This book collects papers selected by an international program committee for presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. The papers present state of the art research advances in the field of distributed robotics. What makes this book distinctive is the emphasis on using multiple robots and on making them autonomous, as opposed to being teleoperated. Novel algorithms, system architectures, technologies, and numerous applications are covered.
Author(s): Maria Gini, Richard Voyles
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 266
Contents......Page 8
A Distributed Biconnectivity Check......Page 16
A Method for Building Small-Size Segment-Based Maps......Page 26
Learning When to Auction and When to Bid......Page 36
System Identification of Self-Organizing Robotic Swarms......Page 46
Synchronization Control by Structural Modification of Nonlinear Oscillator Network......Page 56
Frontier-Graph Exploration for Multi-robot Systems in an Unknown Indoor Environment......Page 66
Distributed Robotics: a Language Approach......Page 76
A Particle Swarm-Based Mobile Sensor Network for Odor Source Localization in a Dynamic Environment......Page 86
Cooperative Multi-robot Target Tracking......Page 96
A Comparative Study of Market-Based and Threshold-Based Task Allocation......Page 106
Single Operator, Multiple Robots: Call-Request Handling in Tight-Coordination Tasks......Page 117
Distributed Metamorphosis Control of a Modular Robotic System M-TRAN......Page 128
Preliminary Results in Tracking Mobile Targets Using Range Sensors from Multiple Robots......Page 138
Robotic Swarm Dispersion Using Wireless Intensity Signals......Page 148
Distributed, Play-Based Role Assignment for Robot Teams in Dynamic Environments......Page 158
Simultaneous Planning, Localization, and Mapping in a Camera Sensor Network......Page 168
Adaptive Robotic Communication Using Coordination Costs......Page 178
What to Communicate? Execution-Time Decision in Multi-agent POMDPs......Page 189
A Distributed Multi-robot Cooperation Framework for Real Time Task Achievement......Page 199
Empirical Evaluation of Auction-Based Coordination of AUVs in a Realistic Simulated Mine Countermeasure Task......Page 209
Principled Synthesis for Large-Scale Systems: Task Sequencing......Page 219
A Study on Proportion Regulation Model for Multi-robot System......Page 229
Market-Based Multi-robot Coalition Formation......Page 239
Multi-robot User Interface Modeling......Page 249
Index......Page 261
