IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Freetures: Localization in Signed Distance Function Maps536
Table of Contents255
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information200
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors197
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Publication Information192
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information192
On Robust Context-Aware Navigation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles190
Human-Robot Collaborative Tele-Grasping in Clutter With Five-Fingered Robotic Hands187
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation187
Dual Attention-Aided Cooperative Deep-Spatiotemporal-Feature-Extraction Network for Semi-Supervised Soft Sensing181
3D Guidance Law for Flexible Target Enclosing With Inherent Safety180
DINOv2-Based UAV Visual Self-Localization in Low-Altitude Urban Environments164
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots163
Intuitive Hand Positional Guidance Using McKibben-Based Surface Tactile Sensations to Shoulder and Elbow161
Load Sharing in Distributed Collaborative Manipulation159
Image-Based Visual Servoing for Enhanced Cooperation of Dual-Arm Manipulation156
CaseVPR: Correlation-Aware Sequential Embedding for Sequence-to-Frame Visual Place Recognition143
A Rotary Actuation Strategy for Altering Magnetically Controlled Capsule Endoscope Motion State142
OVL-MAP: An Online Visual Language Map Approach for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments140
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost139
Anytime Planning for End-Effector Trajectory Tracking134
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor124
Aim My Robot: Precision Local Navigation to Any Object123
Bio-Inspired Electrostatic Detection Method for Threat Perception in Autonomous Platforms121
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information116
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information115
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition114
A Minimally Supervised Approach Based on Variational Autoencoders for Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Robots114
iG-LIO: An Incremental GICP-Based Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-Inertial Odometry110
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong109
An Outlier Exposure Approach to Improve Visual Anomaly Detection Performance for Mobile Robots108
Safety-Aware Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction108
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks107
Online Centroidal Angular Momentum Reference Generation and Motion Optimization for Humanoid Push Recovery103
Household Cloth Object Set: Fostering Benchmarking in Deformable Object Manipulation103
High-Performance Morphing Wing for Large-Scale Bio-Inspired Unmanned Aerial Vehicles102
MTABot: An Efficient Morphable Terrestrial-Aerial Robot With Two Transformable Wheels101
Design-Modeling and Control of a Novel Wearable Exoskeleton for Lower-Limb Enhancement96
Self-Supervised Moving Vehicle Detection From Audio-Visual Cues96
Closed-Loop Dynamic Control of a Soft Manipulator Using Deep Reinforcement Learning94
Device for Simultaneous Wind and Raindrop Energy Harvesting Operating on the Surface of Plant Leaves94
Modeling, Gait Sequence Design, and Control Architecture of BADGER Underground Robot93
MotionPerceiver: Real-Time Occupancy Forecasting for Embedded Systems93
Recognition and Prediction of Surgical Actions Based on Online Robotic Tool Detection91
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control86
An Effective Head-Based HRI for 6D Robotic Grasping Using Mixed Reality86
A Real-Time, Semi-Autonomous Navigation Platform for Soft Robotic Bronchoscopy85
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots85
Computational Model of Robot Trust in Human Co-Worker for Physical Human-Robot Collaboration85
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors84
PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain84
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information82
Koopman-Based Robust Learning Control With Extended State Observer82
Search3D: Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation81
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments81
A Variable Sensing Range Electrical Impedance Tomography Sensor for Robot Electric Skins80
Event-Frame-Inertial Odometry Using Point and Line Features Based on Coarse-to-Fine Motion Compensation79
Multiagent Trajectory Prediction With Difficulty-Guided Feature Enhancement Network76
Kinematic Synthesis of a Serial Manipulator Using Gradient-Based Optimization on Lie Groups76
On the Optimal Design of Underactuated Fingers Using Rolling Contact Joints75
SMR-GA: Semantic Map Registration Under Large Perspective Differences Through Genetic Algorithm75
Reinforcement Learning of Flexible Policies for Symbolic Instructions With Adjustable Mapping Specifications75
SALSA: Swift Adaptive Lightweight Self-Attention for Enhanced LiDAR Place Recognition74
Attitude-Estimation-Free GNSS and IMU Integration73
Autonomous 3D Position Control for a Safe Single Motor Micro Aerial Vehicle73
Efficient Safety-Enhanced Velocity Planning for Autonomous Driving With Chance Constraints73
A Comparison of Imitation Learning Algorithms for Bimanual Manipulation73
Toward Continuum Robot Tentacles for Lung Interventions: Exploring Folding Support Disks73
Sim-to-Real of Soft Robots With Learned Residual Physics73
Hand It to Me Formally! Data-Driven Control for Human-Robot Handovers With Signal Temporal Logic72
MoSS: Monocular Shape Sensing for Continuum Robots71
Minimum Time Formation Control of AUVs With Smooth Transition in Communication Topology70
STHN: Deep Homography Estimation for UAV Thermal Geo-Localization With Satellite Imagery70
Off-Policy Evaluation With Online Adaptation for Robot Exploration in Challenging Environments69
Unifying Representation and Calibration With 3D Foundation Models69
Learning User Preferences for Complex Cobotic Tasks: Meta-Behaviors and Human Groups68
Robustification of Bayesian-Inference-Based Gait Estimation for Lower-Limb Wearable Robots68
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning68
RP-SG: Relation Prediction in 3D Scene Graphs for Unobserved Objects Localization65
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects65
Walk-Burrow-Tug: Legged Anchoring Analysis Using RFT-Based Granular Limit Surfaces65
Autonomous System for Vaginal Cuff Closure via Model-Based Planning and Markerless Tracking Techniques64
Motion-to-Matching: A Mixed Paradigm for 3D Single Object Tracking64
Contact-Rich SE(3)-Equivariant Robot Manipulation Task Learning via Geometric Impedance Control64
Active Classification of Moving Targets With Learned Control Policies64
Ranking-Based Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning63
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction63
Robotic Perception-Motion Synergy for Novel Rope Wrapping Tasks63
Sleep When Everything Looks Fine: Self-Triggered Monitoring for Signal Temporal Logic Tasks63
Learning Sequence Descriptor Based on Spatio-Temporal Attention for Visual Place Recognition62
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents62
On the Federated Learning Framework for Cooperative Perception62
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot62
Design, Modeling, and Control of a Quadruped Robot SPIDAR: Spherically Vectorable and Distributed Rotors Assisted Air-Ground Quadruped Robot61
Design of a Multi-Environmentally Adaptable Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot61
Car-Studio: Learning Car Radiance Fields From Single-View and Unlimited In-the-Wild Images60
Autonomous Navigation System in Pedestrian Scenarios Using a Dreamer-Based Motion Planner60
Foam-Embedded Soft Robotic Joint With Inverse Kinematic Modeling by Iterative Self-Improving Learning59
GFANet: Group Fusion Aggregation Network for Real Time Stereo Matching59
Learning Neural Traffic Rules59
A Soft Continuum Robot With Self-Controllable Variable Curvature59
Reactive Base Control for On-the-Move Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments58
Identification and Learning-Based Control of an End-Effector for Targeted Throwing58
NeuralFloors: Conditional Street-Level Scene Generation From BEV Semantic Maps via Neural Fields58
Differentiable Cloth Parameter Identification and State Estimation in Manipulation58
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$58
Online Time-Informed Kinodynamic Motion Planning of Nonlinear Systems58
A Sparse Octree-Based CNN for Probabilistic Occupancy Prediction Applied to Next Best View Planning57
Impact Analysis for the Planning of Targeted Non-Slippage Impacts of Robot Manipulators57
An Ultralight Air-Ground Vehicle Capable of Sustained Amphibious Maneuverability and Bio-Inspired Modality Transition57
Deformable Linear Objects Manipulation With Online Model Parameters Estimation57
Hybrid Manipulator With Force Estimation for Lower Gastrointestinal Interventions57
On-Demand Branching Mechanism Using Heat Cutting for Soft Inflatable Growing Robot56
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm56
Multi-Axis Force Sensing in Laparoscopic Surgery56
Robust Neural Visual Inertial Odometry With Deep Velocity Constraint56
Enhancing Elderly Mobility: A Sturdy, Two-Body Robot for Handlebar Placement in Any Location55
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation55
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes55
The Fingertip Manipulability Assessment of Tendon-Driven Multi-Fingered Hands55
Scheduling Dual-Arm Multi-Cluster Tools With Residency Time Constraints Beyond Swap-Based Strategies and Module-Bound Regions54
PRIEST: Projection Guided Sampling-Based Optimization for Autonomous Navigation54
Design of Impact-Free Gaits for Planar Bipeds and their Stabilization Using Impulsive Control54
On High Performance Control of Concentric Tube Continuum Robots Through Parsimonious Calibration54
Collaborative Low Frame Rate UAV Tracking by Proposals54
Multi-Drone Collaborative Shepherding Through Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning54
Action Contextualization: Adaptive Task Planning and Action Tuning Using Large Language Models54
Transformer-Based Model Predictive Control: Trajectory Optimization via Sequence Modeling54
Multi-Agent Motion Planning With Bézier Curve Optimization Under Kinodynamic Constraints53
MICL: Mutual Information Guided Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition53
Constraining Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces for Robot Manipulation via Dataset Refinement53
Steerable Flipping Elastic Robot That Leverages Elastic Energy Through Both Bending and Twisting Deformation53
GeoCluster: Enhancing Visual Place Recognition in Spatial Domain on Aerial Vehicle Platforms53
NEWTON: Neural View-Centric Mapping for On-the-Fly Large-Scale SLAM53
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection53
Bayesian Optimization for Robust Robotic Grasping Using a Sensorized Compliant Hand53
Probabilistic Degeneracy Detection for Point-to-Plane Error Minimization52
Enhancing Scene Understanding for Vision-and-Language Navigation by Knowledge Awareness52
Fast Decentralized State Estimation for Legged Robot Locomotion via EKF and MHE52
Effective Search for Control Hierarchies Within the Policy Decomposition Framework52
Flying Calligrapher: Contact-Aware Motion and Force Planning and Control for Aerial Manipulation52
Open-Structure: Structural Benchmark Dataset for SLAM Algorithms52
Inferring Occluded Agent Behavior in Dynamic Games From Noise Corrupted Observations51
Real-Time Support Terrain Mapping and Terrain Adaptive Local Planning for Quadruped Robots51
Versatile Perching Using a Passive Mechanism With Under Actuated Fingers for Multirotor AAV51
Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Robot Continual Learning: A Guided Policy Search Approach Enhanced With Memory-Aware Synapses51
Configurable Embodied Data Generation for Class-Agnostic RGB-D Video Segmentation51
Self-Supervised Place Recognition by Refining Temporal and Featural Pseudo Labels From Panoramic Data51
Long-Term Human Trajectory Prediction Using 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs51
Constrained Dirichlet Distribution Policy: Guarantee Zero Constraint Violation Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Robotic Control51
Reshaping Local Path Planner50
Developing Cooperative Policies for Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning Tasks50
Detection and Management of Human-Cable Collision in Cable-Driven Parallel Robots50
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation50
RoadRunner M&M - Learning Multi-Range Multi-Resolution Traversability Maps for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation50
Multi-Robot Symmetric Rendezvous Search on the Line50
Learning an Explainable Trajectory Generator Using the Automaton Generative Network (AGN)49
Blind as a Bat: Audible Echolocation on Small Robots49
Heterogeneous Deep Metric Learning for Ground and Aerial Point Cloud-Based Place Recognition49
Learning Cooperative Multi-Agent Policies With Partial Reward Decoupling49
Learning-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Articulated Soft Robots Using Recurrent Neural Networks49
Effect of Robot Embodiment on Satisfaction With Recommendations in Shopping Malls48
Learning to Predict Navigational Patterns From Partial Observations48
Cooperative Object Manipulation Under Signal Temporal Logic Tasks and Uncertain Dynamics48
Sim-to-Real Transfer of Automatic Extinguishing Strategy for Firefighting Robots48
Correction to “A Sigmoid-Colon-Straightening Soft Actuator With Peristaltic Motion for Colonoscopy Insertion Assistance: Easycolon” [Apr 21 3577-3584]48
This is the Way: Differential Bayesian Filtering for Agile Trajectory Synthesis48
Learning Variable Impedance Control for Aerial Sliding on Uneven Heterogeneous Surfaces by Proprioceptive and Tactile Sensing48
Tumbling Locomotion of Tetrahedral Soft-Limbed Robots47
Needle Tip Pose Estimation for Ultrasound-Guided Steerable Flexible Needle With a Complicated Trajectory in Soft Tissue47
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study47
DINO-MOT: 3D Multi-Object Tracking With Visual Foundation Model for Pedestrian Re-Identification Using Visual Memory Mechanism47
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information47
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish47
MoD-SLAM: Monocular Dense Mapping for Unbounded 3D Scene Reconstruction47
Bioinspired Drone Actuated Using Wing and Aileron Motion for Extended Flight Capabilities46
NESM-γ: An Upper-Limb Exoskeleton With Compliant Actuators for Clinical Deployment46
Composite Disturbance Rejection Control Strategy for Multi-Quadrotor Transportation System46
Transfer Learning for Efficient Intent Prediction in Lower-Limb Prosthetics: A Strategy for Limited Datasets46
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking46
Deep Learning-based 3D Magnetic Microrobot Tracking using 2D MR Images46
Predicting Sagittal-Plane Swing Hip Kinematics in Response to Trips46
GraphDistNet: A Graph-Based Collision-Distance Estimator for Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization45
Planning of Power Grasps Using Infinite Program Under Complementary Constraints45
Multi-Agent Active Search: A Reinforcement Learning Approach45
Editing Driver Character: Socially-Controllable Behavior Generation for Interactive Traffic Simulation45
Soft Robotic Fabric Actuator With Elastic Bands for High Force and Bending Performance in Hand Exoskeletons44
Safety-Aware Causal Representation for Trustworthy Offline Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving44
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration44
Unified and Fast Human Trajectory Prediction Via Conditionally Parameterized Normalizing Flow44
Automated Design of Embedded Constraints for Soft Hands Enabling New Grasp Strategies44
Deep Learning Based 6-DoF Antipodal Grasp Planning From Point Cloud in Random Bin-Picking Task Using Single-View44
High-Speed Detector for Low-Powered Devices in Aerial Grasping44
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios44
Changes in Gait Parameters Due to Visual and Head Oscillations in Football Players and Non-Athletes43
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer43
Visual-Force-Tactile Fusion for Gentle Intricate Insertion Tasks43
Cascade RDN: Towards Accurate Localization in Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection With Structural Anomaly Generation43
An Adaptive Finite-Time Force-Sensorless Tracking Control Scheme for Pneumatic Muscle Actuators by an Optimal Force Estimation43
A Multi-Manned Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem With Positional Constraints43
Experimental Performance Comparison of Bidirectional Actuator Configurations for Suspended Aerial Platforms43
Immediate Biomechanical Effects of Providing Adaptive Assistance With an Ankle Exoskeleton in Individuals After Stroke43
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras43
TransCG: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset for Transparent Object Depth Completion and a Grasping Baseline43
Leadership Inference for Multi-Agent Interactions43
Viko 2.0: A Hierarchical Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Gripper With Visuotactile Sensor43
Deep Tri-Training for Semi-Supervised Image Segmentation43
CMIF-VIO: A Novel Cross Modal Interaction Framework for Visual Inertial Odometry43
Upside-Down Brachiation Robot Using Elastic Energy Stored Through Soft Body Deformation43
Domain Concretization From Examples: Addressing Missing Domain Knowledge Via Robust Planning43
A Versatile Affordance Modeling Framework Using Screw Primitives to Increase Autonomy During Manipulation Contact Tasks43
Development of an Alarm Pattern Detection Scheme for Managing Alarm Floods in Bumping Process43
Learning Bidirectional Translation Between Descriptions and Actions With Small Paired Data43
Sequential Gaussian Variational Inference for Nonlinear State Estimation and Its Application in Robot Navigation43
Teleoperation of a Suspended Aerial Manipulator Using a Handheld Camera With an IMU42
Improving the Representation and Extraction of Contact Information in Vision-Based Tactile Sensors Using Continuous Marker Pattern42
Learning to Shape by Grinding: Cutting-Surface-Aware Model-Based Reinforcement Learning42
Corrections to “A Piecewise Monotonic Smooth Phase Variable for Speed-Adaption Control of Powered Knee-Ankle Prostheses”42
Online Kinematic Calibration for Legged Robots42
KINet: Unsupervised Forward Models for Robotic Pushing Manipulation42
Meta Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Design of Legged Robots42
AirTwins: Modular Bi-Copters Capable of Splitting From Their Combined Quadcopter in Midair42
Learning-Based Approach for a Soft Assistive Robotic Arm to Achieve Simultaneous Position and Force Control42
Detaching and Boosting: Dual Engine for Scale-Invariant Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation42
Design, Modeling and Control of a Two Flight Mode Capable Single Wing Rotorcraft With Mid-Air Transition Ability41
Decentralized Cooperative Localization: A Communication-Efficient Dual-Fusion Consistent Approach41
Are Doppler Velocity Measurements Useful for Spinning Radar Odometry?41
Multi-Hypothesis Tracking in a Graph-Based World Model for Knowledge-Driven Active Perception41
Development of a Suspension Backpack With Quasi-Zero Stiffness and Controllable Damping41
Design, Modeling and Control of a Top-Loading Fully-Actuated Cargo Transportation Multirotor41
Class Incremental Robotic Pick-and-Place via Incremental Few-Shot Object Detection41
Self-Supervised Scene Flow Estimation With 4-D Automotive Radar41
A Diffusion-Based Data Generator for Training Object Recognition Models in Ultra-Range Distance41
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments41
A Cylindrical Halbach Array Magnetic Actuation System for Longitudinal Robot Actuation Across 2D Workplane41
Optimal Measurement Poses Using LSSA for Robot Kinematics-Flexibility Calibration41
Environment Warped Gait Trajectory Optimization for Complex Terrains41
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch41
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment41
Momentum-Aware Trajectory Optimization and Control for Agile Quadrupedal Locomotion40
Map Explorations via Dynamic Tree Structured Graph40
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance40
GVGNet: Gaze-Directed Visual Grounding for Learning Under-Specified Object Referring Intention40
Parameter Estimation and Control of Multirotors40
Variable-Friction-Based In-Hand Manipulation of Fabrics Applied to Unfolding Operations40
Design and Control of a Small Humanoid Equipped With Flight Unit and Wheels for Multimodal Locomotion40
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands40
Planning of Obstacle-Aided Navigation for Multi-Legged Robots Using a Sampling-Based Method Over Directed Graphs40
Lightweight Structured Line Map Based Visual Localization40
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces39
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