DARS-SWARM2021

DARS-SWARM2021 finished successfully. Thank you.

See you at DARS2022 in Montbéliard, France and SWARM2022 in Beppu, Japan.

What's new

• May 31, 2021: Online Talk/Discussion Guide announced.

• May 25, 2021: On-demand Discussion Guide announced.

• May 17, 2021: Symposium Program announced.

• May 14, 2021: Video Instruction emailed. Check your mailbox.

• Apr. 21, 2021: Plenary / Keynote / Invited Speech Program announced.

• Mar. 19, 2021: Late registration deadline (May 24) announced.

• Mar. 9, 2021:  Keynote speaker page (Prof. Miura) updated.

• Mar. 2, 2021:  Keynote speaker page (Prof. Cao) updated.

• Feb. 26, 2021: Registration site reopened.

• Feb. 23, 2021: Registration fee updated.

• Feb. 22, 2021: Organized session page (Prof. Petersen and Prof. Peters) updated.

• Feb. 18, 2021:  Notification of SWARM papers is behind schedule. Sorry. 

• Feb. 17, 2021:  Invited speaker page (Prof. Hirata) updated.

• Feb. 14, 2021: DARS-SWARM2021 will not be held in-person but online.

IMPORTANT Information

DARS-SWARM2021 will be held as a virtual conference.

Calendar

• Nov. 1, 2020 Nov. 30, 2020 Dec. 10, 2020 JST (UTC +09:00) Submission of full/short papers (NO additional extensions)

• Feb. 15, 2021 JST (UTC +09:00) Submission of OS papers

• Feb. 1, 2021 Feb. 15, 2021 Notification of acceptance (Extended) 

• March 15, 2021 JST Camera-ready submission and Fee payment deadline

• March 15, 2021 JST Submission of abstracts

• April 1, 2021 JST Early registration deadline

• May 24, 2021 JST Late registration deadline

• June 1-4, 2021 Symposium 

Publication

• Proceedings of  DARS2021 will be published as Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems in the book series Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics. 

• Selected papers from accepted papers to SWARM2021 will be invited to submit to a special issue on Artificial Life and Robotics (Springer). 

SCOPE

Living things achieved perfection through natural selection. A swarm could do many things, which its individuals could not. Swarms do not just adapt to their environment but can construct suitable habitats for their own advantages. A constructive understanding of the intelligence of living things is productive in biology and engineering.  The aim of this joint symposium DARS-SWARM2021 is the construction of a bridge between biologists and engineers who are interested in the intelligence of living things and the creation of a new academic field by integrating biology and engineering. This joint symposium will focus on the biological and engineering approaches for understanding swarm behavior, biologically-inspired robotics and distributed autonomous robotic systems. All aspects of swarm behavior and bio-inspired robotics are welcome, including - but not limited to - the following topics: