Topic · Robotic Locomotion and Control
Most cited papers in Robotic Locomotion and Control
What are the most cited papers in Robotic Locomotion and Control?
The most cited paper in Robotic Locomotion and Control is "Passive Dynamic Walking" (Tad McGeer, 1990), with 3,392 citations. Next come "Legged Robots That Balance" (2,755) and "Minimum snap trajectory generation and control for quadrotors" (2,396).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 562 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Passive Dynamic Walking Tad McGeer · The International Journal of Robotics Research | Apr 1990 | 3,392 |
| 2 | Legged Robots That Balance Marc H. Raibert, Ernest R. Tello · IEEE Expert | Nov 1986 | 2,755 |
| 3 | Minimum snap trajectory generation and control for quadrotors Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar | May 2011 | 2,396 |
| 4 | The vector field histogram-fast obstacle avoidance for mobile robots J. Borenstein, Yoram Koren · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Jun 1991 | 2,303 |
| 5 | Series elastic actuators Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson | 19 Nov 2002 | 2,220 |
| 6 | Biped walking pattern generation by using preview control of zero-moment point Shuuji Kajita, Fumio Kanehiro, Kenji Kaneko et al. | Mar 2004 | 2,118 |
| 7 | ZERO-MOMENT POINT — THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF ITS LIFE MIOMIR K. VUKOBRATOVIC, Branislav Borovać · International Journal of Humanoid Robotics | Mar 2004 | 2,045 |
| 8 | The development of Honda humanoid robot Kazuo Hirai, Masato Hirose, Yuji Haikawa et al. | 27 Nov 2002 | 1,926 |
| 9 | Efficient Bipedal Robots Based on Passive-Dynamic Walkers Steven H. Collins, Andy L. Ruina, Russ Tedrake et al. · Science | 17 Feb 2005 | 1,894 |
| 10 | Central pattern generators for locomotion control in animals and robots: A review Auke Jan Ijspeert · Neural Networks | May 2008 | 1,887 |
| 11 | High-Dimensional Continuous Control Using Generalized Advantage Estimation John Schulman, Philipp Moritz, Sergey Levine et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 8 Jun 2015 | 1,745 |
| 12 | How Animals Move: An Integrative View Michael H. Dickinson, Claire T. Farley, Robert J. Full et al. · Science | 7 Apr 2000 | 1,668 |
| 13 | Modeling and Control of Elastic Joint Robots Mark W. Spong · Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control | Dec 1987 | 1,616 |
| 14 | Learning agile and dynamic motor skills for legged robots Jemin Hwangbo, Joonho Lee, Alexey Dosovitskiy et al. · Science Robotics | 16 Jan 2019 | 1,509 |
| 15 | BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Quadruped Robot Marc H. Raibert, Kevin Blankespoor, Gabriel M. Nelson et al. · IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2008 | 1,504 |
| 16 | Software techniques for two- and three-dimensional kinematic measurements of biological and biomimetic systems Tyson L. Hedrick · Bioinspiration & Biomimetics | Jul 2008 | 1,401 |
| 17 | RHex: A Simple and Highly Mobile Hexapod Robot Uluc̣ Saranlı, M. Buehler, Daniel E. Koditschek · The International Journal of Robotics Research | Jul 2001 | 1,331 |
| 18 | Real-time obstacle avoidance for fast mobile robots J. Borenstein, Yoram Koren · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics | Sep 1989 | 1,261 |
| 19 | Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, Fumiya Iida · Science | 16 Nov 2007 | 1,244 |
| 20 | Structural properties and classification of kinematic and dynamic models of wheeled mobile robots G. Campion, Georges L. Bastin, Brigitte d’Andréa-Novel · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | 1996 | 1,190 |
| 21 | Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot Kevin Y. Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon, Sawyer B. Fuller et al. · Science | 2 May 2013 | 1,142 |
| 22 | Templates and anchors: neuromechanical hypotheses of legged locomotion on land Robert J. Full, D. E. Koditschek · Journal of Experimental Biology | Dec 1999 | 1,139 |
| 23 | Capture Point: A Step toward Humanoid Push Recovery Jerry E. Pratt, John Carff, S. Drakunov et al. | Dec 2006 | 1,130 |
| 24 | The mechanics of running: How does stiffness couple with speed? Thomas A. McMahon, George C. Cheng · Journal of Biomechanics | 1990 | 1,119 |
| 25 | Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain Joonho Lee, Jemin Hwangbo, Lorenz Wellhausen et al. · Science Robotics | 21 Oct 2020 | 1,112 |
| 26 | The Simplest Walking Model: Stability, Complexity, and Scaling Mariano Matilla García, Anindya Chatterjee, Andy L. Ruina et al. · Journal of Biomechanical Engineering | Apr 1998 | 1,104 |
| 27 | Control of chained systems application to path following and time-varying point-stabilization of mobile robots Claude Samson · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 1995 | 1,083 |
| 28 | The 3D linear inverted pendulum mode: a simple modeling for a biped walking pattern generation Shuuji Kajita, Fumio Kanehiro, Kenji Kaneko et al. | 13 Nov 2002 | 1,065 |
| 29 | Self-organized control of bipedal locomotion by neural oscillators in unpredictable environment Gentaro Taga, Yoko Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu · Biological Cybernetics | Jul 1991 | 1,039 |
| 30 | Analysis of musculoskeletal systems in the AnyBody Modeling System Michael Damsgaard, John O Rasmussen, Søren Tørholm Christensen et al. · Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory | 25 Oct 2006 | 1,035 |
| 31 | Active control of lateral balance in human walking Catherine E. Bauby, Arthur D. Kuo · Journal of Biomechanics | Nov 2000 | 1,010 |
| 32 | Asymptotically stable walking for biped robots: analysis via systems with impulse effects J.W. Grizzle, Gabriel Abba, Franck Plestan · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 2001 | 1,004 |
| 33 | Robots that can adapt like animals Antoine Cully, Jeff Clune, Danesh Tarapore et al. · Nature | 26 May 2015 | 977 |
| 34 | Compliant leg behaviour explains basic dynamics of walking and running Hartmut Geyer, André Seyfarth, Reinhard Blickhan · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 11 Aug 2006 | 958 |
| 35 | Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center Jennifer L. Casper, Robin Roberson Murphy · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) | 22 May 2003 | 943 |
| 36 | The First Takeoff of a Biologically Inspired At-Scale Robotic Insect Robert J. Wood · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Apr 2008 | 918 |
| 37 | ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud et al. | Oct 2016 | 899 |
| 38 | Anytime Motion Planning using the RRT* Sertaç Karaman, Matthew R. Walter, Alejandro Colsa Perez et al. | May 2011 | 897 |
| 39 | Motion planning with sequential convex optimization and convex collision checking John Schulman, Yan Duan, Jonathan B. Ho et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 11 Jun 2014 | 884 |
| 40 | Hybrid zero dynamics of planar biped walkers Eric R. Westervelt, Jessy W. Grizzle, Daniel E. Koditschek · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | 2003 | 875 |
| 41 | Reinforcement learning of motor skills with policy gradients Jan Peters, Stefan Schaal · Neural Networks | 27 Apr 2008 | 872 |
| 42 | Planning walking patterns for a biped robot Qiang Huang, Kazuhito Yokoi, Shuuji Kajita et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Jun 2001 | 860 |
| 43 | Movement imitation with nonlinear dynamical systems in humanoid robots Auke Jan Ijspeert, Jun Nakanishi, Stefan Schaal | 25 Jun 2003 | 855 |
| 44 | Optimization-based locomotion planning, estimation, and control design for the atlas humanoid robot Scott Kuindersma, Robin Deits, Maurice F. Fallon et al. · Autonomous Robots | 29 Jul 2015 | 852 |
| 45 | Real-Time Motion Planning for Agile Autonomous Vehicles Emilio Frazzoli, Munther A. Dahleh, Éric Féron · Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics | 2002 | 832 |
| 46 | Virtual-to-real deep reinforcement learning: Continuous control of mobile robots for mapless navigation Lei Tai, Giuseppe Paolo, Ming Liu | Sep 2017 | 826 |
| 47 | Learning robust perceptive locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild Takahiro Miki, Joonho Lee, Jemin Hwangbo et al. · Science Robotics | 19 Jan 2022 | 816 |
| 48 | Adaptive tracking control of a nonholonomic mobile robot Takanori Fukao, Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Namihei ADACHI · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | 2000 | 807 |
| 49 | Robot Collisions: A Survey on Detection, Isolation, and Identification Sami Haddadin, Alessandro De Luca, Alin Albu‐Schäffer · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 5 Oct 2017 | 802 |
| 50 | WMR control via dynamic feedback linearization: design, implementation, and experimental validation Giuseppe Oriolo, Alessandro De Luca, Marilena Vendittelli · IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology | Nov 2002 | 795 |
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