@article{8466de2836134ea18ea8ab69ce5e144a,
title = "Preface",
author = "Roderich Gro{\ss} and Andreas Kolling and Spring Berman and Emilio Frazzoli and Alcherio Martinoli and Fumitoshi Matsuno and Melvin Gauci",
note = "Funding Information: This edition of DARS included three awards: Best Paper, Best Application Paper, and Best Poster. The awards committee was chaired by Michael Rubenstein (Northwestern University, USA) and included Melvin Gauci (Harvard University, USA), Sabine Hauert (Bristol University, UK), and Bahar Haghighat (EPFL, Switzerland). For the Best Paper award, the Program Chairs nominated six papers as finalists from among all the accepted papers based on the reports and award nominations by the referees, as well as on the revised contributions included in the digital proceedings. The final decision also took into account the presentation quality at the symposium. The Best Paper award went to “Robust Coordinated Aerial Deployments for Theatrical Applications Given Online User Interaction via Behavior Composition” by Ellen Cappo et al. The Best Application Paper award was sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. All orally-presented papers were eligible for this award, and the decision took into account the degree to which the work addressed problems of practical implementation, and the quality of the presentation. This award went to “Construction Planning for a Modularized Rail Structure: Type Selection of Rail Structure Modules and Dispatch Planning of Constructor Robots” by Rui Fukui et al. All posters were eligible for the Best Poster award, and the decision was based on the quality of the work and the poster presentation. This award went to “Vertex: A New Distributed Underwater Robotic Platform for Environmental Monitoring” by Felix Schill et al.",
year = "2018",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
pages = "vii--viii",
journal = "Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics",
issn = "2511-1256",
}