| Reconfigurable Robots | p. I |
| Self-Reconfiguration Using Directed Growth | p. 3 |
| A hardware/software architecture for the control of self reconfigurable robots | p. 13 |
| Emergent Morphology Control of a Modular Robot by Exploiting the Interaction between Control and Mechanical Dynamics | p. 23 |
| HydroGen: Automatically Generating Self-Assembly Code for Hydron Units | p. 33 |
| Emergence of Intelligence Through Mobility | |
| Local Obstacle Avoidance with Reliable Goal Acquisition for Mobile Robots | p. 45 |
| Adaptive Routing System by Intelligent Environment with Media Agents | p. 55 |
| Multi-Robot Concurrent Learning in Museum Problem | p. 65 |
| How a Cooperative Behavior can emerge from a Robot Team | p. 75 |
| Vehicle Guidance System using Local Information Assistants | p. 85 |
| Multi-Robot Perception | |
| Topological Map Merging | p. 97 |
| An approach to active sensing using the Viterbi algorithm | p. 107 |
| Using Group Knowledge for Multitarget Terrain-Based State Estimation | p. 117 |
| Multi-AUVs for Visual Mapping Tasks | p. 127 |
| Reconfigurable Robots | p. II |
| Cellular Robots Forming a Mechanical Structure (Evaluation of structural formation and hardware design of "CHOBIE II") | p. 139 |
| Planning Behaviors of Modular Robots with Coherent Structure using Randomized Method | p. 149 |
| In-Place Distributed Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Planning | p. 159 |
| Distributed Metamorphosis of Regular M-TRAN Structures | p. 169 |
| Task Allocation - Multi-Robot Cooperation | |
| Multi-Robot Task Allocation Method for Heterogeneous Tasks with Priorities | p. 181 |
| Decentralized Markov Decision Processes for Handling Temporal and Resource constraints in a Multiple Robot System | p. 191 |
| Emergent Robot Differentiation for Distributed Multi-Robot Task Allocation | p. 201 |
| Cooperative Control Method Using Evaluation Information on Objective Achievement | p. 211 |
| Multiple UAV cooperative searching operation using polygon area decomposition and efficient coverage algorithms | p. 221 |
| Control Architectures | |
| A Distributed Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Experimentation | p. 233 |
| Aerial Shepherds: Coordination among UAVs and Swarms of Robots | p. 243 |
| Dispersing robots in an unknown environment | p. 253 |
| Embedding heterogeneous levels of decisional autonomy in multi-robot systems | p. 263 |
| Distributed Problem Solving | |
| Collective Energy Distribution: Maintaining the Energy Balance in Distributed Autonomous Robots using Trophallaxis | p. 275 |
| Building Blocks for Multi-robot Construction | p. 285 |
| Coordinating Aerial Robots and Sensor Networks for Localization and Navigation | p. 295 |
| Pervasive Sensor-less Networks for Cooperative Multi-robot Tasks | p. 305 |
| Group Behavior | |
| Communication Strategies in Multi-robot Search and Retrieval: Experiences with MinDART | p. 317 |
| Value-Based Communication Preservation for Mobile Robots | p. 327 |
| Dynamical Reconfiguration of Cooperation Structure by Interaction Network | p. 337 |
| Collecting Behavior of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone | p. 347 |
| Swarm Intelligence | |
| Distributed Autonomous Micro Robots: From Small Clusters to a Real Swarm | p. 359 |
| Modeling and Optimization of a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System | p. 369 |
| Scalable Control of Distributed Robotic Macrosensors | p. 379 |
| Self-Organised Task Allocation in a Group of Robots | p. 389 |
| Distributed Algorithms for Dispersion in Indoor Environments Using a Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots | p. 399 |
| Motion Coordination | |
| Optimal Design Methodology for an AGV Transportation System by Using the Queuing Network Theory | p. 411 |
| Control of Vehicle Cooperative Behavior in Non-Signalized Intersection | p. 421 |
| High-Level Modeling of Cooperative Mobile Robot Systems | p. 431 |
| Distributed Control | |
| Lateral and Longitudinal Stability for Decentralized Formation Control | p. 443 |
| Decentralized Cooperative Object Transportation by Multiple Mobile Robots with a Pushing Leader | p. 453 |
| Applications | |
| Attentive Workbench: An Intelligent Production Cell Supporting Human Workers | p. 465 |
| Development of a Forward-Hemispherical Vision Sensor for Remote Control of a Small Mobile Robot and for Acquisition of Visual-Information | p. 475 |
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