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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is a peer-reviewed journal published by IEEE, covering Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms. Over its lifetime it has published 11,175 papers, which have received 234,163 citations.

PublisherIEEE
Reference styleNumbered (IEEE)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, "A representative article title," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 45–58, 2023.

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Abbreviation (ISO-4)RA-L
Publishes research inRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization Robot Manipulation and Learning Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Soft Robotics and Applications Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
ISSN2377-3766
Citation impact (2-yr)3.81
h-index160
i10-index5,342
Top institutions publishing hereHarbin Institute of Technology
Journal websiteieeexplore.ieee.org
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Papers published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters per year

32
2015
214
2016
344
2017
542
2018
638
2019
929
2020
1.3K
2021
1.6K
2022
1.2K
2023
1.6K
2024
1.8K
2025

Citation impact of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters by publication year

2.4K
2015
10.2K
2016
19K
2017
29.3K
2018
28.7K
2019
34.8K
2020
36.3K
2021
35.1K
2022
19.7K
2023
12.4K
2024
3.6K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

DynaSLAM: Tracking, Mapping, and Inpainting in Dynamic Scenes

Berta Bescos, Jose M. Facil, Javier Civera et al. · 26 Jul 2018

The assumption of scene rigidity is typical in SLAM algorithms. Such a strong assumption limits the use of most visual SLAM systems in populated real-world environments, which are the target of several relevant applications like service robotics or autonomous vehicles. In this letter we present DynaSLAM, a visual SLAM system that, building on ORB-SLAM2, adds…

1,187 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter

Wei Xu, Fu Zhang · 8 Mar 2021

This letter presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion, noisy or cluttered environments where degeneration occurs. To lower the computation load in the presence of a large number of measurements, we present…

1,007 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Visual-Inertial Monocular SLAM With Map Reuse

Raul Mur-Artal, Juan D. Tardós · 17 Jan 2017

In recent years there have been excellent results in visual-inertial odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However, these approaches lack the capability to close loops and trajectory estimation accumulates drift even if the sensor is continually revisiting the same place. In this letter, we…

A Machine Learning Approach to Visual Perception of Forest Trails for Mobile Robots

Alessandro Giusti, Jérôme Guzzi, Dan Cireşan et al. · 17 Dec 2015

We study the problem of perceiving forest or mountain trails from a single monocular image acquired from the viewpoint of a robot traveling on the trail itself. Previous literature focused on trail segmentation, and used low-level features such as image saliency or appearance contrast; we propose a different approach based on a deep neural network…

Robust and Efficient Quadrotor Trajectory Generation for Fast Autonomous Flight

Boyu Zhou, Fei Gao, Luqi Wang et al. · 10 Jul 2019

In this letter, we propose a robust and efficient quadrotor motion planning system for fast flight in three-dimensional complex environments. We adopt a kinodynamic path searching method to find a safe, kinodynamic feasible, and minimum-time initial trajectory in the discretized control space. We improve the smoothness and clearance of the trajectory by a B-spline optimization,…

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