IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 12. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Table of Contents311
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors244
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information238
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping218
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist208
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments193
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets193
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation192
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots160
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion155
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects154
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions152
Multi-Contact Locomotion Planning With Bilateral Contact Forces Considering Kinematics and Statics During Contact Transition150
I2KEN: Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain Knowledge Enhancement Network for Lifelong Loop Closure Detection146
Information for Authors146
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction138
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions134
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System126
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal120
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands118
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information116
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios113
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study112
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study111
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift110
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements110
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement109
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation107
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions106
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection103
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation102
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation101
Whole-Body Fuzzy Based Impedance Control of a Humanoid Wheeled Robot98
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation97
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning96
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm94
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots91
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance91
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments89
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking89
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments88
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution87
Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Tracking85
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop83
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots83
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor82
Combining Unsupervised Muscle Co-Contraction Estimation With Bio-Feedback Allows Augmented Kinesthetic Teaching81
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry81
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators80
VECtor: A Versatile Event-Centric Benchmark for Multi-Sensor SLAM80
SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle79
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish79
Personalized Wearable Ankle Robot Using Modular Additive Manufacturing Design78
A sEMG-Based Active-Passive Fusion Rehabilitation Method for Ankle Fracture Rehabilitation Robot after Surgery77
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery77
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation77
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator76
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation75
Inferring Human-Robot Performance Objectives During Locomotion Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control75
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information75
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study74
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance73
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions72
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots70
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives70
Customize-Your-Joy Hand: A user-oriented, cost-effective 22-DOF platform for future human-robot community70
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation70
Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region68
GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-Aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation68
Development of a New 2-DOF Wrist Mechanism Using Reverse Motion Transmission68
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks68
Decoding HD-EMG Signals for Myoelectric Control - How Small Can the Analysis Window Size be?68
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception68
MTIL: Encoding Full History with Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning67
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives67
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments67
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials66
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot66
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance66
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration65
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$65
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots65
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment64
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting64
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation64
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning63
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies63
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics62
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot62
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation62
Design an Underactuated Soft Exoskeleton to Sequentially Provide Knee Extension and Ankle Plantarflexion Assistance61
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research61
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes61
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch61
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning60
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map60
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning60
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots With Mobile Bases via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning60
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration59
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation59
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle59
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces58
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-Training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition With Vision Transformers58
Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness58
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems57
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control57
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving57
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras57
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction57
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving56
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments56
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer56
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning56
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block55
Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Transportation System Based on Hierarchical Quadratic Programming55
Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos55
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)55
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition55
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control55
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment54
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety54
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks54
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy54
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model54
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning54
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot54
Autonomous Runtime Composition of Sensor-Based Skills Using Concurrent Task Planning53
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping53
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions53
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions53
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching53
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction52
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness52
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber52
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device52
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications52
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost52
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism52
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path52
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage52
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning52
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction51
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments51
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy51
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential51
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion51
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents51
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design51
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction51
Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking With Conformal Uncertainty Propagation51
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies50
Exploring Recurrent Long-Term Temporal Fusion for Multi-View 3D Perception50
Discrete Cosserat Static Model-Based Control of Soft Manipulator50
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking50
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization50
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots50
Table of Contents49
DUFOMap: Efficient Dynamic Awareness Mapping49
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps49
P-MapNet: Far-Seeing Map Generator Enhanced by Both SDMap and HDMap Priors48
Legged Robot State Estimation With Dynamic Contact Event Information48
Internal Pressure Pattern Design for Variable Surface Shapes of Tongue-Type Pneumatic Soft Actuator48
Controlling Pneumatic Bending Actuator With Gain-Scheduled Feedforward and Physical Reservoir Computing State Estimation48
Shaping Collective Behaviors in Swarm Robotics Through Probabilistic Motion Decision-Making48
Load Sharing Design of a Multi-legged Adaptable Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesion48
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information48
SamPose: Generalizable Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation via Single-View Prompt48
A Multi-Modal Fusion-Based 3D Multi-Object Tracking Framework With Joint Detection48
A Controllable Tensegrity Bistable Gripper With Adjustable Performance and Multimodal Triggering48
BEVCon: Advancing Bird's Eye View Perception With Contrastive Learning48
Modeling of a Six-Bar Tensegrity Robot Using the Port-Hamiltonian Framework and Experimental Validation47
Nonlinear Optimization for Personalized Path Planning for a Hybrid FES-Exoskeleton System47
ALARM: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Reliable Mimicry for Robust Legged Locomotion47
Smooth Parameterization of Rigid-Body Inertia47
Toward Accurate and Robust Unloading Force Rendering via a Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Body Weight Support System47
Overworld: Assessing the Geometry of the World for Human-Robot Interaction47
Adaptive and Risk-Aware Target Tracking for Robot Teams With Heterogeneous Sensors47
Design of an Accordion-Fold-Inspired Soft Electrohydraulic Actuator for Angular Motion47
A Robust LiDAR-Camera Self-Calibration Via Rotation-Based Alignment and Multi-Level Cost Volume47
Radar-Based Materials Classification Using Deep Wavelet Scattering Transform: A Comparison of Centimeter vs. Millimeter Wave Units47
Expanding Sparse LiDAR Depth and Guiding Stereo Matching for Robust Dense Depth Estimation46
Detection of Texting While Walking in Occluded Environment Using Variational Autoencoder for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation46
PRISM-TopoMap: Online Topological Mapping With Place Recognition and Scan Matching46
Using Mobile AR for Rapid Feasibility Analysis for Deployment of Robots: A Usability Study With Non-Expert Users46
F1 Hand: A Versatile Fixed-Finger Gripper for Delicate Teleoperation and Autonomous Grasping46
Priming Robotic Plantarflexor Resistance With Assistance to Improve Ankle Power During Exoskeleton Gait Training46
A Variable-Stiffness Robotic Link Based on Rotating-Rectangle Auxetic Structures for Safe Human-Robot Interaction46
GNN-Based Decentralized Perception in Multi-Robot Systems for Predicting Worker Actions46
MyoPassivity Map: Does Multi-Channel sEMG Correlate With the Energetic Behavior of Upper-Limb Biomechanics During Physical Human-Robot Interaction?46
A Power-Aware Control Strategy for an Elbow Effort-Compensation Device46
Globally Optimal Fetoscopic Mosaicking Based on Pose Graph Optimisation With Affine Constraints45
High-Performance Hydraulic Soft Robotic Control Using Continuous Flow Regulation and Partial Feedback45
A Compliant Partitioned Shared Control Strategy for an Orbital Robot45
Smooth Path Planning and Dynamic Contact Force Regulation for Robotic Ultrasound Scanning45
Towards an Autonomous Robot-Assistant for Laparoscopy Using Exteroceptive Sensors: Feasibility Study and Implementation45
Vision-and-Force-Based Compliance Control for a Posterior Segment Ophthalmic Surgical Robot44
Imposing Healthy Hip Motion Pattern and Range by Exoskeleton Control for Individualized Assistance44
Towards More Efficient EfficientDets and Real-Time Marine Debris Detection44
Soft Robotic Arm With Extensible Stiffening Layer44
Online and Real-Time Trajectory Generation Method for Unforeseen Events Using a Modified Spline Approach43
Engagement Enhancement Based on Bayesian Optimization for Adaptive Assist-as-Needed Controller43
A Spiny Claws Climbing Robot Based on Self-Sensing Soles43
Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow43
Laser Endoscopic Manipulator Using Spring-Reinforced Multi-DoF Soft Actuator43
Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning43
ST-DepthNet: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Network for Depth Completion Using a Single Non-Repetitive Circular Scanning Lidar43
Task Space Contouring Error Estimation and Precision Iterative Control of Robotic Manipulators43
Nezha-H: An HAUV for Aerial and Underwater Observation and Sampling43
$\mathcal {PLC}$-LiSLAM: LiDAR SLAM With Planes, Lines, and Cylinders43
EFEAR-4D: Ego-Velocity Filtering for Efficient and Accurate 4D Radar Odometry43
Design and Experimental Validation of a Shock-Absorption Mechanism Inspired From the Frog's Forelimbs42
Learning Robot Exploration Strategy With 4D Point-Clouds-Like Information as Observations42
Few-Shot Instance Grasping of Novel Objects in Clutter42
A Springy Leg and a Double Backflip42
WS-OPE: Weakly Supervised 6-D Object Pose Regression Using Relative Multi-Camera Pose Constraints42
Linear Expressions of Drawbar Pull and Driving Torque for Grouser-Wheeled Planetary Rovers Without Terrain Mechanical Parameters42
Modeling and Implementation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot42
Gyro-Net: IMU Gyroscopes Random Errors Compensation Method Based on Deep Learning42
Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping42
Corrections to “Scooping Manipulation via Motion Control With a Two-Fingered Gripper and Its Application to Bin Picking” [Oct 21 6394-6401]42
Equivariant IMU Preintegration with Biases:a Galilean Group Approach41
S$^{2}$ Loop: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatio Loop Closure Detector for Resource-Constrained Platforms41
How Bad is Selfish Driving? Bounding the Inefficiency of Equilibria in Urban Driving Games41
Enabling Grasp Synthesis Approaches to Task-Oriented Grasping Considering the End-State Comfort and Confidence Effects41
Observability-Aware Online Multi-Lidar Extrinsic Calibration41
Learning-Based Efficient Phase- Amplitude Modulation and Hybrid Control for MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment41
Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs41
Two-Stream Based Multi-Stage Hybrid Decoder for Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth41
Learning Failure Prevention Skills for Safe Robot Manipulation41
A Benchmark Dataset for Collaborative SLAM in Service Environments40
Multimodal Active Measurement for Human Mesh Recovery in Close Proximity40
MonoSG: Monocular 3D Object Detection With Stereo Guidance40
Magnetically-Assisted Microfluidic Printing for the Fabrication of Anisotropic Skeletal Muscle Structure40
Experimental Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism With Arc Prismatic Pairs40
Learning Policies by Learning Rules40
LoopNet: Where to Focus? Detecting Loop Closures in Dynamic Scenes40
Rigid-Soft Hybrid Suction Cups for Enhanced Anti-Torque and Energy-Efficient Attachment40
MIntNet: Rapid Motion Intention Forecasting of Coupled Human-Robot Systems With Simulation-to-Real Autoregressive Neural Networks40
Adaptive Shape Formation Against Swarm-Scale Variants in Robot Swarms40
Where are You? Unscented Particle Filter for Single Range Relative Pose Estimation in Unobservable Motion Using UWB and VIO40
Mixing Left and Right-Hand Driving Data in a Hierarchical Framework With LLM Generation39
Design of a Wearable Mechanism With Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-Based Artificial Muscle for Assisting With Shoulder Abduction39
Continuous Safety Control of Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments39
Precision Coordinated Control of Gantry Multi-Axis Systems With Coupled Dynamics and Prescribed Performance39
OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping39
Operando Multi-Physical Characterization Using Nanorobotic Manipulation With a Picometer-Scale Positioning Resolution39
Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Skill Acquisition From a Suboptimal Demonstration39
Cooperative Payload Estimation by a Team of Mocobots39
Fuzzy Ensembles of Reinforcement Learning Policies for Systems With Variable Parameters39
Controllable Clothoid Path Generation for Autonomous Vehicles38
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