What is this?
This page collects information about citation count, citation ranking of each paper of the major robotics conference (ICRA,IROS,RSS). Moreover, it calculates a quantification of impact of each conference by computing the number of papers with more than five citations.
Motivation
Being an ardent paper reader, I always wondered if I missed a paper or two in the last robotics conference. In our field, keeping track of what happens in the wide spectrum of robotics is pretty hard. Too many times I have asked myself if that related work section is updated with all the latest work. Do I really know all the high impact papers of that field?
Well, I decided to take matters into my own hands and tried to give an analytic answer to these questions.
Open data
All the data crawled and used for this project is publicly available in a confortable JSON format [ >> ]
Disclaimer
Even though I did my best for quality control, I am in no way responsible for the correctness of the results and the information gathered. This is neither an official project nor a professional product. I built it during my free time. My intentions are just to provide a useful tool to the community.
Data is parsed from official proceedings, citations from Google Scholar.
This page is automatically generated each six months. Last update: Jul 2014.
Conferences considered
ICRA: ICRA13 ICRA12 ICRA11 ICRA09IROS: IROS13 IROS12 IROS11 IROS10 IROS09
RSS: RSS13 RSS12 RSS11 RSS10 RSS09 RSS08 RSS07 RSS06 RSS05
Statistics for ICRA
▸ ICRA13 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 879 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 14.90 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 44 | Robust Real-Time Visual Odometry for Dense RGB-D Mapping
Thomas Whelan · Hordur Johannsson · Michael Kaess · John Leonard · John McDonald |
| 24 | An Open Source and Open Hardware Embedded Metric Optical Flow CMOS Camera for Indoor and Outdoor Applications
Dominik Honegger · Lorenz Meier · Petri Tanskanen · Marc Pollefeys |
| 22 | Temporally Scalable Visual SLAM Using a Reduced Pose Graph
Hordur Johannsson · Michael Kaess · Maurice Fallon · John Leonard |
| 22 | Robust Odometry Estimation for RGB-D Cameras
Christian Kerl · Jrgen Sturm · Daniel Cremers |
| 17 | Learning Monocular Reactive UAV Control in Cluttered Natural Environments
Stephane Ross · Narek Melik-Barkhudarov · Kumar Shaurya Shankar · Andreas Wendel · Debadeepta Dey · James Bagnell · Martial Hebert |
▸ ICRA12 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 836 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 41.15 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 130 | An Evaluation of the RGB-D SLAM System
Felix Endres · Juergen Michael Hess · Nikolas Engelhard · Jrgen Sturm · Daniel Cremers · Wolfram Burgard |
| 84 | Unstructured Human Activity Detection from RGBD Images
Jaeyong Sung · Colin Ponce · Bart Selman · Ashutosh Saxena |
| 66 | Real-Time Onboard Visual-Inertial State Estimation and Self-Calibration of MAVs in Unknown Environments
Stephan Weiss · Markus W. Achtelik · Simon Lynen · Margarita Chli · Roland Siegwart |
| 53 | Detection-Based Object Labeling in 3D Scenes
Kevin Lai · Liefeng Bo · Xiaofeng Ren · Dieter Fox |
| 52 | Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors
Michael Rubenstein · Christian Ahler · Radhika Nagpal |
▸ ICRA11 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 985 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 50.76 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 263 | G 2 o: A General Framework for Graph Optimization
Rainer Kuemmerle · Giorgio Grisetti · Hauke Strasdat · Kurt Konolige · Wolfram Burgard |
| 134 | Minimum Snap Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors
Daniel Mellinger · Vijay Kumar |
| 124 | Autonomous Multi-Floor Indoor Navigation with a Computationally Constrained MAV
Shaojie Shen · Nathan Michael · Vijay Kumar |
| 105 | The DLR Hand Arm System
Markus Grebenstein · Alin Albu-Schffer · Thomas Bahls · Maxime Chalon · Oliver Eiberger · Werner Friedl · Robin Gruber · Sami Haddadin · Ulrich Hagn · Robert Haslinger · Hannes Hoeppner · Stefan Joerg · Mathias Nickl · Alexander Nothhelfer · Florian Petit · Joseph Reill · Nikolaus Seitz · Thomas Wimboeck · Sebastian Wolf · Tilo Wsthoff · Gerd Hirzinger |
| 92 | Sparse Distance Learning for Object Recognition Combining RGB and Depth Information
Kevin Lai · Liefeng Bo · Xiaofeng Ren · Dieter Fox |
▸ ICRA09 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 709 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 67.28 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 303 | Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D Registration
Radu Bogdan Rusu · Nico Blodow · Michael Beetz |
| 155 | Mechatronic Design of NAO Humanoid
David Gouaillier · Vincent Hugel · Pierre Blazevic · Chris Kilner · Jrme Monceaux · Pascal Lafourcade · Brice Marnier · Julien Serre · Bruno Maisonnier |
| 151 | Learning and Generalization of Motor Skills by Learning from Demonstration
Peter Pastor · Heiko Hoffmann · Tamim Asfour · Stefan Schaal |
| 145 | CHOMP: Gradient Optimization Techniques for Efficient Motion Planning
Nathan Ratliff · Matthew Zucker · James Bagnell · Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 142 | Object Recognition and Full Pose Registration from a Single Image for Robotic Manipulation
Alvaro Collet · Dmitry Berenson · Siddhartha Srinivasa · Dave Ferguson |
Statistics for IROS
▸ IROS13 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 919 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 2.83 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 11 | Dense Visual SLAM for RGB-D Cameras
Christian Kerl · Jrgen Sturm · Daniel Cremers |
| 10 | Deformation-Based Loop Closure for Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM
Thomas Whelan · Michael Kaess · John Leonard · John McDonald |
| 9 | HRI in the Sky: Creating and Commanding Teams of UAVs with a Vision-Mediated Gestural Interface
Valiallah (Mani) Monajjemi · Jens Wawerla · Richard Vaughan · Greg Mori |
| 9 | Stereo Vision Based Indoor/outdoor Navigation for Flying Robots
Korbinian Schmid · Teodor Tomic · Felix Ruess · Heiko Hirschmller · Michael Suppa |
| 8 | CamOdoCal: Automatic Intrinsic and Extrinsic Calibration of a Rig with Multiple Generic Cameras and Odometry
Lionel Heng · Bo Li · Marc Pollefeys |
▸ IROS12 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 853 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 25.21 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 99 | A Benchmark for the Evaluation of RGB-D SLAM Systems
Jrgen Sturm · Nikolas Engelhard · Felix Endres · Wolfram Burgard · Daniel Cremers |
| 50 | Camera-Based Navigation of a Low-Cost Quadrocopter
Jakob Engel · Jrgen Sturm · Daniel Cremers |
| 45 | Vision-Based Autonomous Mapping and Exploration Using a Quadrotor MAV
Friedrich Fraundorfer · Lionel Heng · Dominik Honegger · Gim Hee Lee · Lorenz Meier · Petri Tanskanen · Marc Pollefeys |
| 38 | Synthesis and Stabilization of Complex Behaviors through Online Trajectory Optimization
Yuval Tassa · Tom Erez · Emanuel Todorov |
| 34 | Switchable Constraints for Robust Pose Graph SLAM
Niko Snderhauf · Peter Protzel |
▸ IROS11 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 787 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 38.75 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 90 | People Detection in RGB-D Data
Luciano Spinello · Kai Oliver Arras |
| 68 | Depth Kernel Descriptors for Object Recognition
Liefeng Bo · Xiaofeng Ren · Dieter Fox |
| 46 | 4-Dimensional Local Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Activity Recognition
Hao Zhang · Lynne Parker |
| 41 | Quadrocopter Ball Juggling
Mark Wilfried Mller · Sergei Lupashin · Raffaello D'Andrea |
| 33 | Progress in Developing a Socially Assistive Mobile Home Robot Companion for the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Horst-Michael Gross · Christof Schroeter · Steffen Mueller · Michael Volkhardt · Erik Einhorn · Andreas Bley · Christian Martin · Matthias Merten · Tim Langner |
▸ IROS10 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 992 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 43.75 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 188 | Fast 3D Recognition and Pose Using the Viewpoint Feature Histogram
Radu Bogdan Rusu · Gary Bradski · Thibaux Romain · john hsu |
| 90 | Contact-Reactive Grasping of Objects with Partial Shape Information
Kaijen Hsiao · Sachin Chitta · Matei Ciocarlie · Edward Gil Jones |
| 81 | LCM: Lightweight Communications and Marshalling
Albert S. Huang · Edwin Olson · David C. Moore |
| 80 | Efficient Sparse Pose Adjustment for 2D Mapping
Kurt Konolige · Giorgio Grisetti · Benson Limketkai · Wolfram Burgard · Rainer Kuemmerle · Regis Vincent |
| 77 | An Experimental Evaluation of a Novel Minimum-Jerk Cartesian Controller for Humanoid Robots
Ugo Pattacini · Francesco Nori · Lorenzo Natale · Giorgio Metta · Giulio Sandini |
▸ IROS09 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 949 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 50.47 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 92 | DASH: A Dynamic 16g Hexapedal Robot
Paul Birkmeyer · Kevin Peterson · Ronald Fearing |
| 91 | Planning-Based Prediction for Pedestrians
Brian Ziebart · Nathan Ratliff · Garratt Gallagher · Christoph Mertz · Kevin M Peterson · James Bagnell · martial hebert · Anind Dey · Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 85 | Influences on Proxemic Behaviors in Human-Robot Interaction
Leila Takayama · Caroline Pantofaru |
| 78 | Close-Range Scene Segmentation and Reconstruction of 3D Point Cloud Maps for Mobile Manipulation in Domestic Environments
Radu Bogdan Rusu · Nico Blodow · Zoltan-Csaba Marton · Michael Beetz |
| 78 | 1-Point RANSAC for EKF-Based Structure from Motion
Javier Civera · Oscar G. Grasa · Andrew J Davison · J.M.M Montiel |
Statistics for RSS
▸ RSS13 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 55 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 30.91 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 30 | Anticipating Human Activities using Object Affordances for Reactive Robotic Response
Hema Koppula · Ashutosh Saxena |
| 16 | Real-Time Camera Tracking and 3D Reconstruction Using Signed Distance Functions
Erik Bylow · Jrgen Sturm · Christian Kerl · Fredrik Kahl · Daniel Cremers |
| 13 | Deep Learning for Detecting Robotic Grasps
Ian Lenz · Honglak Lee · Ashutosh Saxena |
| 13 | Incremental Semantically Grounded Learning from Demonstration
Scott Niekum · Sachin Chitta · Andrew Barto · Bhaskara Marthi · Sarah Osentoski |
| 12 | Infinite Latent Conditional Random Fields for Modeling Environments through Humans
Yun Jiang · Ashutosh Saxena |
▸ RSS12 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 60 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 66.67 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 45 | Towards A Swarm of Agile Micro Quadrotors
Aleksandr Kushleyev · Vijay Kumar · Daniel Mellinger |
| 38 | Inference on networks of mixtures for robust robot mapping
Edwin Olson · Pratik Agarwal |
| 23 | Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation
Anca Dragan · Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 23 | On Stochastic Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by Approximate Inference
Konrad Rawlik · Marc Toussaint · Sethu Vijayakumar |
| 23 | Optimization of Temporal Dynamics for Adaptive Human-Robot Interaction in Assembly Manufacturing
Ronald Wilcox · Stefanos Nikolaidis · Julie Shah |
▸ RSS11 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 45 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 82.22 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 53 | A Framework for Push-Grasping in Clutter
Mehmet Dogar · Siddhartha Srinivasa |
| 42 | Learning to Control a Low-Cost Manipulator using Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Marc Deisenroth · Carl Rasmussen · Dieter Fox |
| 30 | TERMES: An Autonomous Robotic System for Three-Dimensional Collective Construction
Kirstin Petersen · Radhika Nagpal · Justin Werfel |
| 26 | From Caging to Grasping
Alberto Rodriguez · Matt Mason · Steve Ferry |
| 23 | A Linear Approximation for Graph-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Luca Carlone · Rosario Aragues · Jose Castellanos · Basilio Bona |
▸ RSS10 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 40 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 72.50 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 142 | Scale Drift-Aware Large Scale Monocular SLAM
H. Strasdat · J. M. M. Montiel · A. Davison |
| 123 | Incremental Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning
S. Karaman · E. Frazzoli |
| 97 | LQG-MP: Optimized Path Planning for Robots with Motion Uncertainty and Imperfect State Information
J. V. D. Berg · P. Abbeel · K. Goldberg |
| 78 | On the Role of Hand Synergies in the Optimal Choice of Grasping Forces
M. Gabiccini · A. Bicchi |
| 77 | Belief space planning assuming maximum likelihood observations
R. Platt · R. Tedrake · L. Kaelbling · T. Lozano-Perez |
▸ RSS09 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 39 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 76.92 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 170 | Generalized-ICP
A. Segal · D. Haehnel · S. Thrun |
| 165 | Cooperative manipulation and transportation with aerial robots
N. Michael · J. Fink · V. Kumar |
| 145 | View-based maps
K. Konolige · J. Bowman · J. D. Chen · P. Mihelich · M. Calonder · V. Lepetit · P. Fua |
| 87 | Adaptive relative bundle adjustment
G. Sibley · C. Mei · I. Reid · P. Newman |
| 78 | LQR-trees: Feedback motion planning on sparse randomized trees
R. Tedrake |
▸ RSS08 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 40 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 70.00 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 279 | SARSOP: Efficient Point-Based POMDP Planning by Approximating Optimally Reachable Belief Spaces
Hanna Kurniawati · David Hsu · Wee Sun Lee |
| 72 | BiSpace Planning: Concurrent Multi-Space Exploration
Rosen Diankov · Nathan Ratliff · Dave Ferguson · Siddhartha Srinivasa · James Kuffner |
| 60 | CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle
Keehong Seo · Soon-Jo Chung · Jean-Jacques Slotine |
| 50 | NanoNewton Force Sensing and Control in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation
Xinyu Liu · Keekyoung Kim · Yong Zhang · Yu Sun |
| 48 | Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation
Dov Katz · Yuri Pyuro · Oliver Brock |
▸ RSS07 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 41 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 82.93 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 233 | Mapping Large Loops with a Single Hand-Held Camera
Laura A. Clemente · Andrew Davison · Ian Reid · Jos Neira · Juan D. Tards |
| 183 | A Tree Parameterization for Efficiently Computing Maximum Likelihood Maps using Gradient Descent
Giorgio Grisetti · Cyrill Stachniss · Slawomir Grzonka · Wolfram Burgard |
| 154 | The Stochastic Motion Roadmap: A Sampling Framework for Planning with Markov Motion Uncertainty
Ron Alterovitz · Thierry Simeon · Ken Goldberg |
| 131 | Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing
Sami Haddadin · Alin Albu-Schffer · Gerd Hirzinger |
| 85 | Map-Based Precision Vehicle Localization in Urban Environments
Jesse Levinson · Michael Montemerlo · Sebastian Thrun |
▸ RSS06 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 39 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 87.18 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 320 | Unified Inverse Depth Parametrization for Monocular SLAM
J. Montiel · J. Civera · A. Davison |
| 228 | Self-supervised Monocular Road Detection in Desert Terrain
H. Dahlkamp · A. Kaehler · D. Stavens · S. Thrun · G. Bradski |
| 194 | Gaussian Processes for Signal Strength-Based Location Estimation
B. Ferris · D. Haehnel · D. Fox |
| 99 | Distributed Coverage Control with Sensory Feedback for Networked Robots
M. Schwager · J. McLurkin · D. Rus |
| 91 | Elastic Roadmaps: Globally Task-Consistent Motion for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
Y. Yang · O. Brock |
▸ RSS05 [Full results >>]
| Number of papers: | 48 |
| Percentage of papers with more than 5 citations: | 79.17 % |
| Last update: | Jul 2014 |
| #Cit | Title of top 5 papers |
|---|---|
| 237 | Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Particle Filters
Andrew Howard |
| 192 | Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters
Cyrill Stachniss · Giorgio Grisetti · Wolfram Burgard |
| 181 | Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing
Michail G. Lagoudakis · Evangelos Markakis · David Kempe · Pinar Keskinocak · Anton Kleywegt · Sven Koenig · Craig Tovey · Adam Meyerson · Sonal Jain |
| 161 | Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters
Ryan Eustice · Hanumant Singh · John Leonard · Matthew Walter · Robert Ballard |
| 159 | Scaling hard vertical surfaces with compliant microspine arrays
Alan T. Asbeck · Sangbae Kim · William R. Provancher · Michele Lanzetta |