As a new strategy to realize the goal of flexible, robust, fault-tolerant robotic systems, the distributed autonomous approach has quickly established itself as one of the fastest growing fields in robotics.

1: Introduction.- Trends of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems.- Manufacturing in the Future - Some Topics of IMS -.- 2: Distributed System Design.- Hierarchical Control Architecture with Learning and Adaptation Ability for Cellular Robotic System.- Optimization of the Distributed Systems by Autonomous Cooperation - Distributed Maximum Principle -.- Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery in an Autonomous Robot with Distributed Controlled Components.- A Human Interface for Interacting with and Monitoring the Multi-Agent Robotic System.- 3: Distributed Sensing.- Real Time Robot Tracking System with Two Independent Lasers.- Fusing Image Information on the Basis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- 4: Distributed Planning and Control.- Rule Generation and Generalization by Inductive Decision Tree and Reinforcement Learning.- Fusion Strategy for Time Series Prediction and Knowledge based Reasoning for Intelligent Communication.- On a Deadlock-free Characteristic of the On-line and Decentralized Path-planning for Multiple Automata.- Distributed Strategy-making Method in Multiple Mobile Robot System.- Fully Distributed Traffic Regulation and Control for Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots Operating in Discrete Space.- 5: Cooperative Operation.- A Medium Access Protocol (CSMA/CD-W) Supporting Wireless Inter-Robot Communication in Distributed Robotic Systems.- The Design of Communication Network for Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System.- A Multi Agent Distributed Host to Host to Robot Real-Time Communication Environment.- Coordinating Multiple Mobile Robots Through Local Inter-Robot Communication.- Negotiation Method for Collaborating Team Organization among Multiple Robots.- Resource Sharing in Distributed Robotic Systems based on A Wireless Medium Access Protocol (CSMA/CD-W).- An Experimental Realization of Cooperative Behavior of Multi-Robot System.- 6: Self-Organization.- Self Organization of a Mechanical System.- Evolutional Self-organization of Distributed Autonomous Systems.- Intention Model and Coordination for Collective Behavior in Group Robotic System.- High-order Strictly Local Swarms.- Self-Organization of an Uniformly Distributed Visuo-Motor Map through Controlling the Spatial Variation.- 7: Multi-Robot Behavior.- Behavior Control of Insects by Artificial Electrical Stimulation.- Find Path Problem of Autonomous Robots by Vibrating Potential Method.- Mutual-Entrainment-Based Communication Field in Distributed Autonomous Robotic System - Autonomous coordinative control in unpredictable environment -.- Cooperative Behavior of Parent-Children Type Mobile Robots.- Driving and Confinement of A Group in A Small Space.- 8: Coordinated Control.- Cooperative System between a Position-controlled Robot and a Crane with Three Wires.- Manipulability Indices in Multi-wire Driven Mechanisms.- Cooperating Multiple Behavior-Based Robots for Object Manipulation - System and Cooperation Strategy -.- Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System - Assembly of New Type Cells as a Dual-Peg-in-Hole Problem -.

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