Reconfigurable Robots I -- Self-Reconfiguration Using Directed Growth -- A hardware/software architecture for the control of self reconfigurable robots -- Emergent Morphology Control of a Modular Robot by Exploiting the Interaction between Control and Mechanical Dynamics -- HydroGen: Automatically Generating Self-Assembly Code for Hydron Units -- Emergence of Intelligence Through Mobility -- Local Obstacle Avoidance with Reliable Goal Acquisition for Mobile Robots -- Adaptive Routing System by Intelligent Environment with Media Agents -- Multi-Robot Concurrent Learning in Museum Problem -- How a Cooperative Behavior can emerge from a Robot Team -- Vehicle Guidance System using Local Information Assistants -- Multi-Robot Perception -- Topological Map Merging -- An approach to active sensing using the Viterbi algorithm -- Using Group Knowledge for Multitarget Terrain-Based State Estimation -- Multi-AUVs for Visual Mapping Tasks -- Reconfigurable Robots II -- Cellular Robots Forming a Mechanical Structure -- Planning Behaviors of Modular Robots with Coherent Structure using Randomized Method -- In-Place Distributed Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Planning -- Distributed Metamorphosis of Regular M-TRAN Structures -- Task Allocation — Multi-Robot Cooperation -- Multi-Robot Task Allocation Method for Heterogeneous Tasks with Priorities -- Decentralized Markov Decision Processes for Handling Temporal and Resource constraints in a Multiple Robot System -- Emergent Robot Differentiation for Distributed Multi-Robot Task Allocation -- Cooperative Control Method Using Evaluation Information on Objective Achievement -- Multiple UAV cooperative searching operation using polygon area decomposition and efficient coverage algorithms -- Control Architectures -- A Distributed Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Experimentation -- Aerial Shepherds: Coordination among UAVs and Swarms of Robots -- Dispersing robots in an unknown environment -- Embedding heterogeneous levels of decisional autonomy in multi-robot systems -- Distributed Problem Solving -- Collective Energy Distribution: Maintaining the Energy Balance in Distributed Autonomous Robots using Trophallaxis -- Building Blocks for Multi-robot Construction -- Coordinating Aerial Robots and Sensor Networks for Localization and Navigation -- Pervasive Sensor-less Networks for Cooperative Multi-robot Tasks -- Group Behavior -- Communication Strategies in Multi-robot Search and Retrieval: Experiences with MinDART -- Value-Based Communication Preservation for Mobile Robots -- Dynamical Reconfiguration of Cooperation Structure by Interaction Network -- Collecting Behavior of Interacting Robots with Virtual Pheromone -- Swarm Intelligence -- Distributed Autonomous Micro Robots: From Small Clusters to a Real Swarm -- Modeling and Optimization of a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System -- Scalable Control of Distributed Robotic Macrosensors -- Self-Organised Task Allocation in a Group of Robots -- Distributed Algorithms for Dispersion in Indoor Environments Using a Swarm of Autonomous Mobile Robots -- Motion Coordination -- Optimal Design Methodology for an AGV Transportation System by Using the Queuing Network Theory -- Control of Vehicle Cooperative Behavior in Non-Signalized Intersection -- High-Level Modelling of Cooperative Mobile Robot Systems -- Distributed Control -- Lateral and Longitudinal Stability for Decentralized Formation Control -- Decentralized Cooperative Object Transportation by Multiple Mobile Robots with a Pushing Leader -- Applications -- Attentive Workbench: An Intelligent Production Cell Supporting Human Workers -- Development of a Forward-Hemispherical Vision Sensor for Remote Control of a Small Mobile Robot and for Acquisition of Visual-Information.