Trends and Perspective of Researches on Control System Theory.- Collective Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems.- Reconfiguration Method for a Distributed Mechanical System.- Shock Absorbers and Shock Transformers: Comparing the Collision Behavior of a Mobile Robot Equipped with Different Bumper Types.- Towards a Generic Computer Simulation Platform for Distributed Robotic System Development and Experiments.- Cooperation between a Human Operator and Multiple Robots for Maintenance Tasks at a Distance.- Fast 3D Simulation of Snake Robot Motion.- GMD-Snake: A Semi-Autonomous Snake-like Robot.- Development of a Snake-like Robot-Design Concept and Simulation of a Planar Movement Mode.- Multi-Robot Team Design for Real-World Applications.- An Application Concept of an Underwater Robot Society.- The Modeling of the Team Strategy of Robotic Soccer as a Multi-Agent Robot System.- A Model of Group Choice for Artificial Society.- Distributed Autonomous Formation Control of Mobile Robot Groups by Swarm-Based Pattern Generation.- Affordance in Autonomous Robot; Grounding Mechanism of Sensory Inputs.- Iterative Transportation Planning of Multiple Objects by Cooperative Mobile Robots.- Experimental Characteristics of Multiple-Robots Behaviors in Communication Network Expansion and Object-Fetching.- Managing Different Types of Interactions among Robots.- Amoeba Like Grouping Behavior for Autonomous Robots Using Vibrating Potential Field (Obstacle Avoidance on Uneven Road).- Dissipative Structure Network for Collective Autonomy: Spatial Decomposition of Robotic Group.- Cooperative Acceleration of Task Performance: Foraging Behavior of Interacting Multi-Robots System.- Asynchronous and Synchronous Cooperation; Demonstrated by Deadlock Resolution in a Distributed Robot System.-Cooperative Sweeping in Environments with Movable Obstacles.- Integration of Distributed Sensing Information in DARS based on Evidential Reasoning.- Implementing an Automated Reasoning System for Multi-Robot Cooperation.- Distributed Fail-Safe Structure for Collaborations of Multiple Manipulators.- Multi-Legged Vehicle Based on Mimic-Reactive Architecture.- Adaptability of a Decentralized Kinematic Control Algorithm to Reactive Motion under Microgravity.- Interactive Human-Robot Pole Balancing Utilizing Multiple Viìtual Fuzzy Agents.- Cooperative Operation of Two Mobile Robots.- A New Approach to Multiple Robots’ Behavior Design for Cooperative Object Manipulation.- Robot Behavior and Information System for Multiple Object Handling Robots.- Cooperative Strategy for Multiple Position-controlled Mobile Robots.- Cooperative Navigation among Multiple Mobile Robots.- Self-Localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots Using Intelligent Data Carriers.- Fusion of Range Images and Intensity Images Measured from Multiple View Points.- A Robot Duo for Cooperative Autonomous Navigation.- Appendix Related Research Topics.- Granularity and Scaling in Modularity Design for Manipulator Systems.- Shared Experience Learning on a pair of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robot by Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Inference and Multi-Sensor Fusion.- Genetic Approach for Autonomous Learning and Structural Evolution.- A Field Communication System for Distributed Autonomous Robots; Investigation of Cooperative Behavior on Messenger Robots Problem.- Power Grasping by Distributed Autonomous Control.- Acquiring Co-operation without Communication by Reinforcement Learning and Dynamics Identification.- BUGS: An Autonomous “Basic UXO Gathering System” Approach in MinefieldCountermeasure & UXO Clearance II.- Consideration on Conceptual Design of Inter Robot Communications Network for Mobile Robot System; Concept of Implicit Communication and how to realize with current technology.

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