OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Field Robotics is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	88
Cover Image, Volume 40, Number 5, August 2023	71
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A Universal Visual Detection Method for Camellia oleifera Fruit Picking Robot	51
Toward Universal Embodied Planning in Scalable Heterogeneous Field Robots Collaboration and Control	50
Development and Application of the Coverage Path Planning Based on a Biomimetic Robotic Fish	49
Optimization‐Based Geometric Enhancement and Motion Estimation for Non‐Cooperative Spacecrafts	46
Singularity‐Free Guiding Vector Field Over Bézier's Curves Applied to Rovers Path Planning and Path Following	39
ROV Teleoperation in the Presence of Cross‐Currents Using Soft Haptics	39
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Optimization‐based motion planning for autonomous agricultural vehicles turning in constrained headlands	36
Dynamic path planning for mobile robots based on artificial potential field enhanced improved multiobjective snake optimization (APF‐IMOSO)	35
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Vision detection and path planning of mobile robots for rebar binding	33
An online hyper‐volume action bounding approach for accelerating the process of deep reinforcement learning from multiple controllers	33
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A Novel Multinozzle Targeting Pollination Robot for Clustered Kiwifruit Flowers Based on Air–Liquid Dual‐Flow Spraying	31
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Issue Information	27
Autonomous hanging tether management and experimentation for an unmanned air‐surface vehicle team	25
Decentralized deconfliction of aerial robots in high intensity traffic structures	25
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Development of a Telerobotic Target‐Specific Pesticide Applicator: An Intervention for Enhanced Safety and Efficiency	23
On‐line estimation of power model parameters for skid‐steer robots with applications in mission energy use prediction	23
Issue Information	23
Multiagent robotic systems and exploration algorithms: Applications for data collection in construction sites	23
MoWe: Motion Observation for Wind Estimation of Sailing Robots	21
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	21
Geometric Adaptive Neural Controller and Optical Flow‐Based Invariant Extended Kalman Filter for Mars Quadrotor Under Disturbance	21
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	20
Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	19
Developing a Climbing Robot for Stay Cable Maintenance With Security and Rescue Mechanisms	19
Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	19
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Highly optimized Q‐learning‐based bees approach for mobile robot path planning in static and dynamic environments	18
Two novel approaches for solving the contradiction between efficient penetration and low recoil for the low‐velocity penetrator	18
Experimental tests of hybrid VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance missions and operations in maritime conditions from ship‐based helipads	18
High maneuverability of the falcon flying robot	18
Towards practical robotic chef: Review of relevant work and future challenges	17
Development of a real‐time work‐related postural risk assessment system of farm workers using a sensor‐based artificial intelligence approach	17
Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field	17
Green Fruit‐Stem Pairing and Clustering for Machine Vision System in Robotic Thinning of Apples	17
PAW: Prediction of wildlife animals using a robot under adverse weather conditions	16
Three‐dimensional mapping and immersive human–robot interfacing utilize Kinect‐style depth cameras and virtual reality for agricultural mobile robots	16
Development and field evaluation of a VR/AR‐based remotely controlled system for a two‐wheel paddy transplanter	16
A sensor‐based assistive technology for lower‐limb‐disabled agricultural workers and abled female workers for tractor clutch and brake operation	16
AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	15
Issue Information	15
Development of a mobile robot for safe mechanical evacuation of hazardous bulk materials in industrial confined spaces	14
A Machine Learning–Based Ergonomic Assessment of Wireless Hand Control System for Lower‐Limb Disabled Tractor Operators and Abled Female Agricultural Workers	14
A more precise way to localize animals using drones	14
Efficient and multifidelity terrain modeling for 3D large‐scale and unstructured environments	14
Optimal terminal‐velocity‐control guidance for intercepting non‐cooperative maneuvering quadcopter	13
Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 1, January 2025	13
Versatile multilinked aerial robot with tilted propellers: Design, modeling, control, and state estimation for autonomous flight and manipulation	13
An Efficient 3D Point Cloud‐Based Place Recognition Approach for Underground Tunnels Using Convolution and Self‐Attention Mechanism	13
Weld line recognition and path planning with spherical tank inspection robots	13
Building information modeling‐based 3D reconstruction and coverage planning enabled automatic painting of interior walls using a novel painting robot in construction	13
Practical path planning techniques in overtaking for autonomous shuttles	12
Characterization of motion power loss of off‐road wheeled robot in a slippery terrain	12
Experimental evaluation of Visual‐Inertial Odometry systems for arable farming	12
Autonomous control of a prototype solar‐powered offshore autonomous underwater vehicle servicing platform via a low‐cost embedded architecture	11
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	11
Deep neural networks to predict autonomous ground vehicle behavior on sloping terrain field	11
Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	11
Topological map‐based approach for localization and mapping memory optimization	11
Study on climbing strategy and analysis of Mars rover	10
Field experiment of autonomous ship navigation in canal and surrounding nearshore environments	10
Sediment penetration performance of a portable underwater robot for core sampling	10
Cover Image, Volume 40, Number 6, September 2023	10
Research on unmanned electric shovel autonomous driving path tracking control based on improved pure tracking and fuzzy control	10

Whole‐body motion planning and control of a quadruped robot for challenging terrain	10
Segmentation and tracking of vegetable plants by exploiting vegetable shape feature for precision spray of agricultural robots	9
Cover Image, Volume 41, Number 3, May 2024	9
Cover Image, Volume 41, Number 4, June 2024	9
Trafficability anticipation for quadruped robot in field operation	9
Whole‐body motion planning and tracking of a mobile robot with a gimbal RGB‐D camera for outdoor 3D exploration	9
Convolutional neural networks to classify human stress that occurs during in‐field sugarcane harvesting: A case study	9
Multisensor fusion‐based maritime ship object detection method for autonomous surface vehicles	9
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	9
Leaf‐density estimation for fruit‐tree canopy based on wind‐excited audio	9
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	9
Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	8
Optimal guidance track generation for precision agriculture: A review of coverage path planning techniques	8
MPC‐based cooperative multiagent search for multiple targets using a Bayesian framework	8
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	8
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	8
In‐Pipe Maintenance Robot Using Spray‐In‐Place Pipe Technique for Long‐Distance and Complex Pipe Environment	8
A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	8
Spectral sensor‐based device for real‐time detection and severity estimation of groundnut bud necrosis virus in tomato	8
Design and movement mechanism analysis of a multiple degree of freedom bionic crocodile robot based on the characteristic of “death roll”	8
Cover Image, Volume 41, Number 8, December 2024	8
Robust Collision Avoidance and Path‐Following of USVs With Reduced Conservativeness: A Control Barrier Function‐Based Approach	8
Distributed Cooperative Collision‐Free Tracking Control for 30 Quadrotors Under Internal and External Threats	8
A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	8
A multiscale feature fusion‐guided lightweight semantic segmentation network	8
Internal Model‐Based Anti‐Disturbances Low‐Level Control for Drones Considering Actuator Dynamics	8
Three‐dimensional kinematics‐based real‐time localization method using two robots	8
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	8
An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation	7
Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	7
Enhancing Maneuverability in a Variable Wheelbase Wheeled Mobile Robot Through Dynamic Steering Curvature Control	7
Traversability analysis for autonomous driving in complex environment: A LiDAR‐based terrain modeling approach	7
MVS‐SLAM: Enhanced multiview geometry for improved semantic RGBD SLAM in dynamic environment	7
From muscular to dexterous: A systematic review to understand the robotic taxonomy in construction and effectiveness	7
A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	7
TUM autonomous motorsport: An autonomous racing software for the Indy Autonomous Challenge	7
Sensor‐driven autonomous underwater inspections: A receding‐horizon RRT‐based view planning solution for AUVs	7
An obstacle avoidance strategy for complex obstacles based on artificial potential field method	7
EIL‐SLAM: Depth‐enhanced edge‐based infrared‐LiDAR SLAM	7
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Performance evaluation of newly released cameras for fruit detection and localization in complex kiwifruit orchard environments	6
Vision‐assisted deep stall landing for a fixed‐wing UAV	6
Gait optimization of step climbing for a hexapod robot	6
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	6
Flow Memory Effect on Open‐Frame Remotely Operated Vehicle Motion	6
Turbid Underwater Image Enhancement via Attenuation Prior Formation Model	6
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Recent developments and applications of simultaneous localization and mapping in agriculture	6
Toward a Track‐Fin Hybrid Driven Bionic Amphibious Robot: Design, Development, and Experiments	6
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Multiobjective trajectory optimization of the wall‐building robot based on RBF–NSGA‐II in an uncertain viscoelastic contact environment	6
Emerging UAV technology for disaster detection, mitigation, response, and preparedness	6
Independent Soft Actor‐Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Cooperative Air Combat Maneuvering Decision‐Making	6
Experimental Evaluation of an Observer‐Based Controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Reforestation Activities	5
Demonstration of localization for construction vehicles using 3D LiDARs installed in the field	5
Sparse point cloud registration and aggregation with mesh‐based generalized iterative closest point	5
Assessing the practical applicability of neural‐based point clouds registration algorithms: A comparative analysis	5
Achievements and future directions in self‐reconfigurable modular robotic systems	5
Cleaning Robots: A Review of Sensor Technologies and Intelligent Control Strategies for Cleaning	5
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Design and analysis of a wall‐climbing robot for passive adaptive movement on variable‐curvature metal facades	5
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Combinations of novel hybrid optimization algorithms‐based trajectory planning analysis for an industrial robotic manipulators	5
In situ skid estimation for mobile robots in outdoor environments	5
Power and energy consumption of skid‐steer rovers turning on loose soil	5
Long future frame prediction using optical flow‐informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments	5
Leveraging digital twin for autonomous docking of a container truck with stabilization control	5
Development of a user‐friendly automatic ground‐based imaging platform for precise estimation of plant phenotypes in field crops	5
A portable off‐road crawling hexapod robot	5
Motion planning and contact force distribution for heavy‐duty hexapod robots walking on unknown rugged terrains	5
A multirobot system for autonomous deployment and recovery of a blade crawler for operations and maintenance of offshore wind turbine blades	5
Actuator fault detection for masonry robot manipulator arm with the interval observer	5
Visual Inertial SLAM Based on Spatiotemporal Consistency Optimization in Diverse Environments	5
High‐Throughput Robotic Phenotyping for Quantifying Tomato Disease Severity Enabled by Synthetic Data and Domain‐Adaptive Semantic Segmentation	5