#DARS16 live coverage and video trailer: From robot swarms to origami modules

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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Sabine from Robohub will be attending – so get in touch.

Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Sabine Hauert is President of Robohub and Associate Professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory