OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 66. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Information for Authors	264
Table of Contents	234
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	216
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors	214
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition	196
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping	186
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist	186
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments	179
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets	149
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation	145
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation	143
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation	142
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials	140
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots	140
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion	127
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry	127
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects	125
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions	112
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$	110
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios	107
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift	107
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)	107
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study	105
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer	104
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments	104

ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study	102
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements	100
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation	98
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information	98
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions	95
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research	92
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments	92
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving	92
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement	89
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control	88
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance	86
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection	86
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning	84
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting	82
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor	82
Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission	78
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction	77
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential	77
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications	76
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device	76
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots	75
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions	75
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design	75
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment	75
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control	73
Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning	73
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path	73
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots	73
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies	73
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions	71
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop	71
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots	70
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping	70
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study	69
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning	68
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching	68
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy	68
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber	66
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block	66
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage	66
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost	66