The 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) in London this week brings together the very best working in multi-robot systems. The general chair this year is Roderich Gross from Sheffield Robotics.

The three-day conference will include 51 presentations from 17 countries, including 4 keynotes by:

• Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado Boulder): Material-integrated intelligence for robot autonomy
• Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania): Coordination, cooperation, and collaboration in multi-robot systems
• James AR Marshall (University of Sheffield): Go to the bee and be wise: Swarm engineering inspired by house-hunting honeybees
• Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University): Robust human control of multi-robot swarms

You can find the full program here.

Papers cover a range of topics including flying and underwater bots, swarms, and origami modules that self-assemble. Check the video trailer for an overview of some of the research presented.

Papers featured in the video trailer include:

• Robust Coordinated Aerial Deployments for Theatrical Applications Given Online User Interaction via Behavior Composition
  Ellen Cappo, Arjav Desai, Nathan Michael
• Programmable Self-Disassembly for Shape Formation in Large-Scale Robot Collectives
  Melvin Gauci, Radhika Nagpal, Michael Rubenstein
• Geometrical study of a quasi-spherical module for building programmable matter
  Benoît Piranda, Julien Bourgeois
• Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring
  Felix Schill, Alexander Bahr, Alcherio Martinoli
• Distributed Camouflage for Swarm Robotics and Smart Materials
  Yang Li, John Klingner, Nikolaus Correll
• OuijaBots: Omnidirectional Robots for Cooperative Object Transport with Rotation Control using No Communication
  Zijian Wang, Guang Yang, Xuanshuo Su, Mac Schwager
• Effects of Spatiality on Value-Sensitive Decisions by Robot Swarms
  Andreagiovanni Reina, Thomas Bose, Vito Trianni, James Marshall
• A Comparative Study of Collision Avoidance Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Performance and Robustness to Noise
  Steven Roelofsen, Denis Gillet, Alcherio Martinoli

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