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Papers

(The median citation count of Intelligent Service Robotics is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Task planning and motion control problems of service robots in human-centered environments	577
Trajectory tracking of mobile robots using hedge-agebras-based controllers	81
Scan corner of context: a novel corner feature rotation-invariant descriptor for loop closure detection from 3D LiDAR data	52
Evaluating user performance and perceptions in a block-based visual programming language for socially assistive robots	26
Autonomous gait switching method and experiments of a hexapod walking robot for Mars environment with multiple terrains	24
Empowering robots with social cues: an initiative pose control framework for human–robot interaction	21
A cross-task visuo-tactile representation using point clouds	20
Finite-time sliding mode Control strategies for perturbed input-constrained nonlinear bilateral teleoperation systems with variable-time communication delays	20
Research on AGV path planning in flexible job-shop scheduling problem based on multi-agent deep Q network	20
Fast marching firework method for multi-goal mobile robot path planning in complex obstacle maps	19
A Methodology for end user programming of ROS-based service robots using jigsaw metaphor and ontologies	18
Model-aided 3D shape and force estimation of continuum robots based on Cosserat rod theory and using a magnetic localization system	17
A finger-inspired pneumatic network actuator based on rigid-flexible coupling structure for soft robotic grippers	16
Gait detection of lower limb exoskeleton robot integrating visual perception and geometric features	16
Research on multi-AGV path planning based on map training and action replanning	16
R3T*-MOSafeRL($$\lambda $$): path planning of mobile robots in unknown dynamic environments	15
Adaptive RBF neural network-computed torque control for a pediatric gait exoskeleton system: an experimental study	15
A collision-free path planning method for industrial robot manipulators considering safe human–robot interaction	15
Grasping control using 2D and 3D visual integration for robotic prosthetic hand	14
An efficient network for 3D point cloud moving object detection in autonomous driving environments	13
HDFOS: path planning for heterogeneous truck-drone cooperative delivery and pickup services	13
Event-based reconfiguration control for time-varying formation of robot swarms in narrow spaces	13
Real-time path planning for autonomous vehicle based on teaching–learning-based optimization	13
Development of source seeking algorithm for mobile robots	13
Special Issue on the 2021 Ubiquitous Robots Conference	12

Soft component technology and application for soft robotics	12
Effects of repetitive ROM exercise training using a patient robot with musculoskeletal symptoms	12
Personalized passive training control strategy for a lower limb rehabilitation robot with specified step lengths	12
Correction to: Visiting pebbles on rectangular grids: coordinating multiple robots in mobile fulfilment systems	12
Night-to-day thermal image translation for deep thermal place recognition	12
6-DoF grasp pose estimation based on instance reconstruction	11
Acoustic analysis of ultrasonic air-borne transducer with concave structure	11
Hierarchical Topology Map with Explicit Corridor for global path planning of mobile robots	11
HAC-based adaptive combined pick-up path optimization strategy for intelligent warehouse	11
Multirobot conflict coordination and dynamic obstacle avoidance cooperative path planning	10
Manufacture and development of Taban: a cute back-projected head social robot for educational purposes	10
The robot and the nurse prepare for surgery: early insights into the impact of robot’s inner speech	10
Pas: a scale-invariant approach to maritime search and rescue object detection using preprocessing and attention scaling	9
Tactile object recognition in early phases of grasping using underactuated robotic hands	9
Path planning in dynamic structured environments using transformer-enabled twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient for mobile robots in simulation	9
Posture stabilizing control of quadruped robot based on cart-inverted pendulum model	9
Feature refinement with DBO: optimizing RFRC method for autonomous vehicle detection	9
Dynamic liquid volume estimation using optical tactile sensors and spiking neural network	9
Design and dynamic modeling of a balance rehabilitation cable (BaReCa) robot: integration with patients	8
Towards long-distance inspection for in-pipe robots in water distribution systems with smart motion facilitated by particle filter and multi-phase motion controller	8
Grasping Stability of a Robotic Gripper with Frictional Self-Locking Mechanism	8
Magnetorheological damper for vibration reduction in a robot arm	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
The development of an optimal hedge algebras path following controller for Robotnik	7
Auto-splitting D* lite path planning for large disaster area	7
Improving reinforcement learning based moving object grasping with trajectory prediction	7
MORE: simultaneous multi-view 3D object recognition and pose estimation	7
Cooperative push-grasping in clutter via deep reinforcement learning	7
Collaborative semantic mapping for updating the digital twin in controlled indoor environment	7
Autonomous vehicle lane-change maneuver accounting for emotion-induced driving behavior in other vehicles	7
Automatic spraying motion planning of a shotcrete manipulator	7
Woa-fism planning hexapod robot various gaits	6
Robots in healthcare as envisioned by care professionals	6
Offline spatial–temporal actor-critic learning for robot crowd navigation without behavior regularization	6
NMPC formation control for heterogeneous multi-air vehicles with obstacle avoidance and connectivity maintenance	6
Direct RGB-D visual odometry with point features	5
Real-time monocular visual–inertial SLAM with structural constraints of line and point–line fusion	5
Frontend and backend electronics achieving flexibility and scalability for tomographic tactile sensing	5
Kinematic modeling of PAM-based 3-UPS parallel robot module using string encoders	5
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
A soft gripper driven by conical dielectric elastomer actuator to achieve displacement amplification and compliant grips	5
Analysis of impressions of robot by changing its motion and trajectory parameters for designing parameterized behaviors of home-service robots	5
Gait environments recognition using Gaussian process regression model-based CoP trajectory for wearable robot applications	5
Heterogeneous multi-robot system mission planning with cooperative replenishment through data-driven rendezvous point selection	5
MSM: point cloud alignment algorithm through multi-scale feature fusion and cross-attention mechanism	5
Four-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robots strategy of navigation using hybrid HPSO-GA-PID controller-based YOLO3D-CSSA network	4
Drone-robot to install aerial marker balls for power lines	4
A heuristic for task allocation and path planning of multiple tethered underwater robots considering workload balance	4

Deep reinforcement learning-based autonomous navigation for quadcopter using PPO and improved grey wolf optimizer	4
Robotic furniture assembly: task abstraction, motion planning, and control	4
Time delay compensated disturbance observer-based sliding mode slave controller and neural network model for bilateral teleoperation system	4
A survey on integration of large language models with intelligent robots	4
Fusion learning-based recurrent neural network for human motion prediction	4
Real-time prediction of walking state and percent of gait cycle for robotic prosthetic leg using artificial neural network	4
A* algorithm based on adaptive expansion convolution for unmanned aerial vehicle path planning	4
Robot motion planning using predictive trajectory of moving obstacles	4
Kinematics and stiffness analysis of a wheelchair-based cable-actuated ankle rehabilitation robot with flexure-based variable-stiffness devices	4
Trajectory planning and inverse kinematics solution of Kuka robot using COA along with pick and place application	4
Imaging radar and LiDAR image translation for 3-DOF extrinsic calibration	4
Design and development of a haptic-enabled telerobotic system for improved ultrasonography	4
Low-cost environment-adaptive SLAM for bed-chair robots in complex indoor scenarios	4
Development of a whole-body walking rehabilitation robot and power assistive method using EMG signals	4
Dynamic performance of a series elastic actuator with variable stiffness logarithmic spiral spring	4
Personal assistant robot using reinforcement learning: DARWIN-OP2 as a case study	4
Efficient multi-objective path planning for complex disaster environments: hierarchical target filtering and ranking optimization strategies	3
Combined task and motion planning system for the service robot using hierarchical action decomposition	3
Monte Carlo localization based on off-line feature matching and improved particle swarm optimization for mobile robots	3
A novel cascade calibration method for robotic grinding system	3
SLAM navigation algorithm for lightweight UAV based on vision-reference coupling	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
Research on robot path planning by integrating state-based decision-making A* algorithm and inertial dynamic window approach	3
Experimental investigation of a new type of driving concept for capsule robot	3
Distance estimation with semantic segmentation and edge detection of surround view images	3
Real-time trajectory planning for collaborative robots using incremental multi-objective optimization	3
Real-time semantic octree mapping under aerial-ground cooperative system	3
Sca-pose: category-level 6D pose estimation with adaptive shape prior based on CNN and graph convolution	3
Design and evaluation of hybrid upper limb exoskeleton considering human–robot interaction force	3
Enhanced resampling scheme for Monte Carlo localization	3
Real-time recognition of human interactions from a single RGB-D camera for socially-aware robot navigation	3
On automatic camera shooting systems via PTZ control and DNN-based visual sensing	3
Humanising robot-assisted navigation	3
LiDAR odometry survey: recent advancements and remaining challenges	3
Simple and effective strategies to pick up foods for a meal assistant robot integrated with an integrated spoon and chopstick mechanism	3
Execution and perception of upper limb exoskeleton for stroke patients: a systematic review	3
Real-time interception performance evaluation of certain proportional navigation based guidance laws in aerial ground engagement	3
Exploring the impact of the uncanny valley effect on teenagers’ attitudes toward virtual characters and EFL reading comprehension skills	3
On terrain traversability analysis in unstructured environments: recent advances in forest applications	3
Lmapping: tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry and mapping for degraded environments	3
Remote object navigation for service robots using hierarchical knowledge graph in human-centered environments	3
Human–robot interaction through joint robot planning with large language models	2
A self-adaptive safe A* algorithm for AGV in large-scale storage environment	2
Evaluation of a neuroadaptive admittance controller for ambulation through physical human–robot interaction	2
Deep latent-space sequential skill chaining from incomplete demonstrations	2
Research on high-precision positioning method of robot based on laser tracker	2
A novel adaptive keyframe selection method with multi-source joint constraints for visual SLAM	2
Multi-agent flocking with obstacle avoidance and safety distance preservation: a fuzzy potential-based approach	2
Reinforced bidirectional artificial muscles: enhancing force and stability for soft robotics	2
Design, simulation, and experimental evaluation of a light weight, and wearable cable driven ForeWrist exoskeleton robot for assistance and rehabilitation	2
MAP3F: a decentralized approach to multi-agent pathfinding and collision avoidance with scalable 1D, 2D, and 3D feature fusion	2
Trust and care robots: philosophical considerations, ethical challenges, and viable options	2
Object-aware data association for the semantically constrained visual SLAM	2
Human-embodied drone interface for aerial manipulation: advantages and challenges	2
Admittance Control for Reducing Human Physical Effort in Robot Programming through Motion Guidance	2
A reinforcement learning approach for multi-goal motion planning of autonomous ground vehicles in cluttered environments	2
Time-energy optimization based on integrated model for multi-robot welding task planning	2
Design exploration and kinematic validation of a transtibial prosthesis using a 2SPU-RU parallel mechanism	2
Editorial	2
Memory-based soft actor–critic with prioritized experience replay for autonomous navigation	2
Improved sparrow search algorithm-based trajectory planning for combined movements of ankle rehabilitation robot	2
PCR-DAT: a new point cloud registration method for lidar inertial odometry via distance and Gauss distributed	2
A robust synergetic controller for Quadrotor obstacle avoidance using Bézier curve versus B-spline trajectory generation	2
Dynamic modulation of multi-task priority for controlling redundancy insufficient robots	2
Dual-layer multi-robot path planning in narrow-lane environments under specific traffic policies	2
Design and architecture of a slender and flexible underwater robot	2