Related Event: IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics(SMC), October 8-11, 2000, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (http://mot.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/smc2000)

The Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems deals with new strategies to realize complex, modular, robust, and fault-tolerant robotic systems. Technologies, algorithms, and system architectures for distributed autonomous robotic systems will be presented and discussed during the symposium. All interested researchers and engineers are invited to participate in DARS 2000.

The International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems successfully took place in 1992, 1994, and 1996 in Japan at RIKEN, Wako, and in 1998 at the University of Karlsruhe,  Germany. In 2000, Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host DARS 2000 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Knoxville is in scenic East Tennessee, with easy access to the beautiful Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tour of the robotics facilities at nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be arranged as part of DARS 2000.

DARS 2000 is being sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and co-sponsored (under request) by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan (SICE).

General Co-Chairs:

Prof. George Bekey, University of Southern California, USA
Dr. Jacob Barhen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

 Selected papers will be included in the proceedings of DARS 2000, which will be published as a monograph entitled "Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 4", by Springer-Verlag.

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