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1. Swarm Intelligence

   1. Towards an Engineering Science of Robot Foraging

      • Alan F. T. Winfield

      Pages 185-192

   2. A Modular Robot Driven by Protoplasmic Streaming

      • Takuya Umedachi, Taichi Kitamura, Koichi Takeda, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Akio Ishiguro

      Pages 193-202

   3. A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-robot Systems

      • Iñaki Navarro, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli, Fernando Matía

      Pages 203-214

   4. Guiding a Robot Flock via Informed Robots

      • Hande Çelikkanat, Ali Emre Turgut, Erol Şahin

      Pages 215-225

   5. Theoretical and Empirical Study of Pedestrian Outflow through an Exit

      • Daichi Yanagisawa, Ayako Kimura, Ryosuke Nishi, Akiyasu Tomoeda, Katsuhiro Nishinari

      Pages 227-238

   6. Understanding the Potential Impact of Multiple Robots in Odor Source Localization

      • Thomas Lochmatter, Alcherio Martinoli

      Pages 239-250

   7. Analyzing Multi-agent Activity Logs Using Process Mining Techniques

      • Anne Rozinat, Stefan Zickler, Manuela Veloso, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Colin McMillen

      Pages 251-260

   8. Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities

      • Christopher M. Clark, Ryan Morton, George A. Bekey

      Pages 261-270

2. Multi-robot Cooperation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. Robotic Self-replication, Self-diagnosis, and Self-repair: Probabilistic Considerations

      • Gregory S. Chirikjian

      Pages 273-281

   3. Analysis of Multi-robot Play Effectiveness and of Distributed Incidental Play Recognition

      • Colin McMillen, Manuela Veloso

      Pages 283-294

   4. Sparsing of Information Matrix for Practical Application of SLAM for Autonomous Robots

      • Haiwei Dong, Zhiwei Luo

      Pages 295-304

   5. Trajectory Generation for Multiple Robots of a Car Transportation System

      • Mitsuru Endo, Kenji Hirose, Yusuke Sugahara, Yasuhisa Hirata, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Takashi Kanbayashi et al.

      Pages 305-314

   6. Distributed Control and Coordination of Cooperative Mobile Manipulator Systems

      • Enrico Simetti, Alessio Turetta, Giuseppe Casalino

      Pages 315-324

   7. Rearrangement Task by Multiple Robots Using a Territorial Approach

      • Norisuke Fujii, Reiko Inoue, Jun Ota

      Pages 325-333

   8. A Task Planner for an Autonomous Social Robot

      • Samir Alili, Rachid Alami, Vincent Montreuil

      Pages 335-344

   9. A Stochastic Clustering Auction (SCA) for Centralized and Distributed Task Allocation in Multi-agent Teams

      • Kai Zhang, Emmanuel G. Collins Jr., Dongqing Shi, Xiuwen Liu, Oscar Chuy Jr.

      Pages 345-354

   10. Corridors for Robot Team Navigation

       • Zack Butler, Carlos Bribiescas

       Pages 355-364

3. Practical Control of Modular Robots

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 365-365

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   2. Efficient Distributed Reinforcement Learning through Agreement

      • Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Daniela Rus

      Pages 367-378

The International Symposia on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) started at Riken, Japan in 1992. Since then, the DARS symposia have been held every two years: in 1994 and 1996 in Japan (Riken, Wako), in 1998 in Germany (Karlsruhe), in 2000 in the USA (Knoxville, TN), in 2002 in Japan (Fukuoka), in 2004 in France (Toulouse), and in 2006 in the USA (Minneapolis, MN). The 9th DARS symposium, which was held during November 17–19 in T- kuba, Japan, hosted 84 participants from 13 countries. The 48 papers presented there were selected through rigorous peer review with a 50% acceptance ratio. Along with three invited talks, they addressed the spreading research fields of DARS, which are classifiable along two streams: theoretical and standard studies of DARS, and interdisciplinary studies using DARS concepts. The former stream includes multi-robot cooperation (task assignment methodology among multiple robots, multi-robot localization, etc.), swarm intelligence, and modular robots. The latter includes distributed sensing, mobiligence, ambient intelligence, and mul- agent systems interaction with human beings. This book not only offers readers the latest research results related to DARS from theoretical studies to application-oriented ones; it also describes the present trends of this field. With the diversity and depth revealed herein, we expect that DARS technologies will flourish soon.

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• cognition
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• distributed autonomous robotic systems
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• sensing
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• RACE (Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-shi, Japan

  Hajime Asama

• Distributed System Design Research Group, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan

  Haruhisa Kurokawa

• Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  Jun Ota

• Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  Kosuke Sekiyama

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