Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Trends of Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems....Pages 3-8
Manufacturing in the Future -Some Topics of IMS-....Pages 9-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Hierarchical Control Architecture with Learning and Adaptation Ability for Cellular Robotic System....Pages 17-28
Optimization of the Distributed Systems by Autonomous Cooperation —Distributed Maximum Principle—....Pages 29-40
Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery in an Autonomous Robot with Distributed Controlled Components....Pages 41-49
A Human Interface for Interacting with and Monitoring the Multi-Agent Robotic System....Pages 50-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Real Time Robot Tracking System with Two Independent Lasers....Pages 65-77
Fusing Image Information on the Basis of the Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 78-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
Rule Generation and Generalization by Inductive Decision Tree and Reinforcement Learning....Pages 91-98
Fusion Strategy for Time Series Prediction and Knowledge based Reasoning for Intelligent Communication....Pages 99-110
On a Deadlock-free Characteristic of the On-line and Decentralized Path-planning for Multiple Automata....Pages 111-122
Distributed Strategy-making Method in Multiple Mobile Robot System....Pages 123-133
Fully Distributed Traffic Regulation and Control for Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots Operating in Discrete Space....Pages 134-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
A Medium Access Protocol (CSMA/CD-W) Supporting Wireless Inter-Robot Communication in Distributed Robotic Systems....Pages 165-175
The Design of Communication Network for Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System....Pages 176-184
A Multi Agent Distributed Host to Host to Robot Real-Time Communication Environment....Pages 185-189
Coordinating Multiple Mobile Robots Through Local Inter-Robot Communication....Pages 190-198
Negotiation Method for Collaborating Team Organization among Multiple Robots....Pages 199-210
Resource Sharing in Distributed Robotic Systems Based on A Wireless Medium Access Protocol (CSMA/CD-W)....Pages 211-223
An Experimental Realization of Cooperative Behavior of Multi-Robot System....Pages 224-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Self Organization of a Mechanical System....Pages 237-242
Evolutional Self-organization of Distributed Autonomous Systems....Pages 243-254
Intention Model and Coordination for Collective Behavior in Group Robotic System....Pages 255-266
High-order Strictly Local Swarms....Pages 267-278
Self-Organization of an Uniformly Distributed Visuo-Motor Map through Controlling the Spatial Variation....Pages 279-288
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Behavior Control of Insects by Artificial Electrical Stimulation....Pages 291-302
Find Path Problem of Autonomous Robots by Vibrating Potential Method....Pages 303-309
Mutual-Entrainment-Based Communication Field in Distributed Autonomous Robotic System — Autonomous coordinative control in unpredictable environment —....Pages 310-321
Cooperative Behavior of Parent-Children Type Mobile Robots....Pages 322-333
Driving and Confinement of A Group in A Small Space....Pages 334-344
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Cooperative System between a Position-controlled Robot and a Crane with Three Wires....Pages 347-358
Manipulability Indices in Multi-wire Driven Mechanisms....Pages 359-370
Cooperating Multiple Behavior-Based Robots for Object Manipulation....Pages 371-382
Dynamically Reconfigurable Robotic System — Assembly of New Type Cells as a Dual-Peg-in-hole Problem —....Pages 383-394