Intelligent Service Robotics

Article	Citations
Scan corner of context: a novel corner feature rotation-invariant descriptor for loop closure detection from 3D LiDAR data	748
Editorial: Task planning and motion control problems of service robots in human-centered environments	113
Autonomous gait switching method and experiments of a hexapod walking robot for Mars environment with multiple terrains	93
Trajectory tracking of mobile robots using hedge-agebras-based controllers	31
Evaluating user performance and perceptions in a block-based visual programming language for socially assistive robots	29
Empowering robots with social cues: an initiative pose control framework for human–robot interaction	26
Research on AGV path planning in flexible job-shop scheduling problem based on multi-agent deep Q network	25
Research on multi-AGV path planning based on map training and action replanning	25
Fast marching firework method for multi-goal mobile robot path planning in complex obstacle maps	23
A cross-task visuo-tactile representation using point clouds	22
A Methodology for end user programming of ROS-based service robots using jigsaw metaphor and ontologies	22
A sampling-based planner for underground pipeline inspection with unknown narrow passage	22
Model-aided 3D shape and force estimation of continuum robots based on Cosserat rod theory and using a magnetic localization system	19
Finite-time sliding mode Control strategies for perturbed input-constrained nonlinear bilateral teleoperation systems with variable-time communication delays	19
R3T*-MOSafeRL($$\lambda $$): path planning of mobile robots in unknown dynamic environments	18
Gait detection of lower limb exoskeleton robot integrating visual perception and geometric features	18
Adaptive RBF neural network-computed torque control for a pediatric gait exoskeleton system: an experimental study	17
A collision-free path planning method for industrial robot manipulators considering safe human–robot interaction	17
A finger-inspired pneumatic network actuator based on rigid-flexible coupling structure for soft robotic grippers	17
Improved seeker optimization algorithm-based reliable multi-robot path planning for intelligent storage system	16
Grasping control using 2D and 3D visual integration for robotic prosthetic hand	15
An efficient network for 3D point cloud moving object detection in autonomous driving environments	15
Development of source seeking algorithm for mobile robots	15
A survey on maritime perception datasets and technologies for autonomous surface vessels	14
Event-based reconfiguration control for time-varying formation of robot swarms in narrow spaces	14

Personalized passive training control strategy for a lower limb rehabilitation robot with specified step lengths	14
HDFOS: path planning for heterogeneous truck-drone cooperative delivery and pickup services	14
FruitTrackDB: a multi-sensor dataset for intelligent navigation in real orchard environments	13
Real-time path planning for autonomous vehicle based on teaching–learning-based optimization	13
Effects of repetitive ROM exercise training using a patient robot with musculoskeletal symptoms	13
HAC-based adaptive combined pick-up path optimization strategy for intelligent warehouse	12
Novel 3D chaotic quadrotor trajectories for infrastructure monitoring	12
Acoustic analysis of ultrasonic air-borne transducer with concave structure	12
Soft component technology and application for soft robotics	12
Hierarchical Topology Map with Explicit Corridor for global path planning of mobile robots	12
LSTM-based regression for continuous control of an EMG prosthetic hand: performance evaluation and experimental studies	12
Night-to-day thermal image translation for deep thermal place recognition	12
Feature refinement with DBO: optimizing RFRC method for autonomous vehicle detection	11
6-DoF grasp pose estimation based on instance reconstruction	11
Manufacture and development of Taban: a cute back-projected head social robot for educational purposes	11
Path planning in dynamic structured environments using transformer-enabled twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient for mobile robots in simulation	10
Multirobot conflict coordination and dynamic obstacle avoidance cooperative path planning	10
A modified double DQN for UAV path planning: dynamic reward shaping and heuristic-guided tie-breaking	10
Slope-constrained global path planning for quadruped robots	9
The robot and the nurse prepare for surgery: early insights into the impact of robot’s inner speech	9
Pas: a scale-invariant approach to maritime search and rescue object detection using preprocessing and attention scaling	9
Locomotion mode detection method based on electromyography and divergent component of motion from single leg	9
Tactile object recognition in early phases of grasping using underactuated robotic hands	8
Dynamic liquid volume estimation using optical tactile sensors and spiking neural network	8
Neuro-LQR control for swarm and synchronization of coaxial octocopters in unknown environment	8
Optimal two-wheeled self-balancing mobile robot strategy of navigation using adaptive fuzzy controller-based KD-SegNet	8
Intelligent robotic arm trajectory planning using improved classical Q-learning and LSTM	8
Grasping Stability of a Robotic Gripper with Frictional Self-Locking Mechanism	8
Temporal modeling for domain-invariant fault diagnosis in robotics digital twin systems	8
Autonomous vehicle lane-change maneuver accounting for emotion-induced driving behavior in other vehicles	8
Posture stabilizing control of quadruped robot based on cart-inverted pendulum model	8
MORE: simultaneous multi-view 3D object recognition and pose estimation	7
Design and dynamic modeling of a balance rehabilitation cable (BaReCa) robot: integration with patients	7
Improving reinforcement learning based moving object grasping with trajectory prediction	7
The development of an optimal hedge algebras path following controller for Robotnik	7
Cooperative push-grasping in clutter via deep reinforcement learning	7
Collaborative semantic mapping for updating the digital twin in controlled indoor environment	6
NMPC formation control for heterogeneous multi-air vehicles with obstacle avoidance and connectivity maintenance	6
Real-time monocular visual–inertial SLAM with structural constraints of line and point–line fusion	6
Magnetorheological damper for vibration reduction in a robot arm	6
Handmaid: design and evaluation of a hand exoskeleton with active backdrive for neuromuscular rehabilitation	6
Offline spatial–temporal actor-critic learning for robot crowd navigation without behavior regularization	6
Woa-fism planning hexapod robot various gaits	6
Real-time autonomous navigation in palm tree environments using vision-based landmark detection and an integrated path planning and control framework	6
Robots in healthcare as envisioned by care professionals	6
Direct RGB-D visual odometry with point features	6
Modified type-2 fuzzy controller for intercollision avoidance of single and multi-humanoid robots in complex terrains	5
A novel multiple targets detection method for service robots in the indoor complex scenes	5
Kinematics and stiffness analysis of a wheelchair-based cable-actuated ankle rehabilitation robot with flexure-based variable-stiffness devices	5
Frontend and backend electronics achieving flexibility and scalability for tomographic tactile sensing	5

Heterogeneous multi-robot system mission planning with cooperative replenishment through data-driven rendezvous point selection	5
Kinematic modeling of PAM-based 3-UPS parallel robot module using string encoders	5
Indoor scene neural implicit 3D reconstruction with SO (3)-equivariant network	5
Low-cost environment-adaptive SLAM for bed-chair robots in complex indoor scenarios	5
MSM: point cloud alignment algorithm through multi-scale feature fusion and cross-attention mechanism	5
Gait environments recognition using Gaussian process regression model-based CoP trajectory for wearable robot applications	5
Analysis of impressions of robot by changing its motion and trajectory parameters for designing parameterized behaviors of home-service robots	5
Time delay compensated disturbance observer-based sliding mode slave controller and neural network model for bilateral teleoperation system	5
A soft gripper driven by conical dielectric elastomer actuator to achieve displacement amplification and compliant grips	4
Occlusion-resilient pose estimation of textureless components in cluttered environment and its implementation in robotic bin-picking	4
Drone-robot to install aerial marker balls for power lines	4
Robot motion planning using predictive trajectory of moving obstacles	4
Design and development of a haptic-enabled telerobotic system for improved ultrasonography	4
A survey on integration of large language models with intelligent robots	4
Imaging radar and LiDAR image translation for 3-DOF extrinsic calibration	4
Four-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robots strategy of navigation using hybrid HPSO-GA-PID controller-based YOLO3D-CSSA network	4
Variable admittance control for door opening with a wheeled mobile manipulator considering ground obstacles	4
Real-time prediction of walking state and percent of gait cycle for robotic prosthetic leg using artificial neural network	4
Personal assistant robot using reinforcement learning: DARWIN-OP2 as a case study	4
A* algorithm based on adaptive expansion convolution for unmanned aerial vehicle path planning	4
A dynamic threat model-based conflict resolution method for multiple mobile robots in constrained spaces	4
Deep reinforcement learning-based autonomous navigation for quadcopter using PPO and improved grey wolf optimizer	4
Development of a whole-body walking rehabilitation robot and power assistive method using EMG signals	4
Execution and perception of upper limb exoskeleton for stroke patients: a systematic review	4
A heuristic for task allocation and path planning of multiple tethered underwater robots considering workload balance	4
Trajectory planning and inverse kinematics solution of Kuka robot using COA along with pick and place application	4
Real-time trajectory planning for collaborative robots using incremental multi-objective optimization	3
On terrain traversability analysis in unstructured environments: recent advances in forest applications	3
Humanising robot-assisted navigation	3
AUV pose correction via underwater object recognition using synthetic data	3
Remote object navigation for service robots using hierarchical knowledge graph in human-centered environments	3
LiDAR odometry survey: recent advancements and remaining challenges	3
Combined task and motion planning system for the service robot using hierarchical action decomposition	3
Simple and effective strategies to pick up foods for a meal assistant robot integrated with an integrated spoon and chopstick mechanism	3
Distance estimation with semantic segmentation and edge detection of surround view images	3
A multi-UGV coverage path planning method with reduced the number of turns for structured obstacle-enclosed area	3
Real-time recognition of human interactions from a single RGB-D camera for socially-aware robot navigation	3
Experimental investigation of a new type of driving concept for capsule robot	3
Exploring the impact of the uncanny valley effect on teenagers’ attitudes toward virtual characters and EFL reading comprehension skills	3
Enhanced resampling scheme for Monte Carlo localization	3
SLAM navigation algorithm for lightweight UAV based on vision-reference coupling	3
Sca-pose: category-level 6D pose estimation with adaptive shape prior based on CNN and graph convolution	3
Efficient multi-objective path planning for complex disaster environments: hierarchical target filtering and ranking optimization strategies	3
Monte Carlo localization based on off-line feature matching and improved particle swarm optimization for mobile robots	3
Lmapping: tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping for degraded environments	3
Multi-robot path planning using a hybrid dynamic window approach and modified chaotic neural oscillator-based hyperbolic gravitational search algorithm in a complex terrain	3
On automatic camera shooting systems via PTZ control and DNN-based visual sensing	3
Research on robot path planning by integrating state-based decision-making A* algorithm and inertial dynamic window approach	3
A novel cascade calibration method for robotic grinding system	3
Real-time semantic octree mapping under aerial-ground cooperative system	3
Optimizing human–robot emotional interactions with Markov decision process	3
Design and evaluation of hybrid upper limb exoskeleton considering human–robot interaction force	3
Evaluation of a neuroadaptive admittance controller for ambulation through physical human–robot interaction	2
Reinforced bidirectional artificial muscles: enhancing force and stability for soft robotics	2
Visual SLAM and dense map reconstruction in highly dynamic environments	2
A ROS-based distributed multi-robot localization and orientation strategy for heterogeneous robots	2
Development of an integrated estimation and predictive control framework for safe navigation in mobile robots for industrial environments	2
Design and architecture of a slender and flexible underwater robot	2
A novel adaptive keyframe selection method with multi-source joint constraints for visual SLAM	2
MAP3F: a decentralized approach to multi-agent pathfinding and collision avoidance with scalable 1D, 2D, and 3D feature fusion	2
A self-adaptive safe A* algorithm for AGV in large-scale storage environment	2
Multirobot cooperative localization based on event-triggered mechanism	2
Human-embodied drone interface for aerial manipulation: advantages and challenges	2
Time-energy optimization based on integrated model for multi-robot welding task planning	2
A survey on generative nonverbal facial behavior for highly realistic embodied agents	2
Research on a RBF-based compliance control method of lower limb exoskeleton robots	2
Actuator-level motion and contact episode learning and classification using adaptive resonance theory	2
A reinforcement learning approach for multi-goal motion planning of autonomous ground vehicles in cluttered environments	2
Human–robot interaction through joint robot planning with large language models	2
Dual-layer multi-robot path planning in narrow-lane environments under specific traffic policies	2
Memory-based soft actor–critic with prioritized experience replay for autonomous navigation	2
Sac-eprb: Soft Actor-Critic with Enhanced Prioritized Replay Buffer for UAV Navigation	2
PCR-DAT: a new point cloud registration method for lidar inertial odometry via distance and Gauss distributed	2
Dynamic modulation of multi-task priority for controlling redundancy insufficient robots	2
Design exploration and kinematic validation of a transtibial prosthesis using a 2SPU-RU parallel mechanism	2
Detecting deformation of a soft cylindrical structure using piezoelectric sensors	2
Convolutional neural network-based deep Q-network (CNN-DQN) path planning method for mobile robots	2
Correction: A path planning algorithm for mobile robots combining bidirectional scanning and sampling with virtual obstacles	2
Multi-agent flocking with obstacle avoidance and safety distance preservation: a fuzzy potential-based approach	2
Research on high-precision positioning method of robot based on laser tracker	2

Design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of a light weight, and wearable cable driven ForeWrist exoskeleton robot for assistance and rehabilitation	2
Admittance Control for Reducing Human Physical Effort in Robot Programming through Motion Guidance	2
Trust and care robots: philosophical considerations, ethical challenges, and viable options	2
Improved sparrow search algorithm-based trajectory planning for combined movements of ankle rehabilitation robot	2
Object-aware data association for the semantically constrained visual SLAM	2