| Current State of the Art in Distributed Autonomous Mobile Robotics | p. 3 |
| Control Architecture for an Underwater Robot Society | p. 15 |
| Ayllu: Distributed Port-arbitrated Behavior-based Control | p. 25 |
| An Architecture for Reactive Cooperation of Mobile Distributed Robots | p. 35 |
| A Framework for Distributed Simulation of Multirobot Systems: The VLAB Experience | p. 45 |
| Robots that Cooperatively Enhance Their Plans | p. 55 |
| Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing by Intelligent Data Carriers System | p. 69 |
| Collective Grounded Representations for Robots | p. 79 |
| Effects of Static and Dynamic Variety in the Character of Robots on Group Intelligence of Multi-robot System | p. 89 |
| Communication Fault Tolerance in Distributed Robotic Systems | p. 99 |
| Blazing a Trail: Insect-inspired Resource Transportation by a Robot Team | p. 111 |
| Artificial Emotion and Social Robotics | p. 121 |
| The Use of Biologically-Inspired Rules to Control a Collective Robotic Arm | p. 131 |
| Micro Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System using Shape Memory Alloy | p. 145 |
| Autonomous and Self-Sufficient CONRO Modules for Reconfigurable Robots | p. 155 |
| Motion Planning for a Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic System | p. 165 |
| Distributed Multi-Robot Localization | p. 179 |
| Distance Measurement in Multi-Robot Systems based on Time Shared Scheduling | p. 189 |
| Retative Position Localizing System for Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots in Distributed Robotic System | p. 199 |
| Development of a Multiple Mobile Robot System Controlled by a Human - Realization of Object Command Level | p. 209 |
| Autonomous Mobile Robots and Distributed Exploratory Missions | p. 221 |
| Terrain Model Acquisition by Mobile Robot Teams and n-Connectivity | p. 231 |
| Graph-Based Exploration using Multiple Robots | p. 241 |
| Landmark-based Matching Algorithm for Cooperative Mapping by Autonomous Robots | p. 251 |
| Comparing Distributed Exploration Strategies with Simulated and Real Autonomous Robots | p. 261 |
| Distributed Sensing and Data Collection via Broken Ad Hoc Wireless Connected Networks of Mobile Robots | p. 273 |
| Experiments and Results in Multimodal, Distributed, Robotic Perception | p. 283 |
| Cooperative Sentry Vehicles and Differential GPS Leapfrog | p. 293 |
| Motion Coordination in Formations of Multiple Mobile Robots Using a Potential Field Approach | p. 305 |
| Fly Spy: Lightweight Localization and Target Tracking for Cooperating Air and Ground Robots | p. 315 |
| Dynamic Robot-Target Assignment - Dependence of Recovering from Breakdowns on the Speed of the Selection Process | p. 325 |
| Fuzzy Control of Distance and Motion Tracking Applied to Cooperative Autonomous Robots | p. 335 |
| Broadcast of Local Eligibility for Multi-Target Observation | p. 347 |
| A Communication-Free Behavior for Docking Mobile Robots | p. 357 |
| On Behavior Classification in Adversarial Environments | p. 371 |
| Learning-Based Task Allocation in Decentralized Multirobot System | p. 381 |
| Multi-Robot Learning in a Cooperative Observation Task | p. 391 |
| Ultra-Fast Neural Network Training for Robot Learning from Uncertain Data | p. 403 |
| Object Transport Using Multiple Mobile Robots With Pin Joint Endeffectors | p. 417 |
| Distributed Motion Generation for Two Omni-Directional Robots Carrying a Ladder | p. 427 |
| Experimental Manufacturing of Object Transfer System "Magic Carpet" Consisting of Actuator Array with Autonomous Decentralized Control | p. 437 |
| A Control Method of a Multiple Non-holonomic Robot System for Cooperative Object Transportation | p. 447 |
| Structural Characteristics of Intelligence and Embodiment in Two-Mobile Robots System | p. 457 |
| From Distributed Robot Perception to Human Topology: A Learning Model | p. 469 |
| Reactive Sensor Networks | p. 471 |
| Cooperation of Multiple Robots to Solve Maze Tasks | p. 473 |
| Localizing a Wireless Node in a Multi-Agent System using Kalman Filtering | p. 475 |
| Learning Cooperation from Human-Robot Interaction | p. 477 |
| Susceptibility of Swarm Control Algorithms to Agent Failure | p. 479 |
| The MICRobES Project, an Experimental Approach towards "Open Collective Robotics" | p. 481 |
| Dynamic Task Selection: A Simple Structure for Multirobot system | p. 483 |
| Author Index | p. 485 |
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