Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8 (Hardcover, 2009)

Distributed Sensing.- Multi-Robot Uniform Frequency Coverage of Significant Locations in the Environment.- Measuring the Accuracy of Distributed Algorithms on Multi-robot Systems with Dynamic Network Topologies.- Network Topology Reconfiguration Based on Risk Management.- Energy-Efficient Distributed Target Tracking Using Wireless Relay Robots.- Cooperative Object Tracking with Mobile Robotic Sensor Network.- Deployment and Management of Wireless Sensor Network Using Mobile Robots for Gathering Environmental Information.- Global Pose Estimation of Multiple Cameras with Particle Filters.- Mobiligence.- Motion Control of Dense Robot Colony Using Thermodynamics.- Modeling of Self-organized Competition Hierarchy with Body Weight Development in Larval Cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus.- Intelligent Mobility Playing the Role of Impulse Absorption.- Ambient Intelligence.- Cognitive Ontology: A Concept Structure for Dynamic Event Interpretation and Description from Visual Scene.- Subjective Timing Control in Synchronized Motion of Humans.- Robot Software Framework Using Object and Aspect Oriented Programming Paradigm.- Distributed Context Assessment for Robots in Intelligent Environments.- Swarm Intelligence.- Jamology: Physics of Self-driven Particles and Toward Solution of All Jams.- Towards an Engineering Science of Robot Foraging.- A Modular Robot Driven by Protoplasmic Streaming.- A Distributed Scalable Approach to Formation Control in Multi-robot Systems.- Guiding a Robot Flock via Informed Robots.- Theoretical and Empirical Study of Pedestrian Outflow through an Exit.- Understanding the Potential Impact of Multiple Robots in Odor Source Localization.- Analyzing Multi-agent Activity Logs Using Process Mining Techniques.- Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities.- Multi-robot Cooperation.- Robotic Self-replication, Self-diagnosis, and Self-repair: Probabilistic Considerations.- Analysis of Multi-robot Play Effectiveness and of Distributed Incidental Play Recognition.- Sparsing of Information Matrix for Practical Application of SLAM for Autonomous Robots.- Trajectory Generation for Multiple Robots of a Car Transportation System.- Distributed Control and Coordination of Cooperative Mobile Manipulator Systems.- Rearrangement Task by Multiple Robots Using a Territorial Approach.- A Task Planner for an Autonomous Social Robot.- A Stochastic Clustering Auction (SCA) for Centralized and Distributed Task Allocation in Multi-agent Teams.- Corridors for Robot Team Navigation.- Practical Control of Modular Robots.- Efficient Distributed Reinforcement Learning through Agreement.- Morphology Independent Learning in Modular Robots.- Reconfigurable Modular Robots Adaptively Transforming a Mechanical Structure (Numerical Expression of Transformation Criteria of "CHOBIE II" and Motion Experiments).- Toward Flexible and Scalable Self-reconfiguration of M-TRAN.- Reconfigurable Teams: Cooperative Goal Seeking with Self-Reconfigurable Robots.- "Deformable Wheel"-A Self-recovering Modular Rolling Track.- Exploit Morphology to Simplify Docking of Self-reconfigurable Robots.- Reconfigurable Modular Universal Unit (MUU) for Mobile Robots.- Multi-robot Systems.- Design and Analysis for AGV Systems Using Competitive Co-evolution.- Cooperative Control of Multi-robot Nonholonomic Systems with Dynamics Uncertainties and Control Time-Delays.- Guaranteed-Performance Multi-robot Routing under Limited Communication Range.- Pipeless Batch Plant with Operating Robots for a Multiproduct Production System.- Control Methodology of Transfer Crane with Look-Ahead Rule in Harbor Transportation System.- A Novel Marsupial Robot Society: Towards Long-Term Autonomy.- Predicting the Movements of Robot Teams Using Generative Models.- Interactive Mobile Robotic Drinking Glasses.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Adaptive Supervisory Control of a Communication Robot That Approaches Visitors.- Behavior Design of a Human-Interactive Robot through Paral