Gyroscope of IMUs	30
Four years of multimodal odometry and mapping on the rail vehicles	29
Expediting recovery of autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic mission environments: A system‐of‐systems challenge for underwater warfare	29
Long future frame prediction using optical flow‐informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments	29
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In situ skid estimation for mobile robots in outdoor environments	28
Visual Inertial SLAM Based on Spatiotemporal Consistency Optimization in Diverse Environments	28
SiaRDFNet: Leveraging Siamese Architecture With ResNet‐DenseNet Fusion for Accurate Root Disease Classification	28
Toward a Track‐Fin Hybrid Driven Bionic Amphibious Robot: Design, Development, and Experiments	28
A benchmark analysis of data‐driven and geometric approaches for robot ego‐motion estimation	27
Performance evaluation of newly released cameras for fruit detection and localization in complex kiwifruit orchard environments	27
Research on Steering Path Tracking Performance of Articulated Quad‐Tracked Vehicle Based on Fuzzy PID Control	27
Power and energy consumption of skid‐steer rovers turning on loose soil	27
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Achievements and future directions in self‐reconfigurable modular robotic systems	26
Turbid Underwater Image Enhancement via Attenuation Prior Formation Model	26
Vision‐assisted deep stall landing for a fixed‐wing UAV	25
A Framework to Enable Eco‐Cyber‐Physical Systems for Robotics‐Focused Digital Twins in Smart Farming	24
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Dynamic Docking Anti‐Disturbance Control of Overactuated AUV: System, Method, and Lake Trails	24
LiDAR‐based automated UAV inspection of wind turbine rotor blades	24
A drone‐based photometric measurement platform	24
Under‐Ice Odometry Fusing Acoustic and Visual Information for Underwater Vehicles	23
Longitudinal deep truck: Deep longitudinal model with application to sim2real deep reinforcement learning for heavy‐duty truck control in the field	22
TetraFLEX: Design and kinematic analysis of a novel self‐aligning family of 3T1R parallel manipulators	22
Digital Twin/MARS‐CycleGAN: Enhancing Sim‐to‐Real Crop/Row Detection for MARS Phenotyping Robot Using Synthetic Images	21
Optimization and evaluation of machine–field parameters of remotely controlled two‐wheel paddy transplanter	21
Terrain‐aware path planning via semantic segmentation and uncertainty rejection filter with adversarial noise for mobile robots	21
Interaction mechanics model for screw‐drive wheel of granary robot traveling on the loose grain terrain	20
A Novel eXtreme Gradient Boosting‐Shapley Additive Explanation Calibration Method for Six‐Axis Force/Torque Sensors	19
Visual‐Inertial SLAM for Unstructured Outdoor Environments: Benchmarking the Benefits and Computational Costs of Loop Closing	19
Puttybot: A sensorized robot for autonomous putty plastering	19
Design and field test of a foldable wing unmanned aerial–underwater vehicle	19
A high‐resolution AUV navigation framework with integrated communication and tracking for under‐ice deployments	18
A comprehensive review on deploying robotics application in telecom network tower's field maintenance: Challenges with current practices and feasibility analysis for robotics implementation	18
A strawberry harvest‐aiding system with crop‐transport collaborative robots: Design, development, and field evaluation	18
MARCEL: Mobile active rover chassis for enhanced locomotion	17
Paddy field object detection for robotic combine based on real‐time semantic segmentation algorithm	17
Mobile robotics platform for strawberry sensing and harvesting within precision indoor farming systems	17
Optimizing PID control for enhanced stability of a 16‐DOF biped robot during ditch crossing	17
A Boustrophedon‐Optimized Neural Network for Autonomous Path Planning in Large‐Scale Photovoltaic Farms	16
Fast and incremental loop closure detection with deep features and proximity graphs	16
FCN‐YOLOS: An Effective Deep‐Learning Model for Real‐Time Object Detection	16
Hybrid Velocity Obstacle‐Nonlinear Control Method for Real‐Time Collision Avoidance of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots	16

Time–jerk optimal trajectory planning for industrial robots with coupled interpolation function selection	16
FTR‐Bench: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flipper‐Track Robot Control	16
An autonomous ground robot to support firefighters' interventions in indoor emergencies	16
A cable‐driven underwater robotic system for delicate manipulation of marine biology samples	16
Issue Information	15
Learning‐Based Rapid Phase‐Aberration Correction and Control for Robot‐Assisted MRI‐Guided Low‐/High‐Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatments	15
Correction to “Aerial online mapping on‐board system by real‐time object detection for UGV path generation in unstructured outdoor environments”	15
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Influence of screw blades on the performance of a screw‐drive granary robot	15
A CIELAB fusion‐based generative adversarial network for reliable sand–dust removal in open‐pit mines	15
Design and performance analysis of soft pneumatic manipulator‐based linear cutter and stem holder for sweet pepper harvesting	15
Towards Damage‐Less Robotic Fragile Fruit Grasping: A Systematic Review on System Design, End Effector, and Visual and Tactile Feedback	15
Inverse Kinematics Solution and Application of a 5‐DoF Robotic Arm Based on an Improved Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm	14
Lessons from robot‐assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force	14
SAPT: A Hierarchical Sliced Anchor Point Transformer for LiDAR Point Cloud in Robot Perception	14
Underwater multizonotope terrain‐aided navigation method with coarse map based on set‐membership filter	13
Tracking Mooring Lines of Floating Structures by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	13
Formation Control and Experiment for Propeller‐Driven Car‐Like Robots With Amplitude and Rate Saturation Under Steering Fault‐Tolerant Control	13
Safety Inspections and Gas Monitoring in Hazardous Mining Areas Shortly After Blasting Using Autonomous UAVs	13
Lower Limb Exoskeletons, Application‐Centric Classifications: A Review	13
A Spiral Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Nonomnidirectional Robots	13
Performance‐Oriented Understanding and Design of a Robotic Tadpole: Lower Energy Cost, Higher Speed	13
Target Localization and Pursuit With Networked Robotic Vehicles: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments	13
Characteristics of optical flow from aerial thermal imaging, “thermal flow”	13
INF‐SLiM: Large‐Scale Implicit Neural Fields for Semantic LiDAR Mapping of Embodied AI Agents	13
Attention mechanism‐based multisensor data fusion neural network for fault diagnosis of autonomous underwater vehicles	13
Earthwork digital twin for teleoperation of an automated bulldozer in edge dumping	12
An online optimization escape entrapment strategy for planetary rovers based on Bayesian optimization	12
A motion control framework for autonomous water sampling and swing‐free transportation of a multirotor UAV with a cable‐suspended mechanism	12
Design and analysis of a wall‐climbing robot for water wall inspection of thermal power plants	12
Design and manufacturing a novel screw‐in‐pipe inspection robot with steering capability	12
A Map Segmentation Method Based on Image Processing for Robot Complete Coverage Operation	12
RumexWeeds: A grassland dataset for agricultural robotics	12
Generalizing minimum safe operating altitudes for fixed‐wing UAVs in real‐time	12
Hybridization of ResNet with YOLO classifier for automated paddy leaf disease recognition: An optimized model	12
Morphlight Theory Inspired by Raptor: Arm‐Wing Cooperative Control Method and its Application	11
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Autonomous Positioning for Mobile Vehicles Based on Visual‐Inertial Fusion in Challenging Dark Roadway Scenes	11
Robot self‐calibration using actuated 3D sensors	11
Development of an Air Pulse Jet Robot for Efficient Dust Removal in Air‐Cooled Condensers Under Harsh Industrial Conditions	11
Robust control scheme based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator for a quadrotor with motor failures	11
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Efficient Inverse Kinematics Solution for Industrial Robotic Arms: NR Iterative Based on IDBO‐BPNN Prediction	11
Change Detection of Non‐Fixed Targets in Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Inspections Based on Style Transfer	11
Robust High‐Order Sliding Mode Control for Collecting Objects by a Wheeled Space Rover With a Multi‐Articulated Arm	11
Adaptive‐Based Non‐Singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of a Three DOF Spatial Robotic Manipulator	11
Underwater UXO detection using magnetometry on hovering AUVs	11
Pose‐graph underwater simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous monitoring and 3D reconstruction by means of optical and acoustic sensors	11
A Novel Review on Quadruped Robots Design Variants, Gait Modulation, and Motion Planning Schemes	11
An Enhanced Navigation System With Predictive Motion Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in GNSS‐Attenuated Dynamic Urban Waterways	11
Optimization‐Based Geometric Enhancement and Motion Estimation for Non‐Cooperative Spacecrafts	10
Optimal guidance track generation for precision agriculture: A review of coverage path planning techniques	10
Design and Development of an Intelligent Collision Avoidance Platform for a Teleoperated Dual Robotic Arm	10
Geometry‐based flipper motion planning for articulated tracked robots traversing rough terrain in real‐time	10
Towards autonomous selective harvesting: A review of robot perception, robot design, motion planning and control	10
A Machine Learning–Based Ergonomic Assessment of Wireless Hand Control System for Lower‐Limb Disabled Tractor Operators and Abled Female Agricultural Workers	10
A Novel Multinozzle Targeting Pollination Robot for Clustered Kiwifruit Flowers Based on Air–Liquid Dual‐Flow Spraying	10
Design and Analysis of New Obstacle Avoidance Scheme With Dimensionality Reduction for Motion Planning of Redundant Robot Manipulators	10
Degeneracy‐Resistant LiDAR‐SLAM Algorithm Based on Geometric and Visual Features' Fusion	10
A review of soft manipulator research, applications, and opportunities	10
Issue Information	10
Efficient and multifidelity terrain modeling for 3D large‐scale and unstructured environments	10
Optimizing Resource Allocation in Multi‐Robot Systems Through Game‐Theoretic Strategies: A Two‐Stage Model Approach	10
Internal Model‐Based Anti‐Disturbances Low‐Level Control for Drones Considering Actuator Dynamics	10
UV‐C Disinfection Robots: A Systematic Review	10
Complete coverage path planning for wheeled agricultural robots	10
Two novel approaches for solving the contradiction between efficient penetration and low recoil for the low‐velocity penetrator	10
Building information modeling‐based 3D reconstruction and coverage planning enabled automatic painting of interior walls using a novel painting robot in construction	9
An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation	9
SensHB.Q: A Cost‐Effective Force‐Sensitive Handlebar to Control Omnidirectional Robots and Wheelchairs	9
A portable off‐road crawling hexapod robot	9
Toward Universal Embodied Planning in Scalable Heterogeneous Field Robots Collaboration and Control	9
Auxetic and Holonomic Mobile Robot for Enhanced Navigation in Constrained Terrains	9
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High‐Throughput Robotic Phenotyping for Quantifying Tomato Disease Severity Enabled by Synthetic Data and Domain‐Adaptive Semantic Segmentation	9
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Formation Control and Experiment for Propeller‐Driven Car‐Like Robots With Amplitude and Rate Saturation Under Jointly Connected Topology	9
Design and Analysis of Double‐Ring Robotic Coconut Tree Climber for Enhanced Performance	9
Fusion‐Odometry‐Based Global Navigation in Closed Orchards	9
ADRC‐SMC‐based disturbance rejection depth‐tracking control of underactuated AUV	9

Experimental Evaluation of an Observer‐Based Controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Reforestation Activities	9
Study of a Cable‐Driven Hip Swimming‐Assisted Exoskeleton Utilizing Adaptive Active Control Strategy	8
Uncertainty‐aware LiDAR‐based localization for outdoor mobile robots	8
Continuous Curvature Path Planning for Headland Coverage With Agricultural Robots	8
Learning‐based model predictive control for improved mobile robot path following using Gaussian processes and feedback linearization	8
A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection	8
UAV‐based simultaneous localization and mapping in outdoor environments: A systematic scoping review	8
Development of an automated mobile robotic sprayer to prevent workers' exposure of agro‐chemicals inside polyhouse	8
Utilizing Photovoltaic Solar Panels for Real‐Time Localization and Speed Detection of Approaching Illuminated Objects in Humanoid Robots	8
RoboBoat: A robotic boat for 3D mapping of partially flooded underground sites	8
Rapid location technology of odor sources by multi‐UAV	8
Independent Soft Actor‐Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Cooperative Air Combat Maneuvering Decision‐Making	8
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Challenges and Advances in Underwater Sonar Systems and AI‐Driven Signal Processing for Modern Naval Operations: A Systematic Review	8
Dynamic State Feedback Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Based on Switching Between Multiple Heading Movement Models	8
Predictive Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Under‐Actuated Unmanned Surface Vehicle Under Disturbances via Reinforcement Learning	8
Research on disturbance rejection motion control method of USV for UUV recovery	7
Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	7
VTOL Air Vehicle With Fixed‐Inclined Rotors and a Rudder Vane	7
A simulation‐assisted point cloud segmentation neural network for human–robot interaction applications	7
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Cover Image, Volume 39, Number 7, October 2022	7
Real‐time vibration monitoring and analysis of agricultural tractor drivers using an IoT‐based system	7
Swarm Intelligence in Action: Particle Swarm Optimization and Rendezvous Algorithms for Swarm Robotics	7
Position‐based fluid simulation for robotic injection sealing of pavement cracks	7
Corrigendum for “Fast and incremental loop closure detection with deep features and proximity graphs”	7
Exploring the feasibility of autonomous forestry operations: Results from the first experimental unmanned machine	7
Cover Image, Volume 40, Number 8, December 2023	7
Effectiveness of an Expendable Unmanned Ground Vehicle Stalling a Mechanized Infantry Company's Primary Combat Units—A Virtual Simulation Experiment	7
SimLiquid: A Simulation‐Based Liquid Perception Pipeline for Robot Liquid Manipulation	7
Optimization and evaluation of swing leg retraction for a hydraulic biped robot	7
ASAH: An arc‐surface‐adsorption hexapod robot with a motion control scheme	7
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COAL: Robust Contrastive Learning‐Based Visual Navigation Framework	6
Fast Swimming Robot Fish Under Countercurrent, Complex Trajectory, and Heavy Load Environments	6
PLPF‐VSLAM: An indoor visual SLAM with adaptive fusion of point‐line‐plane features	6
Position‐based force tracking adaptive impedance control strategy for robot grinding complex surfaces system	6
LMFFNet: Lightweight Multiscale Feature Fusion Network for Underwater Structural Defect Detection	6
A Fully Automated Robotic System for Tuning Optimization of RF Cavity Filter	6
Back Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	6
Comparison of DSO and ORB‐SLAM3 in Low‐Light Environments With Auxiliary Lighting and Deep Learning Based Image Enhancing	6
Deep learning with RGB and thermal images onboard a drone for monitoring operations	6
ASV station keeping under wind disturbances using neural network simulation error minimization model predictive control	6
Tractor Mounted Grapevine Pruning System	6
FastFusion: Deep stereo‐LiDAR fusion for real‐time high‐precision dense depth sensing	6
Development and Field Evaluation of a Radial Large‐Stroke Adaptive End‐Effector for Continuous Robotic Harvesting of Banana Fruits at Different Stalk Diameters	6
A Path Planning Algorithm for UAV 3D Surface Inspection Based on Normal Vector Filtering and Integrated Viewpoint Evaluation	6
A Robust Pose Estimation Method for Robot Grasping in Bin‐Picking Scenarios Using Point Cloud	6
Recurrent Neural Network–Based Nonlinear Orientation Control of Redundant Stewart Platform	6
A new method for calculating time‐varying torsional stiffness of RV reducers with variable loads and tooth modifications	6
Development of Large Wingspan Flapping‐Wing Flying Robots With Improved Efficiency by Rigid‐Flexible Coupling Flapping Mechanism	6
Bolster Spring Visual Servo Positioning Method Based on Depth Online Detection	6
A differentiable dynamic modeling approach to integrated motion planning and actuator physical design for mobile manipulators	5
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Development of disaster‐responding special‐purpose machinery: Results of experiments	5
Adaptive Prescribed‐Time Control for Marine Surface Vehicles: A Time‐Varying Gain Approach	5
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Modular autonomous strawberry picking robotic system	5
TKO‐SLAM: Visual SLAM algorithm based on time‐delay feature regression and keyframe pose optimization	5
3D hybrid path planning for optimized coverage of agricultural fields: A novel approach for wheeled robots	5
Particle filter‐based aerial tracking for moving targets	5
Lifting‐principle‐based design and implementation of fixed‐wing unmanned aerial–underwater vehicle	5
From “Mirror Flower, Water Moon” to Multi‐Task Visual Prospective Representation Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Indoor Mapless Navigation	5
Design and Implementation of an Underwater Structural Inspection Robot for High‐Flow Environments	5
Dynamics identification‐driven diving control for unmanned underwater vehicles	5
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Multi‐Joint Manipulator Based on Multi‐Information Fusion and Deep‐Learning Machine Vision	5
Cascaded Extended‐State‐Observer‐Based Synergetic Control for Quadcopter Translational Dynamics	5
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Digital twin‐assisted fault diagnosis system for robot joints with insufficient data	5
Design, Analysis, and Flexibility Evaluation of a Double‐Mode Underactuated Coupled‐Drive Omnidirectional Mobile Robot	5
Cooperative 3D tunnel measurement based on 2D–3D registration of omnidirectional laser light	5
An Aerial Transport System in Marine GNSS‐Denied Environment	5
The Design of Endovascular Robots for Cardiac Interventions: A Survey	5
Automated mission planning for aerial large‐scale power plant thermal inspection	5
Application of automated and robotically deployed in situ X‐ray fluorescence analysis for nuclear waste management	5
Geometry‐Aware 3D Point Cloud Learning for Precise Cutting‐Point Detection in Unstructured Field Environments	5
Mechanical Design and Redundant Motion Planning of a Hydraulic Quadruped Mobile Manipulator for Enlarging Operational Workspace	5
Into the ice: Exploration and data capturing in glacial moulins by a tethered robot	5
An efficient online citrus counting system for large‐scale unstructured orchards based on the unmanned aerial vehicle	5
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Pneumatically Assisted Automatic Spinning Yarn Piecing Robot With Tension Control Method	5
An omnidirectional screw‐driven forestry robot	5
Design and Analysis of a Lightweight Redundant‐Degree‐of‐Freedom Fruit‐Picking Robot Arm	5
A Reliable Omnidirectional Acoustic Guidance Method for AUV Recovery and Homing	5
Cover Image, Volume 41, Number 8, December 2024	4
Learning Accurate and Robust Velocity Tracking for Quadrupedal Robots	4
An Efficient 3D Point Cloud‐Based Place Recognition Approach for Underground Tunnels Using Convolution and Self‐Attention Mechanism	4
From muscular to dexterous: A systematic review to understand the robotic taxonomy in construction and effectiveness	4
Movement Environment Assessment and Force Prediction for Quadruped Robots	4
Topological map‐based approach for localization and mapping memory optimization	4
A multiscale feature fusion‐guided lightweight semantic segmentation network	4
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Autonomous hanging tether management and experimentation for an unmanned air‐surface vehicle team	4