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• Coordination for Perception, Coverage, and Tracking
• Task Allocation and Coordination Strategies
• Modular Robots and Novel Mechanisms and Sensors
• Formation Control and Motion Planning for Robot Teams
• Learning, Adaptation, and Cognition in Many Robot Systems.-

Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing and maturing interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, network science, control theory, and electrical and mechanical engineering. The goal of the Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) is to exchange and stimulate research ideas to realize advanced distributed robotic systems. This volume of proceedings includes 31 original contributions presented at the 2012 International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2012) held in November 2012 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD USA. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Europa, and the Americas, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distributed robotic systems. The book is organized into five parts, representative of critical long-term and emerging research thrusts in the multi-robot community: Coordination for Perception, Coverage, and Tracking; Task Allocation and Coordination Strategies; Modular Robots and Novel Mechanisms and Sensors; Formation Control and Planning for Robot Teams; and Learning, Adaptation, and Cognition for Robot Teams.

• Locomotion.- Haptics.- Manipulation.- Perception.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Mapping and Localization.- Mechanisms.- Perception and Planning.- Sensor Networks.- Many-Robot Systems.- Interactive Presentations.- Plenary Talk.
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The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group setting, researchers from around the world who are in the forefront of experimental robotics research. This unique reference presents the latest advances across the various fields of robotics, with ideas that are not only conceived conceptually but also explored experimentally. It collects robotics contributions on the current developments and new directions in the field of experimental robotics, which are based on the papers presented at the 14th ISER held on June 15-18, 2014 in Marrakech and Essaouira, Morocco. This present fourteenth edition of Experimental Robotics edited by M. Ani Hsieh, Oussama Khatib, and Vijay Kumar offers a collection of a broad range of topics in field and human-ce ntered robotics.
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• Energy-Time Efficiency in Aerial Swarm Deployment / Timothy Stirling and Dario Floreano
• A Distributed, Real-Time Approach to Multi Robot Uniform Frequency Coverage / Giorgio Cannata and Antonio Sgorbissa
• Connectivity Maintenance of a Heterogeneous Sensor Network / Randy Andres Cortez, Rafael Fierro and John Wood
• Multi-robot Topological Exploration Using Olfactory Cues / Ali Marjovi and Lino Marques
• Distributed Coverage and Exploration in Unknown Non-convex Environments / Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar
• Evaluating Efficient Data Collection Algorithms for Environmental Sensor Networks / William C. Evans, Alexander Bahr and Alcherio Martinoli
• A Plume Tracking Algorithm Based on Crosswind Formations / Thomas Lochmatter, Ebru Aydın Göl, Iñaki Navarro and Alcherio Martinoli
• Cooperative Distributed Object Tracking by Multiple Robots Based on Feature Selection / Takayuki Umeda, Kosuke Sekiyama and Toshio Fukuda.

• Pancakes: A Software Framework for Distributed Robot and Sensor Network Applications / Patrick Martin, Jean-Pierre de la Croix and Magnus Egerstedt
• Distributed Information Filters for MAV Cooperative Localization / Andrea Cristofaro, Alessandro Renzaglia and Agostino Martinelli
• Multi-robot Map Updating in Dynamic Environments / Fabrizio Abrate, Basilio Bona, Marina Indri, Stefano Rosa and Federico Tibaldi
• Any-Com Multi-robot Path-Planning: Maximizing Collaboration for Variable Bandwidth / Michael Otte and Nikolaus Correll
• An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Motion Planning of Multiple Robots / Ellips Masehian and Davoud Sedighizadeh
• Decentralized and Prioritized Navigation and Collision Avoidance for Multiple Mobile Robots / Giannis Roussos and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
• Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Multiple Non-Holonomic Robots / Javier Alonso-Mora, Andreas Breitenmoser, Martin Rufli, Paul Beardsley and Roland Siegwart.

• Visual-Aided Guidance for the Maintenance of Multirobot Formations / Patricio Nebot and Enric Cervera
• Reactive Coordination and Adaptive Lattice Formation in Mobile Robotic Surveillance Swarms / Robert J. Mullen, Dorothy Monekosso, Sarah Barman and Paolo Remagnino
• Probabilistic Communication Based Potential Force for Robot Formations: A Practical Approach / Simon Bjerg Mikkelsen, René Jespersen and Trung Dung Ngo
• Coordinating a Group of Autonomous Robotic Floats in Shallow Seas / Eemeli Aro, Zhongliang Hu, Mika Vainio and Aarne Halme
• Distributed Algebraic Connectivity Maximization for Robotic Networks: A Heuristic Approach / Andrea Simonetto, Tamás Keviczky and Robert Babuška
• Beat-Based Synchronization and Steering for Groups of Fixed-Wing Flying Robots / Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Jean-Christophe Zufferey and Dario Floreano
• Distributed Filtering for Time-Delayed Deployment to Multiple Sites / T. William Mather, Christopher Braun and M. Ani Hsieh.

• A Formal Approach to Deployment of Robotic Teams in an Urban-Like Environment / Yushan Chen, Xu Chu Ding, Alin Stefanescu and Calin Belta
• Heuristic Planning for Decentralized MDPs with Sparse Interactions / Francisco S. Melo and Manuela Veloso
• A Note on the Consensus Protocol with Some Applications to Agent Orbit Pattern Generation / Panagiotis Tsiotras and Luis Ignacio Reyes Castro
• Utilizing Stochastic Processes for Computing Distributions of Large-Size Robot Population Optimal Centralized Control / Dejan Milutinović
• Robust Multi-robot Team Formations Using Weighted Voting Games / Prithviraj Dasgupta and Ke Cheng
• Influence Maximization for Informed Agents in Collective Behavior / Amir Asiaee Taheri, Mohammad Afshar and Masoud Asadpour
• Emergence of Specialization in a Swarm of Robots / Ádám M. Halász, Yanting Liang, M. Ani Hsieh and Hong-Jian Lai.

• Distributed Colony-Level Algorithm Switching for Robot Swarm Foraging / Nicholas Hoff, Robert Wood and Radhika Nagpal
• On Fault Tolerance and Scalability of Swarm Robotic Systems / Jan Dyre Bjerknes and Alan F.T. Winfield
• Hierarchical Distributed Task Allocation for Multi-robot Exploration / John Hawley and Zack Butler
• Endocrine Control for Task Distribution among Heterogeneous Robots / Joanne H. Walker and Myra S. Wilson
• Hierarchical Planning for Self-reconfiguring Robots Using Module Kinematics / Robert Fitch and Rowan McAllister
• Heterogeneous Self-assembling Based on Constraint Satisfaction Problem / Serge Kernbach
• A New Graph Signature Calculation Method Based on Power Centrality for Modular Robots / Keyvan Golestan, Masoud Asadpour and Hadi Moradi
• Sensor-Coupled Fractal Gene Regulatory Networks for Locomotion Control of a Modular Snake Robot / Payam Zahadat, David Johan Christensen, Serajeddin Katebi and Kasper Stoy.

• Analysis of Human Standing-Up Motion Based on Distributed Muscle Control / Qi An, Yusuke Ikemoto, Hajime Asama and Tamio Arai
• Cooperative Grasping and Transport Using Multiple Quadrotors / Daniel Mellinger, Michael Shomin, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar
• Cooperative Transportation by Swarm Robots Using Pheromone Communication / Ryusuke Fujisawa, Hikaru Imamura and Fumitoshi Matsuno
• Socially-Mediated Negotiation for Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport / Eliseo Ferrante, Manuele Brambilla, Mauro Birattari and Marco Dorigo
• Physical Interactions in Swarm Robotics: The Hand-Bot Case Study / Michael Bonani, Philippe Rétornaz, Stéphane Magnenat, Hannes Bleuler and Francesco Mondada
• A Low-Cost Multi-robot System for Research, Teaching, and Outreach / James McLurkin, Andrew J. Lynch, Scott Rixner, Thomas W. Barr and Alvin Chou, et al.

Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical engineering. The goal of the Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) is to exchange and stimulate research ideas to realize advanced distributed robotic systems. This volume of proceedings includes 43 original contributions presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2010), which was held in November 2010 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Europa, and the Americas, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distributed robotic systems. The book is organized into four parts, each representing one critical and long-term research thrust in the multi-robot community: distributed sensing (Part I); localization, navigation, and formations (Part II); coordination algorithms and formal methods (Part III); modularity, distributed manipulation, and platforms (Part IV).
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