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John J. Leonard

Active 1972–2026

234
Papers
26,404
Citations
76
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Citations

Citations per year for John J. Leonard1970: 1 citations1974: 1 citations1975: 2 citations1976: 1 citations1978: 2 citations1980: 1 citations1986: 1 citations1988: 1 citations1990: 5 citations1991: 19 citations1992: 30 citations1993: 29 citations1994: 52 citations1995: 69 citations1996: 62 citations1997: 57 citations1998: 97 citations1999: 97 citations2000: 117 citations2001: 144 citations2002: 164 citations2003: 198 citations2004: 237 citations2005: 243 citations2006: 430 citations2007: 436 citations2008: 406 citations2009: 494 citations2010: 508 citations2011: 438 citations2012: 467 citations2013: 668 citations2014: 672 citations2015: 726 citations2016: 765 citations2017: 839 citations2018: 1,089 citations2019: 1,199 citations2020: 1,159 citations2021: 1,200 citations2022: 1,132 citations2023: 1,069 citations2024: 1,090 citations2025: 803 citations2026: 192 citations1971–1973: no citations, so these years are not shown1977: no citations, so this year is not shown1979: no citations, so this year is not shown1981–1985: no citations, so these years are not shown1987: no citations, so this year is not shown1989: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,479 citing papers, 22.8% of this breakdownChina: 2,627 citing papers, 17.2% of this breakdownGermany: 1,023 citing papers, 6.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 814 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 726 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownSpain: 613 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownCanada: 548 citing papers, 3.6% of this breakdownFrance: 507 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownItaly: 472 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSouth Korea: 469 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownJapan: 428 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 345 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdown
0%22.8%Other 21.2%

Institutions

Fields

  • Engineering71.2%
  • Computer Science23.2%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences1.4%
  • Environmental Science0.9%
  • Neuroscience0.7%
  • Physics and Astronomy0.6%
  • Other2%

Topics

  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization22%
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms8.2%
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies8%
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems5.8%
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques5.8%
  • Advanced Vision and Imaging5.1%
  • Other45.1%

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  1. Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Toward the Robust-Perception Age

    Authors: Cesar Cadena, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo, Yasir Latif, Davide Scaramuzza, José Neira, Ian Reid, John J. Leonard - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Trans. Robotics 2016 cited by 3,285

  2. iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes tree

    Authors: Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, Viorela Ila, John J. Leonard, Frank Dellaert - The International Journal of Robotics Research, Int. J. Robotics Res. 2011 cited by 1,322

  3. Visual Place Recognition: A Survey

    Authors: Stephanie M. Lowry, Niko Sünderhauf, Paul Newman, John J. Leonard, David D. Cox, Peter I. Corke, Michael J. Milford - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Trans. Robotics 2015 cited by 1,073

  4. Sim2Real in Robotics and Automation: Applications and Challenges

    Authors: Sebastian Höfer, Kostas E. Bekris, Ankur Handa, Juan Camilo Gamboa, Melissa Mozifian, Florian Golemo, Christopher G. Atkeson, Dieter Fox, Ken Goldberg, John J. Leonard, C. Karen Liu, Jan Peters, Shuran Song, Peter Welinder, Martha White - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng. 2021 cited by 153

  5. SE-Sync: A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Synchronization over the Special Euclidean Group

    Authors: David M. Rosen, Luca Carlone, Afonso S. Bandeira, John J. Leonard - The International Journal of Robotics Research, Int. J. Robotics Res. 2018 cited by 283

  6. NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields

    Authors: Antoni Rosinol, John J. Leonard, Luca Carlone - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023 cited by 255

  7. iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping with fluid relinearization and incremental variable reordering

    Authors: Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Richard Roberts, Viorela Ila, John J. Leonard, Frank Dellaert - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011 cited by 253

  8. Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research

    Authors: Liam Paull, Jacopo Tani, Heejin Ahn, Javier Alonso-Mora, Luca Carlone, Michal Cáp, Yu Fan Chen, Changhyun Choi, Jeff Dusek, Yajun Fang, Daniel Hoehener, Shih-Yuan Liu, Michael Novitzky, Igor Franzoni Okuyama, Jason Pazis, Guy Rosman, Valerio Varricchio, Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Dmitry S. Yershov, Hang Zhao, Michael Benjamin, Christopher Carr, Maria T. Zuber, Sertac Karaman, Emilio Frazzoli, Domitilla Del Vecchio, Daniela Rus, Jonathan P. How, John J. Leonard, Andrea Censi - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017 cited by 239

  9. openalex_id:w2143769815

    Authors: Thomas J. Whelan, Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Maurice Fallon, John J. Leonard, John McDonald cited by 445

  10. Simultaneous map building and localization for an autonomous mobile robot

    Authors: John J. Leonard, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte - Proceedings IROS '91:IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '91 1991 cited by 791

  11. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

    Authors: Cyrill Stachniss, John J. Leonard, Sebastian Thrun - Springer handbooks, Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd Ed. 2016 cited by 110

  12. Advances in Inference and Representation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

    Authors: David M. Rosen, Kevin J. Doherty, Antonio Terán Espinoza, John J. Leonard - Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Annu. Rev. Control. Robotics Auton. Syst. 2021 cited by 79

  13. Mobile robot localization by tracking geometric beacons

    Authors: John J. Leonard, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte - IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom. 1991 cited by 1,228

  14. A perception‐driven autonomous urban vehicle

    Authors: John J. Leonard, Jonathan P. How, Seth Teller, Mitch Berger, Stefan Campbell, Gaston Fiore, Luke Fletcher, Emilio Frazzoli, Albert S. Huang, Sertaç Karaman, Olivier Koch, Yoshiaki Kuwata, David C. Moore, Edwin Olson, Steve Peters, Justin Teo, Robert Truax, Matthew R. Walter, David Barrett, Alexander Epstein, Keoni Maheloni, Katy Moyer, Troy Jones, Ryan Buckley, Matthew Antone, Robert Galejs, Siddhartha Krishnamurthy, Jonathan P. Williams - Journal of Field Robotics 2008 cited by 409

  15. Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation

    Authors: John J. Leonard, Alexander Bähr - Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering 2016 cited by 240

  16. Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Authors: Alexander Bahr, John J. Leonard, Maurice F. Fallon - The International Journal of Robotics Research, Int. J. Robotics Res. 2009 cited by 355

  17. Lagrangian Duality in 3D SLAM: Verification Techniques and Optimal Solutions

    Authors: Luca Carlone, David M. Rosen, Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore, John J. Leonard, Frank Dellaert - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015 cited by 92

  18. Fast Iterative Alignment of Pose Graphs with Poor Initial Estimates

    Authors: Edwin Olson, John J. Leonard, Seth J. Teller - 2006, ICRA 2006 cited by 427

  19. Multiple relative pose graphs for robust cooperative mapping

    Authors: Been Kim, Michael Kaess, Luke Fletcher, John J. Leonard, Abraham Bachrach, Nicholas Roy, Seth J. Teller - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010 cited by 180

  20. Adaptive Mobile Robot Navigation and Mapping

    Authors: Hans Jacob S. Feder, John J. Leonard, Christopher M. Smith - The International Journal of Robotics Research, Int. J. Robotics Res. 1999 cited by 359

  21. Nested autonomy for unmanned marine vehicles with MOOS-IvP

    Authors: Michael R. Benjamin, Henrik Schmidt, Paul M. Newman, John J. Leonard - Journal of Field Robotics, J. Field Robotics 2010 cited by 232

  22. Multimodal Semantic SLAM with Probabilistic Data Association

    Authors: Kevin J. Doherty, Dehann Fourie, John J. Leonard - International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019 cited by 82

  23. Perspectives on Sim2Real Transfer for Robotics: A Summary of the R: SS 2020 Workshop

    Authors: Sebastian Höfer, Kostas E. Bekris, Ankur Handa, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera, Florian Golemo, Melissa Mozifian, Christopher G. Atkeson, Dieter Fox, Ken Goldberg, John J. Leonard, C. Karen Liu, Jan Peters, Shuran Song, Peter Welinder, Martha White - arXiv (Cornell University), CoRR 2020 cited by 46

  24. Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion

    Authors: Thomas J. Whelan, Michael Kaess, Maurice Fallon, Hordur Johannsson, John J. Leonard, John McDonald - 2012 cited by 544