International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 2026)

Topics

• Modular robotics
• Swarm robotic systems and design
• Self-organizing and self-assembling robotic systems
• Mobile sensor networks
• Hybrid symbiotic teams (e.g. animals and robots)
• Human swarm interaction
• Multi-robot motion coordination
• Multi-robot control and planning
• Distributed manipulation
• Multi-robot learning and adaptation
• Distributed decision making
• Distributed control and planning
• Networking in multi-robot systems
• Collective embodied intelligence
• Distributed cooperative perception
• Localization and navigation in multi-robot systems
• Performance metrics for multi-robot systems
• Trustworthy and verifiable distributed systems
• Applications in soft matter physics, biology, medicine, and chemistry
• Societal/economic/ethical/regulatory/educational considerations for distributed autonomous robotic systems
• Applications in exploration, inspection, coverage, search and rescue, service, environmental monitoring, agriculture, logistics, architecture, autonomous fleets, etc