| IJRR | 2026 | 3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements | Chenyang Liang; Liangming Chen; Baoyi Cui; Jie Mei | Inter-robot relative localization (including positions and orientations) is necessary for multi-robot systems to execute collaborative tasks. Realizing relative localization by lev… | 1.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251363276 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251363276 | 552-582 | journals/ijrr/LiangCCM26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control | Xu Tang; Jixiang Yang; Han Ding | Robotic grinding relies on precise force control to ensure material removal precision and surface quality, particularly in thin-walled workpieces with varying stiffness. This paper… | 6.0 | Actuator; Stiffness; Control engineering; Grinding; Control theory (sociology) | 10.1177/02783649251347661 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251347661 | 259-284 | journals/ijrr/TangYD26 | https://openalex.org/W4411582533 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot | Hitesh Bhardwaj; Luke Soe Thura Win; Shane Kyi Hla Win; Xinyu Cai; Shaohui Foong | This paper introduces a novel robot designed to exhibit two distinct modes of mobility: rotational aerial flight and terrestrial locomotion. This versatile robot comprises a sturdy… | 2.0 | Actuator; Robot; Atom (system on chip); Development (topology); Control engineering | 10.1177/02783649251344968 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251344968 | 80-99 | journals/ijrr/BhardwajWWCF26 | https://openalex.org/W4411134505 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | An eight-neuron network for quadruped locomotion with hip-knee joint control | Yide Liu; Xiyan Liu; Dongqi Wang; Wei Yang; Shaoxing Qu | The gait generator, which is capable of producing rhythmic signals for coordinating multiple joints, is an essential component in the quadruped robot locomotion control framework.… | 0.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251364286 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251364286 | 602-627 | journals/ijrr/LiuLWYQ26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots | Anup Teejo Mathew; Frédéric Boyer; Vincent Lebastard; Federico Renda | Algorithms that use derivatives of governing equations have accelerated rigid robot simulations and improved their accuracy, enabling the modeling of complex, real-world capabiliti… | 5.0 | Robot; Soft robotics; Computer science; Strain (injury); Control theory (sociology) | 10.1177/02783649251346209 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251346209 | 128-158 | journals/ijrr/MathewBLR26 | https://openalex.org/W4411735231 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Configuration identification of on-demand variable stiffness strain-limiting layers in zig-zag soft pneumatic actuators using deep learning methods | Palpolage Don Shehan Hiroshan Gunawardane; Duhyeon Lee; Phoebe Cheung; Hao Zhou; Gürsel Alici; Mu Chiao | Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) typically offer a fixed trajectory, resulting in one specific tip motion for a given range of pressure. When multiple trajectories are needed, these… | 5.0 | Medicine; Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251364287 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251364287 | 628-644 | journals/ijrr/GunawardaneLCZAC26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Design of LIGHTDOG: A high payload-to-weight, hose-less hydraulic quadrupedal robot | Seunghoon Shin; Seungwoo Hong; Min-Su Kim; Jun-Ho Oh; Hae-Won Park | This paper presents LIGHTDOG, a torque-controlled, hydraulically-actuated quadrupedal robot designed for a high power-to-weight ratio and substantial payload capabilities. Hydrauli… | 1.0 | Payload (computing); Robot; Quadrupedalism; Engineering; Computer science | 10.1177/02783649251349225 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251349225 | 285-307 | journals/ijrr/ShinHKOP26 | https://openalex.org/W4411625853 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Domains as objectives: Domain-uncertainty-aware policy optimization through explicit multi-domain convex coverage set learning | Wendyam Eric Lionel Ilboudo; Taisuke Kobayashi; Takamitsu Matsubara | Uncertainty is inherent in real-world robotics problems, and any control framework must address it to succeed in practical applications. Reinforcement Learning is no different, and… | 0.0 | Domain (mathematical analysis); Set (abstract data type); Computer science; Mathematical optimization; Regular polygon | 10.1177/02783649251358844 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251358844 | 397-451 | journals/ijrr/IlboudoKM26 | https://openalex.org/W4413361989 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Dynamic wind-up locomotion enabled by embodied intelligence | Chang Liu; Mark M. Plecnik | Repetitive subtasks of locomotion are offloaded from a conventional computer-actuator-sensor set-up to automatic mechanical processes. The subtasks considered are: (1) when out-of-… | 1.0 | Embodied cognition; Computer science; Engineering; Human–computer interaction; Control engineering | 10.1177/02783649251360814 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251360814 | 501-521 | journals/ijrr/LiuP26 | https://openalex.org/W4413841627 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Exciting families of passive gaits in an elastic quadruped via natural motion manifold control | Davide Calzolari; Cosimo Della Santina; Alin Albu-Schäffer | Motivated by the need for efficiency and robustness in repetitive robotic tasks such as locomotion, this study introduces the concept of Natural Motion Manifolds (NMMs) and present… | 3.0 | Motion (physics); Manifold (fluid mechanics); Control theory (sociology); Natural (archaeology); Control (management) | 10.1177/02783649251347305 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251347305 | 233-258 | journals/ijrr/CalzolariSA26 | https://openalex.org/W4411655366 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions | Hadi Beik-Mohammadi; Søren Hauberg; Georgios Arvanitidis; Gerhard Neumann; Leonel Rozo | Stability guarantees are crucial when ensuring that a fully autonomous robot does not take undesirable or potentially harmful actions. We recently proposed the Neural Contractive D… | 1.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251366326 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251366326 | 714-745 | journals/ijrr/BeikMohammadiHANR26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim | Elia Bonetto; Chenghao Xu; Aamir Ahmad | Photorealistic synthetic data and novel rendering techniques significantly advanced computer vision research. However, datasets focused on computer vision applications cannot be ea… | 11.0 | Robotics; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Human–computer interaction; Robot | 10.1177/02783649251346211 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251346211 | 204-232 | journals/ijrr/BonettoXA26 | https://openalex.org/W4411616910 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Heterogeneous LiDAR dataset for benchmarking robust localization in diverse degenerate scenarios | Zhiqiang Chen; Yuhua Qi; Dapeng Feng; Xuebin Zhuang; Hongbo Chen; Xiangcheng Hu; Jin Wu; Kelin Peng; Peng Lu | The ability to estimate pose and generate maps using 3D LiDAR significantly enhances robotic system autonomy. However, existing open-source datasets lack representation of geometri… | 36.0 | Benchmarking; Lidar; Computer science; Artificial intelligence; Machine learning | 10.1177/02783649251344967 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251344967 | 6-22 | journals/ijrr/ChenQFZCHWPL26 | https://openalex.org/W4411136809 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations | Christoph Willibald; Dongheui Lee | Multi-step manipulation tasks where robots interact with their environment and must apply process forces based on the perceived situation remain challenging to learn and prone to e… | 5.0 | Computer science; Anomaly detection; Artificial intelligence; Task (project management); Cluster analysis | 10.1177/02783649251352112 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251352112 | 369-396 | journals/ijrr/WillibaldL26 | https://openalex.org/W7110322758 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning | Francesco Tassi; Jianzhuang Zhao; Gustavo J. G. Lahr; Luna Gava; Marco Monforte; Arren Glover; Chiara Bartolozzi; Arash Ajoudani | Robotic catching of flying objects typically generates high-impact forces that might lead to task failure and potential hardware damages. This is accentuated when the object mass t… | 3.0 | Robot; Computer science; Quadratic programming; Task (project management); Control theory (sociology) | 10.1177/02783649251345851 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251345851 | 100-127 | journals/ijrr/TassiZLGMGBA26 | https://openalex.org/W4411467075 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Inverse dynamics trajectory optimization for contact-implicit model predictive control | Vince Kurtz; Alejandro Castro; Aykut Özgün Önol; Hai Lin | Robots must make and break contact with the environment to perform useful tasks, but planning and control through contact remains a formidable challenge. In this work, we achieve r… | 35.0 | Inverse dynamics; Trajectory; Dynamics (music); Model predictive control; Control theory (sociology) | 10.1177/02783649251344635 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251344635 | 23-40 | journals/ijrr/KurtzCOL26 | https://openalex.org/W4410879364 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks | Haoyu Zhang; Long Cheng; Zeyu Liu; Yu Zhang | This paper presents a novel framework for learning orbitally stable nonlinear dynamical systems from demonstrations for rhythmic tasks in robotics. The core innovation is a reprodu… | 1.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251369026 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251369026 | 775-800 | journals/ijrr/ZhangCLZ26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot-environment interaction | Zhiqiang Tang; Peiyi Wang; Wenci Xin; Cecilia Laschi | Safe and efficient robot–environment interaction is a critical yet challenging problem, particularly in the presence of uncertainty and unforeseen changes. Soft robotics, known for… | 3.0 | Robot manipulator; Robot; Control (management); Artificial intelligence; Control engineering | 10.1177/02783649251360254 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251360254 | 452-476 | journals/ijrr/TangWXL26 | https://openalex.org/W4412758114 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots | Yuxiao Tu; Guanqi Liang; Di Wu; Xinzhuo Li; Tin Lun Lam | Modular robotic systems are multi-robot systems comprising numerous repeated modules and can transform into different configurations. Matching system configurations to a library en… | 3.0 | Control reconfiguration; Modular design; Self-reconfiguring modular robot; Robot; Autonomy | 10.1177/02783649251360360 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251360360 | 477-500 | journals/ijrr/TuLWLL26 | https://openalex.org/W4412886248 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | MOANA: Multi-radar dataset for maritime odometry and autonomous navigation application | Hyesu Jang; Wooseong Yang; Hanguen Kim; Dongje Lee; Yongjin Kim; Jinbum Park; Minsoo Jeon; Jaeseong Koh; Yejin Kang; Minwoo Jung; Sangwoo Jung; Ayoung Kim | Maritime environmental sensing requires overcoming challenges from complex conditions such as harsh weather, platform perturbations, large dynamic objects, and the requirement for… | 6.0 | Odometry; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Radar; Computer vision | 10.1177/02783649251354897 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251354897 | 193-203 | journals/ijrr/JangYKLKPJKKJJK26 | https://openalex.org/W4412119085 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Model-based control of proprioceptive origami actuators for pneumatic manipulation | Taehwa Hong; Jinkyu Yang; Yong-Lae Park | This paper introduces a novel approach for designing soft robotic manipulators using origami cylinder modules (OCMs) as building blocks. An OCM is defined as a pneumatically actuat… | 1.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251366323 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251366323 | 670-692 | journals/ijrr/HongYP26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning | Gilhyun Ryou; Geoffrey Wang; Sertac Karaman | High-speed online trajectory planning for UAVs poses a significant challenge due to the need for precise modeling of complex dynamics while also being constrained by computational… | 4.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251364393 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251364393 | 645-669 | journals/ijrr/RyouWK26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping | Jiahui Fu; Yilun Du; Kurran Singh; Joshua B. Tenenbaum; John J. Leonard | We present NeuSE, a novel Neural SE(3)-Equivariant Embedding for objects, and illustrate how it supports object-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for consistent sp… | 0.0 | Equivariant map; Term (time); Embedding; Object (grammar); Artificial intelligence | 10.1177/02783649251355966 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251355966 | 159-189 | journals/ijrr/FuDSTL26 | https://openalex.org/W4413128117 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | On the learning-based control of continuum robots with provable robustness, efficiency, and generalizability | Peng Yu; Ning Tan | Recent years have witnessed the remarkable advancements in Koopman-operator-based data-driven methods for continuum robot control. However, there is currently a paucity of both the… | 3.0 | Generalizability theory; Robustness (evolution); Robot; Artificial intelligence; Computer science | 10.1177/02783649251351046 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251351046 | 308-327 | journals/ijrr/YuT26 | https://openalex.org/W4411624905 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | On-body textile hysteresis estimation for personalized physical human-robot interaction | Connor M. McCann; James Arnold; Carolin Lehmacher; Katia Bertoldi; Conor J. Walsh | Nearly all soft wearable robots rely on textiles to distribute actuation forces to the human body; however, the mechanical hysteresis of these materials significantly complicates d… | 1.0 | Textile; Robot; Computer science; Artificial intelligence; Human–computer interaction | 10.1177/02783649251358840 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251358840 | 352-365 | journals/ijrr/McCannALBW26 | https://openalex.org/W4412587399 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Recursive model-agnostic inverse dynamics of serial soft-rigid robots | Pietro Pustina; Cosimo Della Santina; Alessandro De Luca | Robotics is shifting from rigid, articulated systems to more sophisticated and heterogeneous mechanical structures. Soft robots, for example, have continuously deformable elements… | 0.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251350716 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251350716 | 746-774 | journals/ijrr/PustinaSL26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Robotic redundancy via arm angle self-adaptation through nullspace resolution: Offset poses a challenge | Boyu Ma; Zongwu Xie; Zainan Jiang; Yang Liu; Yiming Ji; Baoshi Cao; Zhengpu Wang; Hong Liu | Seven-degree-of-freedom offset manipulators are typically large-scale space robot systems featuring two long links. The offsets at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints extend the… | 4.0 | Computer Science | 10.1177/02783649251371735 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251371735 | 801-836 | journals/ijrr/MaXJLJCWL26 | — | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation | Teng Xue; Amirreza Razmjoo; Suhan Shetty; Sylvain Calinon | Contact-rich manipulation plays an important role in daily human activities. However, uncertain physical parameters often pose significant challenges for both planning and control.… | 2.0 | Computer science; Control engineering; Adaptation (eye); Control theory (sociology); Artificial intelligence | 10.1177/02783649251344638 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251344638 | 41-59 | journals/ijrr/XueRSC26 | https://openalex.org/W4411230144 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | Role specialization enables superior task performance by human dyads than individuals | Asuka Takai; Qiushi Fu; Yuzuru Doibata; Giuseppe Lisi; Toshiki Tsuchiya; Keivan Mojtahedi; Toshinori Yoshioka; Mitsuo Kawato; Jun Morimoto; Marco Santello | It is generally accepted that collaboration yields better performance than when the same task is performed by individuals operating alone. Is collaboration always superior to indiv… | 1.0 | Task (project management); Cognitive psychology; Computer science; Psychology; Human–computer interaction | 10.1177/02783649251363274 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251363274 | 522-537 | journals/ijrr/TakaiFDLTMYKMS26 | https://openalex.org/W4413615422 | IJRR |
| IJRR | 2026 | SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments | Diego Martinez-Baselga; Oscar de Groot; Luzia Knödler; Luis Riazuelo; Javier Alonso-Mora; Luis Montano | Navigating mobile robots in social environments remains a challenging task due to the intricacies of human-robot interactions. Most of the motion planners designed for crowded and… | 6.0 | Identification (biology); Human–computer interaction; Computer science; Artificial intelligence; Communication | 10.1177/02783649251344639 | https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251344639 | 60-79 | journals/ijrr/MartinezBaselgaGKRAM26 | https://openalex.org/W4411340081 | IJRR |