OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Intelligent Service 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 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
Research on AGV path planning in flexible job-shop scheduling problem based on multi-agent deep Q network	20
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
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
Research on multi-AGV path planning based on map training and action replanning	16
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
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
R3T*-MOSafeRL($$\lambda $$): path planning of mobile robots in unknown dynamic environments	15
Grasping control using 2D and 3D visual integration for robotic prosthetic hand	14
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
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
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
Special Issue on the 2021 Ubiquitous Robots Conference	12
Soft component technology and application for soft robotics	12
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
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	10
The robot and the nurse prepare for surgery: early insights into the impact of robot’s inner speech	10
Multirobot conflict coordination and dynamic obstacle avoidance cooperative path planning	10
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
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
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
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
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
The development of an optimal hedge algebras path following controller for Robotnik	7
Auto-splitting D* lite path planning for large disaster area	7
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
Woa-fism planning hexapod robot various gaits	6
Robots in healthcare as envisioned by care professionals	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
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
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