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Similar to                     observations in many natural systems, such as ant tribes, the pattern formation                     of colored shells or convection patterns in the Rayleigh-B\u00e9nard                     problem of fluid dynamics, the self-organization principles lead to a robust and                     fault tolerant behavior where the patterns or structures recover from                     disturbances. The considered problem is the dynamic assignment of a number of                     robots to given targets where the mobile robots have to move to the targets in                     order to perform some tasks there. Hereby, each robot uses only local                     information (i.e., no world coordinate system is necessary). The underlying                     mathematical problem of the robot-target assignment is the so-called two-index                     assignment problem from combinatorial optimization. The approach used guarantees                     always feasible solutions in the assignment of robotic units to targets. As a                     consequence, for scenarios with only convex obstacles with large enough                     distances to each other, no spurious states cause the assignment process to                     fail. The error resistant control method for distributed autonomous robotic                     systems is demonstrated by several experiments with mobile robots. 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