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Author International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (16th : 2022 : Montbéliard, France)

Title Distributed autonomous robotic systems : 16th International Symposium / Julien Bourgeois, Jamie Paik, Benoît Piranda, Justin Werfel, Sabine Hauert, Alyssa Pierson, Heiko Hamann, Tin Lun Lam, Fumitoshi Matsuno, Negar Mehr, Abdallah Makhoul, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 564 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Springer proceedings in advanced robotics, 2511-1264 ; 28
Springer proceedings in advanced robotics, 2511-1264 28
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- How Can We Understand Multi-Robot Systems? a User Study to Compare Implicit and Explicit Communication Modalities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methods -- 2.1 Communication Modalities -- 2.2 Experimental Task -- 2.3 Experimental Setup -- 2.4 Participants -- 2.5 Data Collection and Analysis -- 3 Results -- 3.1 Correctness of Responses -- 3.2 Response Time -- 3.3 Subjective Reporting -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- The Benefits of Interaction Constraints in Distributed Autonomous Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Collective Learning in Multi-agent Systems
3 A Three-Valued Model for Collective Learning -- 4 Simulation Environment -- 5 The Networks Underlying Agent Interactions -- 6 Multi-agent Simulation Experiments -- 6.1 Convergence Results for Physical Networks -- 7 Constraining the Interaction Network -- 7.1 Convergence Results for Constrained Interaction Networks -- 8 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Outlining the Design Space of eXplainable Swarm (xSwarm): Experts' Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background and Related Work -- 3 Background and Related Work -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Study Procedure and Design -- 3.3 Analysis
4 Results -- 4.1 Explanation Categories -- 4.2 Challenges Faced by Swarm Experts -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- VMAS: A Vectorized Multi-agent Simulator for Collective Robot Learning -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 The VMAS Platform -- 4 Multi-robot Scenarios -- 5 Comparison with MPE -- 6 Experiments and Benchmarks -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- FLAM: Fault Localization and Mapping -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work and Background -- 2.1 Fault Detection -- 2.2 Risk Awareness -- 2.3 Distributed Storage -- 3 System Model -- 3.1 Risk Modelling -- 3.2 Feature Vectors
3.3 Fault Detection -- 3.4 Distributed Belief Map -- 3.5 Implementation -- 4 Simulations -- 4.1 Experimental Setup -- 4.2 Results -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Social Exploration in Robot Swarms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Simulation and Local Swarm Behaviours -- 3.2 Generating Random Environments -- 3.3 Agents with ̀̀Happiness'' -- 3.4 Social Exploration Algorithm -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Performance in Randomly Generated Environments -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References
Stochastic Nonlinear Ensemble Modeling and Control for Robot Team Environmental Monitoring -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Formulation -- 2.1 Task Topology -- 2.2 Ensemble Model -- 3 Ensemble Model Control -- 3.1 Feedback Controller -- 3.2 Distributed Microscopic Algorithm -- 4 Simulation and Experimental Setup -- 5 Results -- 6 Discussion -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- A Decentralized Cooperative Approach to Gentle Human Transportation with Mobile Robots Based on Tactile Feedback -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Flexible Tactile Sensors and Methods of Acquiring Force Information
Summary This book of the SPAR series contains 39 scientific articles presented in the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems conference organized in November 28-30, 2022, in Montbéliard, France. The contributions are covering a broad scope of topics within distributed robotics including mobile sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, multi-agent systems, algorithms for multi-robot systems, modular robots, swarm robotics, and reinforcement learning or deep learning applied to multi-robot systems
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 9, 2024)
Subject Autonomous robots -- Congresses
Form Electronic book
Author Bourgeois, Julien, editor
Paik, Jamie, editor
Piranda, Benoît, editor
Werfel, Justin, editor
Hauert, Sabine, editor
Pierson, Alyssa, editor
Hamann, Heiko, editor
Lam, Tin Lun, editor
Matsuno, Fumitoshi, editor
Mehr, Negar, editor
Makhoul, Abdallah, editor
ISBN 9783031514975
3031514971