Michael Otte - Böcker

This volume of the SPAR series brings the proceedings of the fourteen edition of the DARS symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, whose proceedings have been published within SPAR since the past edition. This symposium took place in Boulder, CO from October 15th to 17th, 2018. The volume edited by Nikolaus Correll and Mac Schwager contains 36 scientific contributions cutting across planning, control, design, perception, networking, and optimization, all united through the common thread of distributed robotic systems.

Different chapters combine ideas from a wide variety of fields, spanning and combining planning (for tasks, paths, motion, navigation, coverage, and patrol), computational geometry and topology, control theory, machine learning, formal methods, game theory, information theory, and theoretical computer science.

Different chapters combine ideas from a wide variety of fields, spanning and combining planning (for tasks, paths, motion, navigation, coverage, and patrol), computational geometry and topology, control theory, machine learning, formal methods, game theory, information theory, and theoretical computer science.

This book of the SPAR series contains 40 scientific articles presented at the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. The conference was held October 27–30, 2024, on Roosevelt Island in New York City. This book covers a broad scope of topics within robotics, with a focus on algorithms and engineering for distributed systems of robots. Specific topics include resource-constrained robots, mobile sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, underwater robots, multi-agent systems, planning algorithms, modular robots, swarm robotics, foundation models, and machine learning for distributed autonomous robotic systems.