DARS is now a well-established conference that gathers every two years the main researchers in Distributed Robotics systems. Even if the field is growing, it has been maintained a one-track conference in order to enforce effective exchanges between the main researchers in the field.

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

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