Distributed Autonomous Robotic System 6

This book of the Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2004) provides broad coverage of the technical issues of the current state of the art in distributed multi-robot systems. The DARS 2004 symposium dealt with new strategies to realize complex, modular, robust, and faulttolerant robotic systems. Technologies, algorithms, and system architecture for distributed autonomous robotic systems are presented here. Specific topics include learning and adaptation in teams of robots, cooperation of multiple robots, distributed/cooperative perception, distributed problem solving, decisional autonomy and mixed initiative, distributed/cooperative sensing, self-organizing robotic systems, cellular robotics, collective/swarm intelligence, control issues in multi-robot systems, human and robot team interaction, bio-robotics, environment exploration, logistics, assembly, and search and rescue.