Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 3

Distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS) are systems composed of multiple autonomous units such as modules, cells, processors, agents, and robots. Combination or cooperative operation of multiple autonomous units is expected to lead to desirable features such as flexibility, fault tolerance, and efficiency. The DARS is the leading established conference on distributed autonomous systems. All papers have the common goal to contribute solutions to the very demanding task of designing distributed systems to realize robust and intelligent robotic systems.

Distributed autonomous robotic systems (DARS) are systems composed of multiple autonomous units such as modules, cells, processors, agents, and robots. All papers have the common goal to contribute solutions to the very demanding task of designing distributed systems to realize robust and intelligent robotic systems.

Session M1 Multiple Mobile Robot Systems.- Iterative Transportation by Cooperative Mobile Robots in Unknown Environment.- Sensor Coordination for Multi Mobile Robots Systems.- Robust Collision Avoidance in Multi-Robot Systems.- Distributed Task Planner for a Set of Holonic Mobile Robots.- Session M2 Distributed Systems.- Distributed Mobile Robotics by the Method of Dynamic Teams.- Communicating and Integrating the Modules of a Robotic Software Application.- A Distributed Diagnosis System for Automated Production Ceils using a Multi-Agent Approach.- A parallel control architecture for industrial robot cells.- Session M3 Self-Organization.- Self-Organized Behaviour of Distributed Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems by Pattern Formation Principles.- Development of Self-Learning Vision-Based Mobile Robots for Acquiring Soccer Robots Behaviors.- Mechanisms for self-organizing robots which reconfigure in a vertical plane.- Experiment of Self-repairing Modular Machine.- Session M4 Cooperation & Coordination in Robotics.- Cooperative Transportation by Two 4-legged Robots with Implicit Communication.- Coordinate Motion Control of Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots Based on Compliant Motion Control.- Cooperation Among Autonomous Robots: Unsignalised Road Intersection Problem.- Session T1 Sensing & Navigation for Robot Systems.- Multirobot Navigation Using Cooperative Teams.- Cooperative Perception and World-Model Maintenance in Mobile Navigation Tasks.- Navigation and Routemark-Detection of the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair.- A "Barber Pole" Beacon for Mobile Robot Cooperation.- Session T2 Multi-Agent Systems.- An Emergence Model of Sense of Values in a Competitive Social System.- Dynamic Agencies and Multi-Robot Systems.- A Robot-Controlling Agent Description with Finite StateMachines.- COMROS - A Multi-Agent Robot Architecture.- Special Session S1 Human Robot Interaction & Assembly Tasks.- CoRA - An Instructable robot.- Reasoning about Objects, Assemblies, and Roles in On-Going Assembly Tasks.- Using Distributed Sensing and Sensor Fusion for Uncalibrated Visual Manipulator Guidance.- Development of a Robot Agent for Interactive Assembly.- Session T3 Autonomous Robotic Systems & Man-Machine Interfaces.- Probabilistic Modelling of a Bio-Inspired Collective Experiment with Real Robots.- Real-time Path Adaptation for Sweeping by Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Method for Controlling a Group of Robots by an Operator.- Graphical User Interface for Collaborative System of Human and Mobile Robots with Sensors.- Special Session S2 RoboCup.- RoboCube a "universal" "special purpose" Hardware for the RoboCup small robots league.- Emergent Cooperation in a Virtual Soccer Environment.- Implicit Coordination in a Multi-Agent System using a Behavior-based Approach.- Modeling Environment and Tasks for Cooperative Team Play.- Session W1 Distributed Planning & Learning.- Distributed Motion Planning for Service Robotic Applications.- Planning and Control System of a flexible Mulitrobot-based Microassembly Station.- Distributing Programs in Multi-Agent Systems.- An Analysis of Collective Property caused by Structure Reconfiguration.- Author Index.