OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 70. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	354
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	269
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	226
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments	225
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	215
Information for Authors	204
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction	172
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions	170
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System	166
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal	162
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands	156
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	154
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study	151
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	144
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	134
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	130
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes	127
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	127
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection	127
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning	126
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation	123
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	122
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction	117
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	114
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	113

SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle	112
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions	110
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness	105
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning	104
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems	102
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	100
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy	99
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps	98
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces	97
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation	95
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots	94
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost	94
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments	92
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism	92
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution	90
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry	88
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator	86
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation	85
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch	84
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation	84
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy	84
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path	83
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies	83
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives	83
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish	82
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition	79
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot	77
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching	77
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks	77
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety	77
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions	76
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning	74
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions	74
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber	74
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage	74
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device	74
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction	73
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design	73
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion	72
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction	71
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction	71
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators	70
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement	70
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives	70
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance	70