IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 13. 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.)
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Table of Contents364
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information283
High Dynamic Range Force Sensing of a Robot Hand Combining Signals on Tip and Wrist235
Bayesian Filtering for Homography Estimation235
Information for Authors224
G2-SDF: Geometry-Guided Neural Signed Distance Fields for Scalable and Detailed Reconstruction217
Multi-Joint Actuation of Robotic Arm Using a Switchable Tendon-Sheath Drive System182
HIF: Height Interval Filtering for Efficient Dynamic Points Removal175
On the Use of Magnets to Robustify the Motion Control of Soft Hands174
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information172
Unsupervised 3D Link Segmentation of Articulated Objects With a Mixture of Coherent Point Drift160
TSO-BoW: Accurate Long-Term Loop Closure Detection With Constant Query Time via Online Bag of Words and Trajectory Segmentation158
FRTree Planner: Robot Navigation in Cluttered and Unknown Environments With Tree of Free Regions157
A Control Framework for Accurate Mechanical Impedance Rendering With Series-Elastic Joints in Prosthetic Actuation Applications145
The Flux One Magnetic Navigation System: A Preliminary Assessment for Stent Implantation144
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Information for Authors138
Leveraging Vision-Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Tracking136
Electric Sense Based Pose Estimation and Localization for Small Underwater Robots133
Time-Optimal Spiral Trajectories With Closed-Form Solutions132
Uncoupled Stability Dynamic Range for Hunt-Crossley Modeled Virtual Environments130
Online Learning of Continuous Signed Distance Fields Using Piecewise Polynomials130
Point-Line LIVO Using Patch-Based Gradient Optimization for Degenerate Scenes127
LTLDoG: Satisfying Temporally-Extended Symbolic Constraints for Safe Diffusion-Based Planning124
Pointillism Wall Painting Drone Using Bouncing Frequency Control118
Learning and Executing Re-Usable Behaviour Trees From Natural Language Instruction118
Matched Filtering Based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments117
Probably Approximately Correct Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (PAC-NMPC)113
RevLock: A Reversible Self-Locking Mechanism Driven by Linear Actuators for Foldable Robots and Systems112
MTIL: Encoding Full History With Mamba for Temporal Imitation Learning110
Robotic Skins With Integrated Actuation, Sensing, and Variable Stiffness107
Multi-Mode Motion Control of Reconfigurable Vortex-Shaped Microrobot Swarms for Targeted Tumor Therapy106
Learning to Remove Bad Weather: Towards Robust Visual Perception for Self-Driving102
Swarm Navigation Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Complex Obstacle Environments102
Stability Analysis of a Dual-Rate Haptic System: A New Closed-Form Solution100
Self-supervised Scale Recovery for Decoupled Visual-inertial Odometry99
Exploiting a Simple Asymmetric Pleating Method to Realize a Textile Based Bending Actuator97
Human-in-the-Loop Modeling and Control of an Upper Limb Exosuit With Tendon-Sheath Actuation97
Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation96
Development and Stiffness Optimization for a Flexible-Tail Robotic Fish95
A Kelvin Wake Avoidance Scheme for Autonomous Sailing Robots Based on Orientation-Restricted Dubins Path94
Enhancing Cooperative Exploration and Planning: UAV-Legged Robot Synergy93
Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-Biased Distributed Q-Learning89
A Hierarchical Approach for Joint Task Allocation and Path Planning88
Implementation and Evaluation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot87
A Proximity-Based Framework for Human-Robot Seamless Close Interactions87
A TSP-Based Online Algorithm for Multi-Task Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery87
Self-Management of ROV Umbilical Using Sliding Buoys and Stop86
Part-Guided 3D RL for Sim2Real Articulated Object Manipulation85
Mobile Manipulation Instruction Generation From Multiple Images With Automatic Metric Enhancement85
Self-Organised Sequential Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Closely Cooperation Tasks85
Novel Structural Flexible Magnetic Tactile Sensors: Design, Numerical Studies and Tactile Recognition85
Agile Plane Transition of a Hexapod Climbing Robot83
Self-Supervised Local Topology Representation for Random Cluster Matching82
Global Grounding in Flexible Robot Tasks With Object Number Variety82
A Null Space Compliance Approach for Maintaining Safety and Tracking Performance in Human-Robot Interactions81
Morphology-Changeable Soft Pads Facilitate Locomotion in Wet Conditions81
CoCo Games: Graphical Game-Theoretic Swarm Control for Communication-Aware Coverage80
Addressing COLREG Rule 2b: COLREG and Risk Aware Manoeuvre-Based Predictive Planning77
Human-State-Aware Controller for a Tethered Aerial Robot Guiding a Human by Physical Interaction77
A Multi-Scale Convolutional Hybrid Attention Residual Network for Enhancing Underwater Image and Identifying Underwater Multi-Scene Sea Cucumber77
Autonomous Drone-Ground Robot Alignment Through Ground Robot Visual Servo Control With Drone Detection and Tilt Correction76
DSE: A Denoising State Estimator for RL-Based Bipedal Robot Locomotion76
Acoustic Array Robot Based on the Dual-Rotation Mechatronic Design76
SurfAAV: Design and Implementation of a Novel Multimodal Surfing Aquatic-Aerial Vehicle75
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators74
BagIt! An Adaptive Dual-Arm Manipulation of Fabric Bags for Object Bagging73
Trajectory Generation for Legged Robots Based on a Closed-Form Solution of Centroidal Dynamics73
Spline-FRIDA: Towards Diverse, Humanlike Robot Painting Styles With a Sample-Efficient, Differentiable Brush Stroke Model73
Linear-Time Reconfiguration of Sliding-Only Cubic Modular Robots Under Severe Space Requirements73
A Versatile Underactuated Robotic Hand for Cloth Manipulation73
Memory-Efficient Voxelized Renderable Neural 3D Spatial Representation for Vision-Based Robotics73
iCaps: Iterative Category-Level Object Pose and Shape Estimation72
Whole-Body Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulation at Zero Added Cost72
A Soft Finger With Tensile Variable Stiffness Based on the Cross-Sliding Jamming Mechanism71
CCVO: Cascaded CNNs for Fast Monocular Visual Odometry Towards the Dynamic Environment69
NISB-Fusion: Multi-Agent Mapping and Map Merging With Neural Implicit Spatial Block69
MPR-RL: Multi-Prior Regularized Reinforcement Learning for Knowledge Transfer68
Optimization-Based Trajectory Tracking Approach for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Unknown Environments68
Real-Time Communication Relay Planning With a Low-Complexity Network Quality Prediction Model in Dynamic Indoor Missions68
L-BIRD: Lightweight Bio-Inspired Rotary-Wing Drone68
VLM-SFD: VLM-Assisted Siamese Flow Diffusion Framework for Dual-Arm Cooperative Manipulation68
Continuous Gaussian Process Pre-Optimization for Asynchronous Event-Inertial Odometry68
A Target-Guided Telemanipulation Architecture for Assisted Grasping68
Robust Localization of Occluded Targets in Aerial Manipulation Via Range-Only Mapping67
A Low Cost Multi Degree of Freedom Capacitive Soft Sensor67
GMPC: Geometric Model Predictive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking67
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Continuum Robot for General Purpose Loco-Manipulation67
Ctrl-VIO: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Odometry for Rolling Shutter Cameras65
Towards Equilibrium Coordination With Stein Variational Game64
Customize-Your-Joy Hand: A User-Oriented, Cost-Effective 22-DOF Platform for Future Human-Robot Community64
Concept and Prototype Development of Adaptive Touch Walking Support Robot for Maximizing Human Physical Potential63
Hybrid-Driven Disc-Shaped Autonomous Underwater Vehicle With High Maneuverability and Gliding Capability: Design and Experiments63
A Robotic Manipulator Using Dual-Motor Joints: Prototype Design and Anti-Backlash Control62
Adaptive Prediction Ensemble: Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Motion Forecasting62
Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance62
Single Pump-Valve Pneumatic Actuation With Continuous Flow Rate Control for Soft Robots62
Personalized Wearable Ankle Robot Using Modular Additive Manufacturing Design62
Learning-Based Propulsion Control for Amphibious Quadruped Robots With Dynamic Adaptation to Changing Environment62
Cross Fusion of Point Cloud and Learned Image for Loop Closure Detection62
Exploring Human Preferences for Adapting Inappropriate Robot Navigation Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study62
Caterpillar-Inspired Insect-Scale Climbing Robot Using Dry Adhesives62
Discrete Cosserat Static Model-Based Control of Soft Manipulator61
Robotic Ankle Exoskeleton and Limb Angle Biofeedback for Assisting Stroke Gait: A Feasibility Study61
ANN-Based Optimization of Human Gait Data Obtained From a Robot-Mounted 3D Camera: A Multiple Sclerosis Case Study60
External and Internal Sensor Fusion Based Localization Strategy for 6-DOF Pose Estimation of a Magnetic Capsule Robot60
Soft Fluidic Actuator for Locomotion in Multi-Phase Environments59
G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-on-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation With a Single Robotic Arm59
Characterizing the Complexity of Social Robot Navigation Scenarios59
Automatic Navigation of a Microrobotic Swarm for Tracking Multiple Mobile Targets59
CAHSOR: Competence-Aware High-Speed Off-Road Ground Navigation in $\mathbb {SE}(3)$59
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning Based on Probabilistic Semantic Segmentation59
Transition Gradient From Standing to Traveling Waves for Energy-Efficient Slope Climbing of a Gecko-Inspired Robot59
Spectral Geometric Verification: Re-Ranking Point Cloud Retrieval for Metric Localization59
Aerial Grasping and the Velocity Sufficiency Region58
Object Pose Estimation From RGB-D Images With Affordance-Instance Segmentation Constraint for Semantic Robot Manipulation58
You Only Plan Once: A Learning-Based One-Stage Planner With Guidance Learning58
Comparison of Distributed Task Allocation Algorithms Considering Non-Ideal Communication Factors for Multi-UAV Collaborative Visit Missions58
Area Coverage With Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots57
Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Cable-Driven Parallel Robots With Mobile Bases via Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning57
DFS-SLAM: A Visual SLAM Algorithm for Deep Fusion of Semantic Information57
Domain Randomization for Learning to Navigate in Human Environments57
Inspired by Physical Intelligence of an Elephant Trunk: Biomimetic Soft Robot With Pre-Programmable Localized Stiffness57
A sEMG-Based Active-Passive Fusion Rehabilitation Method for Ankle Fracture Rehabilitation Robot after Surgery57
Human-Robot Variable Impedance Skills Transfer Learning Based on Dynamic Movement Primitives57
I2KEN: Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain Knowledge Enhancement Network for Lifelong Loop Closure Detection57
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Large-Scale Robot Exploration56
Multi Actor-Critic DDPG for Robot Action Space Decomposition: A Framework to Control Large 3D Deformation of Soft Linear Objects56
Magnetic Field-Driven Bristle-Bots56
Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control for Attitude Tracking of Underwater Robots With Large Range Pitch Variations in Confined Spaces56
DUFOMap: Efficient Dynamic Awareness Mapping56
Tactile-Based Grasping Stability Prediction Based on Human Grasp Demonstration for Robot Manipulation56
BeautyMap: Binary-Encoded Adaptable Ground Matrix for Dynamic Points Removal in Global Maps56
Inferring Human-Robot Performance Objectives During Locomotion Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inverse Optimal Control55
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking55
Think Step by Step: Chain-of-Gesture Prompting for Error Detection in Robotic Surgical Videos55
Collaborative Multi-Object Tracking With Conformal Uncertainty Propagation55
The Wheelbot: A Jumping Reaction Wheel Unicycle55
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning55
Identifying Expert Behavior in Offline Training Datasets Improves Behavioral Cloning of Robotic Manipulation Policies54
Deforming Garment Classification With Shallow Temporal Extraction and Tree-Based Fusion54
Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning With Disentanglement-Based Reachability Planning53
Online Learning of Neural Surface Light Fields Alongside Real-Time Incremental 3D Reconstruction53
Robust Multi-User In-Hand Object Recognition in Human-Robot Collaboration Using a Wearable Force-Myography Device53
Exploring Recurrent Long-Term Temporal Fusion for Multi-View 3D Perception53
BRL/Pisa/IIT SoftHand: A Low-Cost, 3D-Printed, Underactuated, Tendon-Driven Hand With Soft and Adaptive Synergies53
DiPA: Probabilistic Multi-Modal Interactive Prediction for Autonomous Driving53
Tactile Gym 2.0: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Comparing Low-Cost High-Resolution Robot Touch53
CLARA: Classifying and Disambiguating User Commands for Reliable Interactive Robotic Agents52
A Lower Limb Exoskeleton With Rigid and Soft Structure for Loaded Walking Assistance52
A Dynamic Planner for Safe and Predictable Human-Robot Collaboration52
Human-Multirobot Collaborative Mobile Manipulation: The Omnid Mocobots52
Ultrasound-Guided Assistive Robots for Scoliosis Assessment With Optimization-Based Control and Variable Impedance52
Whole-Body Fuzzy Based Impedance Control of a Humanoid Wheeled Robot52
Design an Underactuated Soft Exoskeleton to Sequentially Provide Knee Extension and Ankle Plantarflexion Assistance52
SemanticTopoLoop: Semantic Loop Closure With 3D Topological Graph Based on Quadric-Level Object Map52
Astrobee ISS Free-Flyer Datasets for Space Intra-Vehicular Robot Navigation Research51
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-Training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition With Vision Transformers51
SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks51
VECtor: A Versatile Event-Centric Benchmark for Multi-Sensor SLAM51
Multi-Agent System for Rogue Drone Interception50
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Information50
Priming Robotic Plantarflexor Resistance With Assistance to Improve Ankle Power During Exoskeleton Gait Training50
GPA-Teleoperation: Gaze Enhanced Perception-Aware Safe Assistive Aerial Teleoperation50
Toward Accurate and Robust Unloading Force Rendering via a Series Elastic Actuator-Driven Body Weight Support System50
Detection of Texting While Walking in Occluded Environment Using Variational Autoencoder for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation50
Table of Contents50
Leg-KILO: Robust Kinematic-Inertial-Lidar Odometry for Dynamic Legged Robots50
A Power-Aware Control Strategy for an Elbow Effort-Compensation Device50
Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning49
F1 Hand: A Versatile Fixed-Finger Gripper for Delicate Teleoperation and Autonomous Grasping49
Online and Real-Time Trajectory Generation Method for Unforeseen Events Using a Modified Spline Approach49
MyoPassivity Map: Does Multi-Channel sEMG Correlate With the Energetic Behavior of Upper-Limb Biomechanics During Physical Human-Robot Interaction?49
Attentive Multimodal Fusion for Optical and Scene Flow49
Using Mobile AR for Rapid Feasibility Analysis for Deployment of Robots: A Usability Study With Non-Expert Users49
A Springy Leg and a Double Backflip48
Learning-Based Efficient Phase- Amplitude Modulation and Hybrid Control for MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment48
Rigid-Soft Hybrid Suction Cups for Enhanced Anti-Torque and Energy-Efficient Attachment48
WS-OPE: Weakly Supervised 6-D Object Pose Regression Using Relative Multi-Camera Pose Constraints48
Monocular 360 Depth Estimation via Spherical Fully-Connected CRFs48
Multimodal Active Measurement for Human Mesh Recovery in Close Proximity48
S$^{2}$ Loop: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatio Loop Closure Detector for Resource-Constrained Platforms48
Design and Experimental Validation of a Shock-Absorption Mechanism Inspired From the Frog's Forelimbs48
A Spiny Claws Climbing Robot Based on Self-Sensing Soles48
Experimental Study of the Mechanical Properties of a Spherical Parallel Link Mechanism With Arc Prismatic Pairs47
Learning Policies by Learning Rules47
MIntNet: Rapid Motion Intention Forecasting of Coupled Human-Robot Systems With Simulation-to-Real Autoregressive Neural Networks47
Where are You? Unscented Particle Filter for Single Range Relative Pose Estimation in Unobservable Motion Using UWB and VIO47
Operando Multi-Physical Characterization Using Nanorobotic Manipulation With a Picometer-Scale Positioning Resolution47
Precision Coordinated Control of Gantry Multi-Axis Systems With Coupled Dynamics and Prescribed Performance46
OpenMulti: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Level Multi-Agent Distributed Implicit Mapping46
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Mixing Left and Right-Hand Driving Data in a Hierarchical Framework With LLM Generation46
Multi-View Depth Estimation by Using Adaptive Point Graph to Fuse Single-View Depth Probabilities46
Cooperative Payload Estimation by a Team of Mocobots46
SamPose: Generalizable Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation via Single-View Prompt45
GNN-Based Decentralized Perception in Multi-Robot Systems for Predicting Worker Actions45
Learning Hierarchical Graph-Based Policy for Goal-Reaching in Unknown Environments45
A Synchronous-Optimized and Safety-Improved Framework for Human-Robot Interaction in Robot-Assisted Knee Arthroplasty45
Radar-Based Materials Classification Using Deep Wavelet Scattering Transform: A Comparison of Centimeter vs. Millimeter Wave Units45
A Smooth Orientation Planner for Trajectories in the Cartesian Space45
StROL: Stabilized and Robust Online Learning From Humans44
Load-Carrying Assistance of Articulated Legged Robots Based on Hydrostatic Support44
“Don't Forget to Put the Milk Back!” Dataset for Enabling Embodied Agents to Detect Anomalous Situations44
High-Velocity, Pressure-Driven Eversion for Rapid Vine Robots44
Chance-Constrained Convex MPC for Robust Quadruped Locomotion Under Parametric and Additive Uncertainties44
Continuous Safety Control of Mobile Robots in Cluttered Environments44
Learning Causal Structure Distributions for Robust Planning44
Mixed-Reality Digital Twins: Leveraging the Physical and Virtual Worlds for Hybrid Sim2Real Transition of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Policies44
Controlling Pneumatic Bending Actuator With Gain-Scheduled Feedforward and Physical Reservoir Computing State Estimation44
Task Space Contouring Error Estimation and Precision Iterative Control of Robotic Manipulators43
Equivariant IMU Preintegration with Biases:a Galilean Group Approach43
Observability-Aware Online Multi-Lidar Extrinsic Calibration43
BEVCon: Advancing Bird's Eye View Perception With Contrastive Learning43
Enhancing Indoor Occupancy Prediction via Sparse Query-Based Multi-Level Consistent Knowledge Distillation43
Overworld: Assessing the Geometry of the World for Human-Robot Interaction43
Simulating Complete Points Representations for Single-View 6-DoF Grasp Detection43
Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior43
Aqua-Splat: Physically-Informed Sonar-Camera Gaussian Splatting for Underwater 3D Reconstruction43
Atmospheric Aerosol Diagnostics With UAV-Based Holographic Imaging and Computer Vision43
Vision-Based Markerless Tracking for Continuum Surgical Instruments in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery43
A Global Max-Flow-Based Multi-Resolution Next-Best-View Method for Reconstruction of 3D Unknown Objects43
A Controllable Tensegrity Bistable Gripper With Adjustable Performance and Multimodal Triggering43
Few-Shot Instance Grasping of Novel Objects in Clutter42
Design and Characterization of a 3D-Printed Pneumatically-Driven Bistable Valve With Tunable Characteristics42
Trident: A Multi-Functional Soft Appendage for Underwater Locomotion and Grasping42
Active SLAM With Prior Topo-Metric Graph Starting At Uncertain Position42
A Novel Path Following Method Based on Whole-Body Deviation Evaluation for Hyper-Redundant Robots42
Signage-Aware Exploration in Open World Using Venue Maps42
MonoSG: Monocular 3D Object Detection With Stereo Guidance42
MR-GMMapping: Communication Efficient Multi-Robot Mapping System via Gaussian Mixture Model42
Learning Locomotion for Quadruped Robots via Distributional Ensemble Actor-Critic42
Stochastic Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Skill Acquisition From a Suboptimal Demonstration42
Velocity Obstacle for Polytopic Collision Avoidance for Distributed Multi-Robot Systems41
A Peristaltic Soft, Wearable Robot for Compression Therapy and Massage41
EvTTC: An Event Camera Dataset for Time-to-Collision Estimation41
Robust Stabilization of Elastic Joint Robots by ESP and PID Control: Theory and Experiments41
Kernel-Based Dynamic Ensemble Technique for Remaining Useful Life Prediction41
Torque-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-and-Robot Agnostic Learning on Bipedal Robots Using Sim-to-Real Transfer41
A Variable-Stiffness Robotic Link Based on Rotating-Rectangle Auxetic Structures for Safe Human-Robot Interaction41
ARTEMIS: Autoregressive End-to-End Trajectory Planning With Mixture of Experts for Autonomous Driving41
Design of a Wearable Mechanism With Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-Based Artificial Muscle for Assisting With Shoulder Abduction41
Capacity-Aware Planning and Scheduling in Budget-Constrained Multi-Agent MDPs: A Meta-RL Approach41
Nezha-H: An HAUV for Aerial and Underwater Observation and Sampling41
Modeling and Implementation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot41
Two-Stream Based Multi-Stage Hybrid Decoder for Self-Supervised Multi-Frame Monocular Depth40
Learning Interaction Regions and Motion Trajectories Simultaneously From Egocentric Demonstration Videos40
A Convex Formulation of Frictional Contact Between Rigid and Deformable Bodies40
Design and Kinematic Modeling of a Pneumatic Soft Bellow-Type Wrist40
Vision-and-Force-Based Compliance Control for a Posterior Segment Ophthalmic Surgical Robot40
GRAM: Generalization in Deep RL With a Robust Adaptation Module40
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