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Distributed Control of Multi-robot Teleoperation

Author : Yuan Yang
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Download or read book Distributed Control of Multi-robot Teleoperation written by Yuan Yang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frequent occurrences of natural and technological disasters have incurred grave loss of life and damage to property. For mitigating the miserable aftermaths, multi-robot teleoperation systems have been developed and deployed to cooperate with human rescuers in post-earthquake scenarios, and to sample, monitor and clean pollutants in marine environments. With a bidirectional communication channel, human users can deliver commands/requests to guide the motions of the remote robots, and can receive visual/audio feedback to supervise the status of the remote environment, throughout multi-robot teleoperation. Furthermore, the remote robots can send force feedback to human operators to improve their situational awareness and task performance. This way, a closed-loop multi-robot teleoperation system becomes bilateral in which coordinated robots physically interact and exchange energy with human users, and hence needs to be rendered passive for safe human-robot interaction. Beyond guaranteeing closed-loop passivity, the control of a bilateral multi-robot teleoperation system faces two challenging problems: preserving the communication connectivity of the remote robots; and dispatching the teleoperation authority to multiple human users. Because wireless transmission of radio/acoustic signals between the remote robots is constrained by their distances, bilateral multi-robot teleoperation control must coordinate the motions of the remote robots appropriately so as to maintain their communication network connected. Further, multiple human users can send possibly conflicting teleoperation commands to the remote robots, a distributed authority dispatch algorithm is thus needed for the remote robot network to recognize and follow the most urgent user commands at runtime. This thesis develops an energy shaping strategy to preserve the connectivity of the remote robots, and to dispatch control authority over the remote robots to human users, during bilateral multi-robot teleoperation. Chapter 1 introduces the application background of multi-robot teleoperation as well as the state-of-the-art development in related research areas. In Chapter 2, a dynamic interconnection and damping strategy is proposed to reduce and constrain the position error between the local and remote robots to any prescribed bound during bilateral teleoperation. Chapter 3 derives a gradient plus damping control from a bounded potential function and then unifies it into an indirect coupling framework to preserve all communication links of an autonomous multi-robot system with time-varying delays and bounded actuation. On these bases, Chapter 4 develops a dynamic feedforward-feedback passivation strategy to preserve all communication links and thus the connectivity of the tree network of the remote robots while rendering the bilateral multi-robot teleoperation close loop passive. Specifically, by blending the sliding variable in Chapter 2 with the bounded potential function in Chapter 3, the dynamic passivation strategy decomposes the dynamics of the remote robots into a power-preserving interconnection of two subsystems, and regulates the energy behaviour of each subsystem to preserve the tree communication connectivity of the remote robots. To handle time-varying communication delays, the strategy further transforms the communication channels between the local and remote robots into a dynamic controller for passivating bilateral teleoperation. Superior to existing controls, the strategy using a bounded potential function can circumvent numerical instability, reduce noise sensitivity and facilitate future extensions to accommodate robot actuator saturation. On the other side, Chapter 5 designs a distributed and exponentially convergent winners-take-all authority dispatch algorithm that activates the teleoperation of only human users with the most urgent requests in real time. After formulating the problem as a constrained quadratic program, we employ an exact penalty function method to construct a distributed primal-dual dynamical system that can solve the problem at an exponential rate. Because the equilibrium of the system changes with user requests, we then interconnect the dynamical system with physical robot dynamics in a power-preserving way, and passivate closed-loop multi-robot teleoperation using multiple storage functions from a switched system perspective. Finally, Chapter 6 provides some conclusive remarks and two problems regarding connectivity preservation and authority dispatch for future study.

Distributed Control of Multi-agent Systems Under Communication Constraints

Author : Syed Ali Ajwad
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Download or read book Distributed Control of Multi-agent Systems Under Communication Constraints written by Syed Ali Ajwad and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-agent systems (MAS) have gained much popularity due to their vast range of applications. MAS is deployed to achieve more complex goals which could not be realized by a single agent alone. Communication and information exchange among the agents in a MAS is crucial to control its cooperative behavior. Agents share their information with their neighbors to reach a common objective, thus do not require any central monitoring unit. However, the communication among the agents is subject to various practical constraints. These constraints include irregular and asynchronous sampling periods and the availability of partial states only. Such constraints pose significant theoretical and practical challenges. In this thesis, we investigate two fundamental problems related to distributed cooperative control, namely consensus and formation control, of double-integrator MAS under these constraints. It is considered that each agent in the network can measure and transmit its position state only at nonuniform and asynchronous sampling instants. Moreover, the velocity and acceleration are not available. First, we study the problem of distributed control of leader-following consensus. A continuous-discrete time observer based leader-following algorithm is proposed. The observer estimates the position and velocity of the agent and its neighbor in continuous time from the available sampled position data. Then these estimated states are used for the computation of the control input. Both fixed and switching topology scenarios are discussed. Secondly, a consensus based distributed formation tracking protocol is designed to achieve both fixed and time-varying formation patterns. Collision avoidance problem is also studied in this thesis. An Artificial Potential Function (APF) based collision avoidance mechanism is incorporated with the formation tracking algorithm to prevent collisions between the agents while converging to a desired position. Finally, the proposed algorithms are applied on a multi-robot network, consisting of differential drive robots using Robot Operating System (ROS). A new scheme is proposed to deal with nonholonomic constraints of the robot. Efficiency of the designed algorithms and their effectiveness in real world applications are shown through both simulation and hardware results.

Distributed Control of Multi-robot Teams

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Total Pages : 6 pages
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Download or read book Distributed Control of Multi-robot Teams written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research addresses the problem of achieving fault tolerant cooperation within small- to medium-sized teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. The author describes a novel behavior-based, fully distributed architecture, called ALLIANCE, that utilizes adaptive action selection to achieve fault tolerant cooperative control. The robots in this architecture possess a variety of high-level functions that they can perform during a mission, and must at all times select an appropriate action based on the requirements of the mission, the activities of other robots, the current environmental conditions, and their own internal states. Since such cooperative teams often work in dynamic and unpredictable environments, the software architecture allows the team members to respond robustly and reliably to unexpected environmental changes and modifications in the robot team that may occur due to mechanical failure, the learning of new skills, or the addition or removal of robots from the team by human intervention. After presenting ALLIANCE, they describe the implementation of this architecture on a team of physical mobile robots performing a cooperative baton passing task. These experiments illustrate the ability of ALLIANCE to achieve adaptive, fault-tolerant cooperative control amidst dynamic changes during the task.

Application of Distributed Containment Control to Multi-robot Systems

Author : Stefan Tauchnitz
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Application of Distributed Containment Control to Multi-robot Systems written by Stefan Tauchnitz and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author : Florea, Andrei George
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522522816
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities by : Florea, Andrei George

Download or read book Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Florea, Andrei George and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in bio-inspired computation have impacted multiple fields and created opportunities for new applications. In recent years, these techniques have been increasingly integrated into robotic systems. Membrane Computing for Distributed Control of Robotic Swarms: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an innovative reference source for the latest perspectives on biologically-inspired computation techniques for robot design and control. Highlighting a range of pivotal topics such as software engineering, simulation tools, and robotic security, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in the role of membrane computing in mobile robots.

Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments

Author : Yanhao He
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832554408
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Book Synopsis Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments by : Yanhao He

Download or read book Distributed Optimisation for Multi-Robot Cooperative Manipulation Control in Dynamic Environments written by Yanhao He and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the manipulation tasks for robotic systems become more and more complicated, multi-robot cooperation has been attracting much attention recently. Furthermore, under the trend of human-robot co-existence, collision-free motion control is now also desired on multi-robot groups. This dissertation aims to design a novel distributed optimal control framework to deal with multi-robot cooperative manipulation of rigid objects in dynamic environments. Besides object transportation, the control scheme also tackles obstacle avoidance, joint-space performance optimisation and internal force suppression. The proposed control framework has a two-layer structure, with a distributed optimisation algorithm in the kinematic layer for generating proper joint configuration references, followed by a robot motion controller in the dynamic control layer to fulfil the reference. An indirect and a direct distributed optimisation method are developed for the kinematic layer, both of which are computationally and communicationally efficient. In the dynamic control layer, impedance control is employed for safe physical interaction. As another highlight, abundant experiments carried out on a multi-arm test bench have demonstrated the effectiveness of the presented control schemes under various environmental and task settings. The recorded computation time shows the applicability of the control framework in practice.

Formation Control

Author : Hyo-Sung Ahn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030151875
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Formation Control written by Hyo-Sung Ahn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph introduces recent developments in formation control of distributed-agent systems. Eschewing the traditional concern with the dynamic characteristics of individual agents, the book proposes a treatment that studies the formation control problem in terms of interactions among agents including factors such as sensing topology, communication and actuation topologies, and computations. Keeping pace with recent technological advancements in control, communications, sensing and computation that have begun to bring the applications of distributed-systems theory out of the industrial sphere and into that of day-to-day life, this monograph provides distributed control algorithms for a group of agents that may behave together. Unlike traditional control laws that usually require measurements with respect to a global coordinate frame and communications between a centralized operation center and agents, this book provides control laws that require only relative measurements and communications between agents without interaction with a centralized operator. Since the control algorithms presented in this book do not require any global sensing and any information exchanges with a centralized operation center, they can be realized in a fully distributed way, which significantly reduces the operation and implementation costs of a group of agents. Formation Control will give both students and researchers interested in pursuing this field a good grounding on which to base their work.

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

Author : Roderich Groß
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319730088
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Roderich Groß and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed robotics is an interdisciplinary and rapidly growing area, combining research in computer science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical engineering. Distributed robotic systems can autonomously solve complex problems while operating in highly unstructured real-world environments. They are expected to play a major role in addressing future societal needs, for example, by improving environmental impact assessment, food supply, transportation, manufacturing, security, and emergency and rescue services. The goal of the International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) is to provide a forum for scientific advances in the theory and practice of distributed autonomous robotic systems. This volume of proceedings include 47 original contributions presented at the 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2016), which was held at the Natural History Museum in London, UK, from November 7th to 9th, 2016. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from around the world, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distributed robotic systems. The book is organized into seven parts, representative of critical long-term and emerging research thrusts in the multi-robot community: Distributed Coverage and Exploration; Multi-Robot Control; Multi-Robot Estimation; Multi-Robot Planning; Modular Robots and Smart Materials; Swarm Robotics; and Multi-Robot Systems in Applications.

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

Author : Alcherio Martinoli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642327230
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Alcherio Martinoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing, interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, communication and control systems, and electrical and mechanical engineering. The goal of the Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) is to exchange and stimulate research ideas to realize advanced distributed robotic systems. This volume of proceedings includes 43 original contributions presented at the Tenth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2010), which was held in November 2010 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. The selected papers in this volume are authored by leading researchers from Asia, Europa, and the Americas, thereby providing a broad coverage and perspective of the state-of-the-art technologies, algorithms, system architectures, and applications in distributed robotic systems. The book is organized into four parts, each representing one critical and long-term research thrust in the multi-robot community: distributed sensing (Part I); localization, navigation, and formations (Part II); coordination algorithms and formal methods (Part III); modularity, distributed manipulation, and platforms (Part IV).

Motion Control

Author : Federico Casolo
Publisher : IntechOpen
ISBN 13 : 9789537619558
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Motion Control written by Federico Casolo and published by IntechOpen. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reveals many different aspects of motion control and a wide multiplicity of approaches to the problem as well. Despite the number of examples, however, this volume is not meant to be exhaustive: it intends to offer some original insights for all researchers who will hopefully make their experience available for a forthcoming publication on the subject.

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks

Author : Francesco Bullo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831474
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Control of Robotic Networks written by Francesco Bullo and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of tools for understanding coordination algorithms, determining their correctness, and assessing their complexity; and it analyzes various cooperative strategies for tasks such as consensus, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, deployment, and boundary estimation. The unifying theme is a formal model for robotic networks that explicitly incorporates their communication, sensing, control, and processing capabilities--a model that in turn leads to a common formal language to describe and analyze coordination algorithms. Written for first- and second-year graduate students in control and robotics, the book will also be useful to researchers in control theory, robotics, distributed algorithms, and automata theory. The book provides explanations of the basic concepts and main results, as well as numerous examples and exercises. Self-contained exposition of graph-theoretic concepts, distributed algorithms, and complexity measures for processor networks with fixed interconnection topology and for robotic networks with position-dependent interconnection topology Detailed treatment of averaging and consensus algorithms interpreted as linear iterations on synchronous networks Introduction of geometric notions such as partitions, proximity graphs, and multicenter functions Detailed treatment of motion coordination algorithms for deployment, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, and boundary estimation

Self-coordinating Distributed Control Algorithms for Multi-robot Systems

Author : Alessio Turetta
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Total Pages : 101 pages
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Book Synopsis Self-coordinating Distributed Control Algorithms for Multi-robot Systems by : Alessio Turetta

Download or read book Self-coordinating Distributed Control Algorithms for Multi-robot Systems written by Alessio Turetta and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems

Author : Eduardo Montijano
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319156993
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems by : Eduardo Montijano

Download or read book Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems written by Eduardo Montijano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph introduces novel responses to the different problems that arise when multiple robots need to execute a task in cooperation, each robot in the team having a monocular camera as its primary input sensor. Its central proposition is that a consistent perception of the world is crucial for the good development of any multi-robot application. The text focuses on the high-level problem of cooperative perception by a multi-robot system: the idea that, depending on what each robot sees and its current situation, it will need to communicate these things to its fellows whenever possible to share what it has found and keep updated by them in its turn. However, in any realistic scenario, distributed solutions to this problem are not trivial and need to be addressed from as many angles as possible. Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems covers a variety of related topics such as: • distributed consensus algorithms; • data association and robustness problems; • convergence speed; and • cooperative mapping. The book first puts forward algorithmic solutions to these problems and then supports them with empirical validations working with real images. It provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the problems associated to the perception of the world by a team of cooperating robots with onboard cameras. Academic researchers and graduate students working with multi-robot systems, or investigating problems of distributed control or computer vision and cooperative perception will find this book of material assistance with their studies.

High-Performance Adaptive Control of Teleoperation Systems

Author : Di-Hua Zhai
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000865576
Total Pages : 1984 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis High-Performance Adaptive Control of Teleoperation Systems by : Di-Hua Zhai

Download or read book High-Performance Adaptive Control of Teleoperation Systems written by Di-Hua Zhai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 1984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a unified switched-control framework, this book investigates the high-performance control designs and theoretic analyses for teleoperation systems, including the joint space and task space teleoperations, the homogeneous and heterogeneous teleoperations, and the single-master single-slave and multi-master multi-slave teleoperations. The book begins with an introduction to the concepts and challenges of networked teleoperation systems. Then, it investigates a new adaptive control framework based on auxiliary switched filters for the bilateral teleoperation systems to handle the model uncertainty and non-passive external forces. To overcome the input constraints of robotic systems, this adaptive method is also extended to the anti-windup adaptive control case. Furthermore, to apply to multi-robot remote collaboration scenarios and heterogeneous teleoperations, two tele-coordination methods and an adaptive semi-autonomous control method are respectively developed. Finally, the authors examine two finite-time control schemes and two types of improved prescribed performance controls for teleoperation systems to improve the transient-state and steady-state synchronization performances. This title will be an essential reference for researchers and engineers interested in teleoperation, robotic systems, and nonlinear control systems. It would also prove useful to graduate students in the fields of science, engineering, and computer science.

Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams

Author : Ashton Roza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030960870
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams written by Ashton Roza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal. It provides novel solutions to foundational coordination problems, including distributed algorithms to make quadrotor helicopters rendezvous and to make ground vehicles move in formation along circles or straight lines. The majority of the algorithms presented in this book can be implemented using on-board cameras. The book begins with an introduction to coordination problems, such as rendezvous of flying robots, and modelling. It then provides a solid theoretical background in basic stability, graph theory and control primitives. The book discusses the algorithmic solutions for numerous distributed control problems, focusing primarily on flying robotics and kinematic unicycles. Finally, the book looks to the future, and suggests areas discussed which could be pursued in further research. This book will provide practitioners, researchers and students in the field of control and robotics new insights in distributed multi-agent systems.

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

Author : Hajime Asama
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431682759
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems written by Hajime Asama and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This book is one of the first to devote itself solely to this exciting area of research, covering such topics as self-organization, communication and coordination, multi-robot manipulation and control, distributed system design, distributed sensing, intelligent manufacturing systems, and group behavior. The fundamental technologies and system architectures of distributed autonomous robotic systems are expounded in detail, along with the latest research findings. This book should prove indispensable not only to those involved with robotic engineering but also to those in the fields of artificial intelligence, self-organizing systems, and coordinated control.

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 4

Author : L.E. Parker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431679197
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 4 written by L.E. Parker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2000) dealt with new strategies to realize complex, modular, robust, and fault-tolerant robotic systems. Technologies, algorithms, and system architectures for distributed autonomous robotic systems were presented and discussed during the meeting. DARS 2000 was truly an international event, with participants represent ing eleven countries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. All of the papers in this volume were presented at DARS 2000, and were selected on the basis of peer re views to ensure quality and relevance. These papers have the common goal of con tributing solutions to realize robust and intelligent multirobot systems. The topics of the symposium address a wide range of issues that are important in the development of decentralized robotic systems. These topics include architec tures, communication, biological inspirations, reconfigurable robots, localization, exploration and mapping, distributed sensing, multi robot motion coordination, tar get assignment and tracking, multirobot learning, and cooperative object transport. DARS clearly requires a broad area of interdisciplinary technologies related not only to robotics and computer engineering, but also to biology and psychology. The DARS symposium is the leading established conference on distributed au tonomous systems. The First, Second, and Third International Symposia on Distrib uted Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '92, DARS '94, and DARS '96) were held at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan.