Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 4

✍ Scribed by Lynne E. Parker (auth.), Lynne E. Parker, George Bekey, Jacob Barhen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Tokyo
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 478
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Fifth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2000) dealt with new strategies to realize complex, modular, robust, and fault-tolerant robotic systems. Technologies, algorithms, and system architectures for distributed autonomous robotic systems were presented and discussed during the meeting. DARS 2000 was truly an international event, with participants represent­ ing eleven countries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. All of the papers in this volume were presented at DARS 2000, and were selected on the basis of peer re­ views to ensure quality and relevance. These papers have the common goal of con­ tributing solutions to realize robust and intelligent multirobot systems. The topics of the symposium address a wide range of issues that are important in the development of decentralized robotic systems. These topics include architec­ tures, communication, biological inspirations, reconfigurable robots, localization, exploration and mapping, distributed sensing, multi robot motion coordination, tar­ get assignment and tracking, multirobot learning, and cooperative object transport. DARS clearly requires a broad area of interdisciplinary technologies related not only to robotics and computer engineering, but also to biology and psychology. The DARS symposium is the leading established conference on distributed au­ tonomous systems. The First, Second, and Third International Symposia on Distrib­ uted Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '92, DARS '94, and DARS '96) were held at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages II-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Current State of the Art in Distributed Autonomous Mobile Robotics....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Control architecture for an underwater robot society....Pages 15-24
Ayllu: Distributed Port-Arbitrated Behavior-Based Control....Pages 25-34
An Architecture for Reactive Cooperation of Mobile Distributed Robots....Pages 35-44
A Framework for Distributed Simulation of Multirobot Systems: the VLAB Experience....Pages 45-54
Robots that cooperatively enhance their plans....Pages 55-65
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing by Intelligent Data Carriers....Pages 69-78
Collective Grounded Representations for Robots....Pages 79-88
Effects of Static and Dynamic Variety in the Character of Robots on Group Intelligence of Multi-Robot System....Pages 89-98
Communication Fault Tolerance in Distributed Robotic Systems....Pages 99-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Blazing a trail: Insect-inspired resource transportation by a robot team....Pages 111-120
Artificial Emotion and Social Robotics....Pages 121-130
The Use of Biologically-Inspired Rules to Control a Collective Robotic Arm....Pages 131-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Micro Self-reconfigurable Robotic System using Shape Memory Alloy....Pages 145-154
Autonomous and Self-Sufficient CONRO Modules for Reconfigurable Robots....Pages 155-164
Motion Planning for a Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic System....Pages 165-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Distributed Multi-Robot Localization....Pages 179-188
Distance Measurment in Multi-Robot Systems based on Time Shared Scheduling....Pages 189-198
Relative Position Localizing System for Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots in Distributed Robotic System....Pages 199-208
Development of a Multiple Mobile Robot System Controlled by a Human....Pages 209-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Autonomous Mobile Robots and Distributed Exploratory Missions....Pages 221-230
Terrain Model Acquisition By Mobile Robot Teams and n -Connectivity....Pages 231-240
Graph-Based Exploration using Multiple Robots....Pages 241-250
Landmark-based Matching Algorithm for Cooperative Mapping by Autonomous Robots....Pages 251-260
Comparing Distributed Exploration Strategies with Simulated and Real Autonomous Robots....Pages 261-270
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Distributed Sensing and Data Collection Via Broken Ad Hoc Wireless Connected Networks of Mobile Robots....Pages 273-282
Experiments and Results in Multi-modal, Distributed, Robotic Perception....Pages 283-292
Cooperative Sentry Vehicles And Differential GPS Leapfrog....Pages 293-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Motion coordination in formations of multiple mobile robots using a potential field approach....Pages 305-314
Fly spy: lightweight localization and target tracking for cooperating air and ground robots....Pages 315-324
Dynamic Robot-Target Assignment — Dependence of Recovering from Breakdowns on the Speed of the Selection Process....Pages 325-334
Fuzzy Control of Distance and Motion Tracking Applied to Cooperative Autonomous Robots....Pages 335-345
Broadcast of Local Eligibility for Multi-Target Observation....Pages 347-356
A Communication-free Behavior for Docking Mobile Robots....Pages 357-367
Front Matter....Pages 369-369
On Behavior Classification in Adversarial Environments....Pages 371-380
Learning-Based Task Allocation in Decentralized Multirobot Systems....Pages 381-390
Multi-Robot Learning in a Cooperative Observation Task....Pages 391-401
Ultrafast Neural Network Training for Robot Learning from Uncertain Data....Pages 403-413
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Object Transport Using Multiple Mobile Robots with Pin Joint Endeffectors....Pages 417-426
Distributed Motion Generation for Two Omni-Directional Robots Carrying a Ladder....Pages 427-436
Front Matter....Pages 415-415
Experimental Manufacturing of Object Transfer System “Magic Carpet” Consisting of Actuator Array with Autonomous Decentralized Control....Pages 437-446
A Control Method of a Multiple Non-holonomic Robot System for Cooperative Object Transportation....Pages 447-456
Structural Characteristics of Intelligence and Embodiment in Two-Mobile Robots System....Pages 457-466
Front Matter....Pages 467-467
From distributed robot perception to human topology : a learning model....Pages 469-470
Reactive Sensor Networks: Mobile Code Support for Autonomous Networks....Pages 471-472
Cooperation of Multiple Robots to Solve Maze Tasks....Pages 473-474
Localizing a Wireless Node in a Multi-Agent System Using Kalman Filtering....Pages 475-476
Learning cooperation from human-robot interaction....Pages 477-478
Susceptibility of Swarm Control Algorithms to Agent Failure....Pages 479-480
The MICRobES Project, an Experimental Approach towards “Open Collective Robotics”....Pages 481-482
Dynamic Task Selection: A Simple Structure for Multirobot Systems....Pages 483-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-486

✦ Subjects

Mechanical Engineering