This book of the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2008) provides broad coverage of the technical issues of the current state of the art in distributed autonomous systems composed of multiple robots, robotic modules, or robotic agents. The DARS 2008 dealt with strategies to realize complex, modular, robust, and fault-tolerant robotic systems. Technologies and hardware experiments, as well as system design, modeling, simulation, sensing, planning, operation, communication, and control are presented here. Specific topics include multi-robot cooperation, swarm intelligence, modular robots, distributed sensing, mobiligence, ambient intelligence, and multi-agent systems interacting with human beings.
Author(s): Marco Baglietto, Giorgio Cannata, Francesco Capezio, Antonio Sgorbissa (auth.), Hajime Asama, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Jun Ota, Kosuke Sekiyama (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: Conference publication
Pages: 587
City: Berlin ; London
Tags: Control , Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Machinery and Machine Elements; Systems Theory, Control
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Multi-Robot Uniform Frequency Coverage of Significant Locations in the Environment....Pages 3-14
Measuring the Accuracy of Distributed Algorithms on Multi-robot Systems with Dynamic Network Topologies....Pages 15-26
Network Topology Reconfiguration Based on Risk Management....Pages 27-37
Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking Using Wireless Relay Robots....Pages 39-50
Cooperative Object Tracking with Mobile Robotic Sensor Network....Pages 51-62
Deployment and Management of Wireless Sensor Network Using Mobile Robots for Gathering Environmental Information....Pages 63-72
Global Pose Estimation of Multiple Cameras with Particle Filters....Pages 73-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Motion Control of Dense Robot Colony Using Thermodynamics....Pages 85-96
Modeling of Self-organized Competition Hierarchy with Body Weight Development in Larval Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus ....Pages 97-107
Intelligent Mobility Playing the Role of Impulse Absorption....Pages 109-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Cognitive Ontology: A Concept Structure for Dynamic Event Interpretation and Description from Visual Scene....Pages 123-134
Subjective Timing Control in Synchronized Motion of Humans....Pages 135-147
Robot Software Framework Using Object and Aspect Oriented Programming Paradigm....Pages 149-160
Distributed Context Assessment for Robots in Intelligent Environments....Pages 161-172
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Jamology: Physics of Self-driven Particles and Toward Solution of All Jams....Pages 175-184
Towards an Engineering Science of Robot Foraging....Pages 185-192
A Modular Robot Driven by Protoplasmic Streaming....Pages 193-202
A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-robot Systems....Pages 203-214
Guiding a Robot Flock via Informed Robots....Pages 215-225
Theoretical and Empirical Study of Pedestrian Outflow through an Exit....Pages 227-238
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Understanding the Potential Impact of Multiple Robots in Odor Source Localization....Pages 239-250
Analyzing Multi-agent Activity Logs Using Process Mining Techniques....Pages 251-260
Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities....Pages 261-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Robotic Self-replication, Self-diagnosis, and Self-repair: Probabilistic Considerations....Pages 273-281
Analysis of Multi-robot Play Effectiveness and of Distributed Incidental Play Recognition....Pages 283-294
Sparsing of Information Matrix for Practical Application of SLAM for Autonomous Robots....Pages 295-304
Trajectory Generation for Multiple Robots of a Car Transportation System....Pages 305-314
Distributed Control and Coordination of Cooperative Mobile Manipulator Systems....Pages 315-324
Rearrangement Task by Multiple Robots Using a Territorial Approach....Pages 325-333
A Task Planner for an Autonomous Social Robot....Pages 335-344
A Stochastic Clustering Auction (SCA) for Centralized and Distributed Task Allocation in Multi-agent Teams....Pages 345-354
Corridors for Robot Team Navigation....Pages 355-364
Front Matter....Pages 365-365
Efficient Distributed Reinforcement Learning through Agreement....Pages 367-378
Morphology Independent Learning in Modular Robots....Pages 379-391
Reconfigurable Modular Robots Adaptively Transforming a Mechanical Structure (Numerical Expression of Transformation Criteria of “CHOBIE II” and Motion Experiments)....Pages 393-403
Toward Flexible and Scalable Self-reconfiguration of M-TRAN....Pages 405-416
Reconfigurable Teams: Cooperative Goal Seeking with Self-Reconfigurable Robots....Pages 417-428
“Deformable Wheel”-A Self-recovering Modular Rolling Track....Pages 429-440
Exploit Morphology to Simplify Docking of Self-reconfigurable Robots....Pages 441-452
Reconfigurable Modular Universal Unit (MUU) for Mobile Robots....Pages 453-461
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Design and Analysis for AGV Systems Using Competitive Co-evolution....Pages 465-476
Cooperative Control of Multi-robot Nonholonomic Systems with Dynamics Uncertainties and Control Time-Delays....Pages 477-489
Guaranteed-Performance Multi-robot Routing under Limited Communication Range....Pages 491-502
Pipeless Batch Plant with Operating Robots for a Multiproduct Production System....Pages 503-512
Control Methodology of Transfer Crane with Look-Ahead Rule in Harbor Transportation System....Pages 513-522
A Novel Marsupial Robot Society: Towards Long-Term Autonomy....Pages 523-532
Predicting the Movements of Robot Teams Using Generative Models....Pages 533-542
Interactive Mobile Robotic Drinking Glasses....Pages 543-551
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Adaptive Supervisory Control of a Communication Robot That Approaches Visitors....Pages 555-564
Behavior Design of a Human-Interactive Robot through Parallel Tasks Optimization....Pages 565-574
Tracking and Following People and Robots in Crowded Environment by a Mobile Robot with SOKUIKI Sensor....Pages 575-584
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