Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems

Task Allocation.- The Generation of Bidding Rules for Auction-Based Robot Coordination.- Issues in Multi-Robot Coalition Formation.- Sensor Network-Mediated Multi-Robot Task Allocation.- Coordination in Dynamic Environments.- Multi-Objective Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems.- Levels of Multi-Robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments.- Parallel Stochastic Hill- Climbing with Small Teams.- Toward Versatility of Multi-Robot Systems.- Information / Sensor Sharing and Fusion.- Decentralized Communication Strategies for Coordinated Multi-Agent Policies.- Improving Multirobot Multitarget Tracking by Communicating Negative Information.- Enabling Autonomous Sensor-Sharing for Tightly-Coupled Cooperative Tasks.- Distributed Mapping and Coverage.- Merging Partial Maps Without Using Odometry.- Distributed Coverage of Unknown/Unstructured Environments by Mobile Sensor Networks.- Motion Planning and Control.- Real-Time Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Safe Dynamics.- A Multi-Robot Testbed for Biologically-Inspired Cooperative Control.- Human-Robot Interaction.- Task Switching and Multi-Robot Teams.- User Modelling for Principled Sliding Autonomy in Human-Robot Teams.- Applications.- Multi-Robot Chemical Plume Tracing.- Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments.- Precision Manipulation with Cooperative Robots.- Poster Short Papers.- A Robust Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Multi-Robot Localization.- A Dialogue-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Team Control.- Hybrid Free-Space Optics/Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) Networks for Mobile Robot Teams.- Swarming UAVS Behavior Hierarchy.- The Gnats — Low-Cost Embedded Networks for Supporting Mobile Robots.- Role Based Operations.- Ergodic Dynamics by Design: A Route to Predictable Multi-Robot Systems.