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Robotics weekly meetings
2007-01-15T09:42:50Z
<p>Christensen: /* Wednesday 17th January 2006 - Anders */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 15th November 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about the experiment I'm currently setting up on simulation. The experiment compares the chains with a new controller I call forcefield. I will shortly describe my new controller, and give a detailed description of the experimental setup and the results I expect. My goal for the discussion is mainly to get some feedback and criticism concerning the experiment.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 6th December 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation will describe my current work on the use of virtual pheromones for path selection. The predictions of a mathematical model will be compared with results from simulated experiments. I will show that the group of robots is able to display a collective choice in favour of the shortest path, and that it can possibly balance the exploitation of these paths.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 10th January 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
I will be presenting the recent set of experiments I have done on functional self assembly and adaptive hill rotation.<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 17th January 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Fault detection for automonous mobile robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 31st January 2006 - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 14th February 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th February 2006 - Carlo ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 14th March 2006 - Xavier ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th March 2006 Post doc #2==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4357
Administration weekly meetings
2006-12-13T13:26:46Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
"Marco" - I cannot be there<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
==Thursday 7th December 2006 --CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
==Thursday 14th December 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[What you need to begin to work in IRIDIA]] Max MANFRIN<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
== Next admin meeting ==<br />
<br />
Add your points to the agenda below, and when there are enough, a date for an administration meeting will be announced.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4350
Administration weekly meetings
2006-12-06T15:06:05Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 7th December 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
"Marco" - I cannot be there<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
==Thursday 7th December 2006 --CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
==Thursday 14th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 21st December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4319
Administration weekly meetings
2006-11-29T14:11:27Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 30th November 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
"Marco" - I cannot be there<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
==Thursday 7th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 14th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 21st December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4317
Administration weekly meetings
2006-11-22T14:03:49Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 23rd November 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd November 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
"Marco" - I cannot be there<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th November 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 7th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 14th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 21st December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4305
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-11-14T11:06:49Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 22nd November 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 6th December 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 20th December 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 10th January 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 24th January 2006 - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 7th February 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21th February 2006 - Carlo ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 7th March 2006 - Xavier ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21th March 2006 Post doc #2==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Previous_MEETROBOT_meetings&diff=4304
Previous MEETROBOT meetings
2006-11-14T10:50:01Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Wednesday 10th May 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I am going to present an extension of my chaining controller. In the original version robots just form chains from the nest. In the new controller I introduce a very simple "prey enhancement" mechanism where the robots activate their LEDs when they perceive the nest, and in this way enhance the area in which the prey can be perceived. I present the results from an experiment I conducted in simulation.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 3rd May 2006 - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I'm going to rehearse two presentations that have to be prepared for the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), which is held in two weeks in Florida. Each presentation should last 13 minutes + discussion.<br />
#* Abstract: This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object by a group of mobile robots. We present a system in which group members lacking knowledge about the position of the transport target exploit physical interactions with other members of the group that have such knowledge. This is the first such system to achieve a performance superior to that of a passive caster. The system is fully decentralized and the information flow between the robots is limited to physical interactions. The robots have no knowledge about their relative positions. A comprehensive experimental study with up to six physical robots confirms the effectiveness, reliability, and robustness of the system. Finally, the system is examined in rough terrain conditions.<br />
#* Abstract: We present a first attempt to accomplish a simple object manipulation task using the self-reconfigurable robotic system swarm-bot. The number of modular entities involved, their global shape or size and their internal structure are not pre-determined, but result from a self-organized process in which the modules autonomously grasp each other and/or an object. The modules are autonomous in perception, control, action, and power. We present quantitative results, obtained with six physical modules, that confirm the utility of self-assembling robots in a concrete task.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
These are the two papers. However, the presentations should be self-contained.<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/icra06_568_final.pdf<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/icra06_922_final.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th April 2006 - Christos ==<br />
I will talk about current work on the evolution of communication for heterogeneous robots, trying to link it with older work and also with what I have in mind as future goal, but also on a new self-assembly method we are working on with Anders, where the NN takes care of everything, without use of camera. I will also elaborate on the doors the latter effort might open once successful.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 19th April 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I presents the results of a series of simulation concerning the evolution of controllers for heterogeneous robots required to coordinate their actions in order to approach a target. This work, carried out by myself, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini and Marco Dorigo, has been recently submitted to SAB06.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
If you are interested in doing some reading about this subject, you can find in my room printed copies of the paper submitted to the conference.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 13th April 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Controller design<br />
#* Palet lifting and transport<br />
#* Evolving self-assembly<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* E-pucks<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* MarcoD, Rehan<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 6th April 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Controller - Two robots adaptively rotate to overcome a hill<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Rehan - Common Interface Wiki Page<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* None<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* MarcoD<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 29th March 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about the results of my experiments on negotiation of direction for cooperative transport.<br />
#* I'll explain the experiments, present and discuss the results, and also ask your opinion about future work.<br />
#* The (say) ten last minutes I'll present you the next work I plan to do.<br />
<br />
Open document presentation (openoffice2) available : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/nego021.odp<br />
The same as a pdf : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/nego021.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
Take a look at the paper submitted to ANTS2006, it summarizes the results obtained in the negotiation experiment.<br />
(has been removed now)<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Christos, MarcoD<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Shervin would like to rehearse the talk he will give next week at the IAS-9 conference. The talk is very similar to the one given in October, so for those who already followed it by then it might be quite boring to hear the same stuff again....<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Roderich would like to (prepare and) rehearse his talk "Self-assembly of Mobile Robots - From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony" to be held on March 7, 2006 at the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, Tokyo.<br />
<br />
The talk will be quick and can be followed without reading the paper (see link).<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/reading_material.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D, Thomas<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*'''Marco''': I will briefly present the Swarmanoid project: goals, structure and allocated resources (15 minutes max, everybody invited, also optimization people, so that everybody is aware of Swarmanoid).<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* '''Christos:''' Given that I do not have something completely new to present, I will discuss 2-3 intresting points that came out of the work presented at the previous talk. I will also complement Elio's talk discussing a possible interesting scenario. Some ideas for my future work will also be given.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Fixed-point: How to handle precision arithmetic on the s-bot without the use of floats/doubles.<br />
#* '''Rodi and Anders:''' Cooperative transport of an object on a pallet, status and ideas. <br />
#* '''Alex:''' proudly announces that it is possible to detect reliably a direction pointed by a robot using visual communication (LED-camera) <br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio<br />
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<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
This week I am going to give a "VERY INFORMAL" (please note the "informal") presentation on some work I'm currently doing on the evolution of signaling using Evolutionary Robotics methods. Note that, the meeting will be strictly focused on the description of my experiments (which, unfortunately for me, they are not very successful at the moment). So, if you are not interested in listening my sorrowful talk, you can certainly miss it.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==<br />
<br />
This meeting is going to be a bit technical.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Simulation<br />
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation<br />
#* Discussion on simulation<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
No reading is required, but I would recommend that people interested in or working with simulation to read Jacobi's [http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~wizard/AM04/_I_Articles/11_csrp457.ps.Z "Evolutionary Robotics and the Radical Envelope-of-Noise Hypothesis" (.ps.Z)], (1997), Journal of Adaptive Behavior vol. 6, No. 2, 325-368.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Wednesday 18th January - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Sbot Common Interface<br />
** Design Principles Design<br />
** Implementation (Current)<br />
** Live Demonstration<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Common_interface_presentation.pdf | Download the presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
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==Wednesday 11th January - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* I will introduce a new experiment that involves a group of robots trying to estimate collectively<br />
the direction of the nest, whereas they can not see it anymore.<br />
* After a quick description of the experiment I'll introduce a set of simple behavioural rules devised to produce the desired collective behaviour.<br />
* Then I'll present some simulation results, and describe how the group of robots manages to estimate the direction<br />
of the nest, and how it behaves in varying conditions (noise of the system, number of robots, duration of the experiment...).<br />
* Lastly I will discuss some tradeoff problems : robots estimate better the direction<br />
of the nest if they are numerous, but on the other hand they have difficulties to synchronize for achieving a collective prey retrieval.<br />
* And I will discuss some scalability and bifurcation features of the system<br />
<br />
* If I have some time, but it is not likely, I will present you my latest results on optimal foraging<br />
and improvements I did, following the suggestions of many of you.<br />
<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Robotics room server<br />
#* '''Anders:''' s-bot status (Rehan is going to kidnap the robots?)<br />
#* '''Anders:''' BibTeX file for robotics conferences and journals.<br />
#* '''Marco:''' Who takes care of the e-pucks?.<br />
#* '''Marco:''' NASA wants to cooperate with us.<br />
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<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alex_present_11_01_2006.pdf | Download the presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* '''Anders:''' Robotics room server<br />
** There is a new computer in the arena. It needs to be installed and configured. For people who do not have laptops and for the overhead camera, etc.<br />
* '''Anders:''' s-bot status (Rehan is going to kidnap the robots?)<br />
** Rehan is (maybe) going to take all the s-bots to Switzerland the final week of January.<br />
* '''Anders:''' BibTeX file for robotics conferences and journals.<br />
** A common BibTeX DB is already on the way. In a months time we should be able to test it.<br />
* '''Marco:''' Who takes care of the e-pucks?.<br />
** The e-pucks will arrive soon. Noone volunteered to test them. Marco will pick one at random. <br />
* '''Marco:''' NASA wants to cooperate with us.<br />
** IRIDIA is likely going to sign a contract with NASA for a number of experiments, in simulation and on the real robots, for transporting (lifting) building material on the moon.<br />
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<br />
==Wednesday 14th December - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*There's not too much that changed since my last talk.<br />
#*I will (very) shortly present the reimplemented version of my controller on twodee,<br />
#*talk about the experiments which I prepared and which I intend to run before xmas,<br />
#*introduce the idea for a new controller.<br />
#*If there's any interest I can show photos from Cuba....<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* The last meeting before Christmas (Dec 21st)<br />
#* MEETROBOT 2006<br />
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<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:TalkIridia_14.Dec.2005.pdf | Download presentation (pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* '''The last meeting of the year (next week)''': Paola and Federico are leaving so we are going to make this sad day by having a lot of fun starting at 16h00.<br />
*'''MEETROBOT 2006''': The weekly robotics meetings will continue the 11th of January 2006.<br />
*'''NASA and swarm-robotics''':<br />
** Interview: http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/hopping_microbots.html<br />
** NASA's page: http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1798&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0<br />
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<br />
==Wednesday 7th December - Movie ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco: I am currently flying from Lyon to Dublin<br />
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==Wednesday 30th November - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Urgent stuff'''<br />
#*MARCO: We need to briefly discuss the ongoing reparation of our s-bots<br />
<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*This talk is related to my visit to Japan. I will provide an overview about:<br />
#*reasons to go there<br />
#*how to get funding (JSPS programs)<br />
#*some robotics research labs<br />
#*my research and the environment<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* NONE<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Rodis_presentation_Nov_2005.pdf|Download presentation (pdf ~40MB)]]<br />
* For the real s-bots the batteries are going to be replaced.<br />
* The common interface is ready. It currently works on the real s-bots and in the TwoDee simulator.<br />
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<br />
==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Communication - some brief overview, some definitions (this was supposed to have been discussed some months ago when nobody showed up to discuss a related paper I proposed, I guess this time with some "pressure" you will all be there and super-motivated and interested, what a wonderful world...<br />
#* I am going to talk on my work on the Evolution of Communication in cases where there is no fitness reward for signalling-reaction to the signal. What conditions seem to favour the evolution of communication?<br />
#* An idea for extention, an intro for my next talk, maybe?<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Arena camera<br />
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<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Christos_presentation_nov_2005.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* No news on the arena camera<br />
* Rehan and Anders are still working (hard) on the common s-bot interface.<br />
<br />
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<br />
==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*Title: General, Universal, even worst Global: I'm against, better ANTI-.<br />
<br />
The talk is meant to be a brief introduction mixed with some personal conclusions concerning the Theory of Direct Perception and its significance in the domain of Evolutionary Robotics.<br />
<br />
'''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
<br />
* Arena camera<br />
* Common interface<br />
* OMiss and 2D kinematics<br />
* Duration of the meetings<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* None for the moment, I am happy to suggest you some readings if you feel interested in what I will talk about.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco, Federico, Rodi<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Etuci-iridia16-11-2005.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* Arena camera: Federico was not present - postponed to next meeting<br />
* Common interface: Rehan and Anders are working on it now.<br />
* OMiss and 2D kinematics: It is a good idea, but no one at IRIDIA really needs it now, and no one has the time to work on it.<br />
* Duration of the meetings: We will try to limit the meetings to 60 mins.<br />
<br><br />
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<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 9th November - Federico==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* ER approach for real world apllication: reference framework for vehicle controller<br />
#* Some requirements in my navigation task: patrolling, collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance<br />
#* Multirobot context: testing the Quinn experiment. Simulation and results with real s-bots<br />
#* Discussion/feedback on tools/approaches selected and on future work<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Arena camera<br />
#* Common interface<br />
#* OMiss and 2D kinematics<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
# [[Media:Pellecchia_making_driver_modeling.pdf|Reference for my simulator benchmarking: the Quinn experiment @ Sussex (pdf)]]<br />
# [[Media:Quinn_evolving_teamwork.pdf|Reference for automotive navigation usign evolutionary approach (pdf)]]<br />
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<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
N/A<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Federicos_presentation_2005_rwm.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* We had no time to discuss the points on the agenda, so they have been postponed till next meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''IRIDIA Admin'''<br />
#* Coffee Machine<br />
#* New Wiki Pages<br />
#* Next week...<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* What is robotic pattern formation?<br />
#* Potential applications using the Swarm Bot robotic platform<br />
#* Discussion / feedback on my research direction<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Sbot / Simulator programmatic interfaces<br />
#* Buying a computer+flatscreen for the robot room (or taking one that is not used)<br />
#* Any spare monitor for Rodi?<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Location'''''<br />
Ping pong room<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
<br />
* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio, Thomas<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Pattern_presentation.pdf|Download Presentation (PDF)]]<br />
<br />
* ''Coffee machine'': Various options available. Ciro is taking care of calling the people in charge of the ULB expresso machine deal.<br />
* ''New wiki pages:''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]]<br />
* ''Career developement plans online'': Alex is going to propose a technology for the next meeting, which allows us to have up-to-date career development plans online, but only accessible by the student in question and his/her supervisor.<br />
* ''Arena camera:'' Federico is going to look into camera software and hardware for next weeks meeting (for the arena, since the movies shot with the current camera are of poor quality.<br />
* ''OMiss with 2D dynamics:'' We all believe that having the OMiss work with a 2D dynamics engine as well as ODE would be a good idea for many experiments. It might take too much time to implement though and no one seemed too keen on actually implementing it. We will see at the next meeting.<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th October - Anders==<br />
<br />
'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''<br />
<br />
Dependability and fault-tolerance in Robotics:<br />
<br />
* What is fault-tolerance and dependability?<br />
* What has been done in robotics?<br />
* How could fault tolerance be implemented in a swarm robotics context?<br />
<br />
'''''Administration Issues'''''<br />
<br />
* Coffee machine<br />
* New documents on the Wiki.<br />
* Next week...<br />
* The new e-pucks<br />
* Simulators and swarm-bot interfaces<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio, Rodi, Christos<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Fault_Tolerant_and_Dependable_Robotics.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
* ''General:'' The topics on the agenda, which are of general interest are moved to the beginning of the meeting, so that non-robotics people can attend at a fixed hour each week.<br />
* ''Coffee machine'': <br />
** Marco buys a new one when he comes across a good, new coffee machine (suggestions are very welcome)<br />
** Mauro is in charge of sending the current, broken machine to someone who can repair it.<br />
* ''New Wiki-pages'':<br />
** [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - how to publish technical reports at IRIDIA + LaTeX styles etc.<br />
** [[Access to Digital Libraries]]<br />
** [[Media:Quand_quelque_chose_est_casse_sur_le_sbot.pdf | When something happens to the s-bots (French, pdf)]] - A document list common hardware problems and their solutions. Can also be found in the [[SBOT FAQ]] and the [[SBOT STATUS]] sections.<br />
* ''Wiki security'': For certain parts of the Wiki it would be convenient to have access control, so that only people from IRIDIA can access those pages. Anders will look into that.<br />
* ''E-pucks'': All the available info on the e-pucks will be put on the Wiki.<br />
* ''Sbot/simulator interfaces'': Rehan is going to create a repository for the common sbot interface and it is going to be implemented in TwoDee.<br />
* ''OMiss simulator'': Rehan is going to create a Wiki page on checking out and compiling OMiss (the new simulator based on ODE).<br />
<br><br />
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<br />
==Wednesday 19th October 2005 - Alexandre==<br />
<br />
'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''<br />
<br />
The main topic is optimal multi-foraging in swarm robotics.<br />
<br />
* I will present my latest developments and results<br />
* Go again through goals, motivations and bibliography (renewed).<br />
* Discussion about the context of this work, possible applications ?<br />
* I might present, if there is time left, my next experiment. <br />
<br />
You can take a look at this very quick summary of my current research : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/alex_research.pdf<br />
<br />
'''''Administration Issues'''''<br />
<br />
* Coffee machines<br />
* Format of these meetings<br />
* Standard programatic interface for simulators / real sbots.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Rodi<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
You can [[Media:ExpIndependant.pdf | download a copy of Alex's presentation]]<br />
<br />
* The optimization group will have their own weekly presentations, but the will invite robotics people to participate, just like the swarm-bots presentations are open to optimization people. Seminars will continue as always and presentations might be given both at weekly meetings and at seminars. <br />
* Anders brings his coffee machine to test it. In case it pass the Italian test, we will buy one while the super-machine is being fixed.<br />
* Simulators and a standard interface for simulators:<br />
** Rehan and Alex are going to talk to Vito and make a plan<br />
** Rehan proposed Halva's interface, which he is going to send to Ciro and Anders for discussion on the next meeting<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Roderich<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I will present the likely theme for my Phd: 'Swarm Control'. Research in Swarm robotics is currently focused on producing increasingly sophisticated autonomous behaviour in robotic swarms. However intelligent robot swarms become, humans will still for the forseeable future need some way of controlling these swarms for them to be useful 'tools'. The design of such control mechanisms is not obvious, since in distributed swarm systems there is no natural mapping from human goals to the robots' internal representation of the world.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Let's discuss Francesco request about new s-bots specifications and prepare a document for him (Marco)<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I will try to present the results of the analysis of the mechanisms employed by the robots to solve the navigation task I described the previous time. My presentation will be very very informal. Please, do not expect too much since I'm particularly busy working on other issues<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''No more meetings before September!'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4303
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-11-14T10:49:43Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4302
Administration weekly meetings
2006-11-14T10:49:06Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd November 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th November 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 7th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 14th December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 21st December 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Previous_administration_meeting&diff=4301
Previous administration meeting
2006-11-14T10:44:39Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>==Wednesday 9th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* Timing of these administration meetings<br />
* Career development plans and the technology (Alex)<br />
* Upcoming conferences<br />
* New wiki-pages<br />
* Coffee machine<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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N/A<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* Administration meetings have been moved to '''Thursdays 10h30'''<br />
* ''Online career development plans:'' Alex is going to present the technology next meeting<br />
* ''New Wiki pages:''<br />
** [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* ''Coffee machine:'' Marco is going to check prices at Illy and next meeting we are going to vote on which machine to buy<br />
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==Thursday 17th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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* Alex : make the wiki faster : how ? software / hardware solutions ?<br />
* Alex : security is never perfect... do we have a daily backup of the database (ie all wiki contents) ?<br />
* Marco Dorigo (MD): I would like to discuss the "duration" of MEETOPT and MEETROBOTS meetings. <br />
It seems to me that we should set a firm limit to the talk and discussion parts. May be 30 min each? <br />
* MD: Time change for MEETADMIN of Dec 8, 2005<br />
* MD: People should identify themselves when producing items in this list<br />
* Usage policy for HD space on the rack/cluster<br />
* Online career development plan<br />
* Coffee machine: This time we will choose which one to buy <br />
* IRIDIA Christmas dinner<br />
* IRIDIA lab webpage - It is not reall necessary to discuss this point as it is already in the works since long (but before we work on it we need to have the database ready and filled, which will take a few weeks more) and it will be finalised sooner or later!<br />
* New conferences<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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N/A <br><br><br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''Faster Wiki''': We are in the process of buying new hardware, that should solve the problem.<br />
* '''Wiki Security'': Security and network infrastructure is changing, backups, security, etc. are getting reviewed and reimplemented.<br />
* '''Duration of weekly meetings'': 30 mins for presentation, 30 mins for discussion MAXIMUM. Will be enforced.<br />
* '''Schedule change''': 8th of Dec. the admin meeting will begin at 10h00 instead of 10h30, due to a clash with a lecture.<br />
* '''Rack HD space policy''': If the free disk space becomes less than a certain threshhold, a mail is sent to all containing statistics on who is (ab)using all the space. A mail is sent monthly to everyone listing who is using how much. In case this does not work quotes will be implemented.<br />
** Max: I have implemented two cron jobs on majorana: the first check every hour if the available space is less than 30% and in case send an email to all_AT_iridia, the second is the monthly report on the status of the used space sent by email to all_AT_iridia.<br />
* '''On line career development plan''': Go to the [[StudentsIRIDIA]] page and fill out your career development plan. Currently, the pages are public, but soon this should change (Alex + Anders).<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': We are going to buy an Illy Classic - lab pays 500 EUR the students pay 20 EUR each (Christos is responsible).<br />
* '''Lab webpage''': Currently work is being done on it - DB should be ready around New Years and then content has to be filled in.<br />
* '''New Conferences''':<br />
** See [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA]]<br />
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==Thursday 24th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki Pages<br />
* New Conferences<br />
* Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?<br />
* Anders: Business cards<br />
* Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB<br />
* Alex : database problems. I asked some info to Halva on backup, but at the moment everything is fuzzy.<br />
* Alex : I think it would be nice to setup a wiki page with all the seminars held in Brussels. I am sure we miss many nice opportunities.<br />
* Misc <br />
** Paola's and Christos' dinner and party<br />
** Christos: Coffee machine payment<br />
* Anders: How to use the new coffee machine<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]]<br />
** [[Seminars]]<br />
* '''New Conferences''': None.<br />
* '''Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?'''<br />
** Try to upgrade one node and if it works, upgrade the rest.<br />
* '''Anders: Business cards'''<br />
** MD is going to check prices.<br />
* '''Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB'''<br />
** Reorganization within the ULB might result in IRIDIA being merged with two other labs. More will be known in January.<br />
* '''Alex : database problems'''<br />
** Alex is trying to repair the DB.<br />
* '''Wiki page on all the seminars held in Brussels''':<br />
** Please update the page when you hear about seminars, or add links to pages with seminars to the [[Seminars]] Wiki-page.<br />
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==Thursday 1st December -- CANCELLED!==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Alex -> attending a symposium in Paris<br />
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==Thursday 8th December -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco: I am currently in Dublin ...<br />
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==Thursday 15th December ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* '''Christos''': There is 40 EUR left from the coffee machine contribution, let's discuss how to spend this money, one idea is we buy some common lab coffee which we can all use, or even to buy a couple of cakes would not be a bad idea. Lets discuss this cause in there there's ~1.9 e from everybody!<br />
* '''Max''': Issues with NFS on the IRIDIA Cluster. <br />
** The solution adopted by Prasanna for his experiments relieves some "stress" from the harddrive (bottleneck for NFS). <br />
* '''Max''': Memory for the nodes of IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** I have installed on r17 4*512MB and on r04 8*256MB. Some quick test seems to show some small difference in performance. <br />
* '''Rodi''': Policy for IRIDIA Tech Report<br />
* '''Marco/Mauro''': Backup databases<br />
* '''Anders''': Coffee machine and decalcification?<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages:'''<br />
** Updated LaTeX package for technical reports - can be downloaded from [[IRIDIA Technical reports]].<br />
* '''New Conferences'''<br />
** "IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems" added to [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''Cluster and NFS''': Frequent reads/writing on the NFS on the cluster is slow. Use /tmp (local on each node) if you want to use intermediate files. Can give a x3 speed-up. A Wiki page should be made on these type of programming-for-the-cluster-tricks (Max).<br />
* '''Cluster and RAM''': Max and Rodi are currently testing different memory configurations for the cluster.<br />
* '''IRIDIA technical reports and dates''': The date of the technical report is the day on which you get the technical report number from Muriel. This should prevent situations where a technical report from e.g. 2004 references publications from 2005. <br />
* '''Database backup''': The DB backup should be done using mysqldump and not by copying files. Alex is responsible.<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': Tom is responsible for hunting down the coffee machine manual and the decalcify the machine.<br />
* '''New permanent point for the weekly admin meetings''': Rodi suggested to add a new default item to the agendas for the admin meetings, namely "Announcements and Publications". The idea is that if anyone is about to publish something or have published something then they briefly tell everyonbe else about it. Rodi's creative suggestion was accepted without much bloodshed.<br />
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==Thursday 12th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders:''' Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster - it seems like they need to be balanced if the "long" jobs are supposed to ever finish.<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster maintenance - I need to shut down the cluster for 1 day in order to performe some maintenance tasks (we received the new RAM and the new power cord) <br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[IRIDIA Technical reports]]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications: ''' Rodi, Tom, Francisco and Anders had new publications.<br />
* '''Anders: Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster'''<br />
** The cluster queues will be adjusted.<br />
* '''Max: Cluster maintenance ''' <br />
** Don't submit any jobs to the cluster before the maintenance has been performed. An estimate for the time need for the jobs currenty in the queue is needed by the submitters. Max will let everyone know when the cluster maintenance is going to take place once he knows.<br />
** Status on Jan 13 - Prasanna's job should finish in 2-3 days; Tom has not communicate me still a forcast<br />
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==Thursday 19th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster and queueing system: In order to avoid that a node is chocked by too many concurrent jobs (this was happening when nodes were using heavily the swap space), we need to tune the number of slots per queue. <br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#For_Apple_computer_owners For Apple computer owners]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Programming_tips_for_the_cluster Programming tips for the cluster]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#Wi-Fi_network_configuration IRIDIA Wi-Fi network]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Cluster and queueing system''' <br />
** 1GB of memory has been added to each node of the cluster. Now each node has 2GB or RAM, 4.5GB of swap space, and 20GB of /tmp space for local data storage. Nodes from r02 to r17 have 4x512MB DDR ECC REG DIMM, while nodes from r18 to r33 have 8*256MB DDR ECC REG DIMM.<br />
** The queues have been reniced like this: short=nice 2, medium=nice 3, long=nice 3, par=nice 2<br />
** The slots for queues have been changed like this: 3 slots in the short queue, 2 slots in the medium queue, 1 slot in the long queue and 1 slot in the parallel queue. We now have maximum 7 concurrent jobs per node (with an average space in RAM of 290MB per process) and 224 maximal concurrent jobs in the whole system.<br />
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==Thursday 26th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders''': Electronic journal access<br />
* '''Anders''': Business cards<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[Cloning a Debian server]]<br />
** Thomas and Alex are going to reorganize the Wiki because the frontpage is cluttering up<br />
* New conferences<br />
** 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference - deadline 1st Feb!! (see [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]])<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
** Ciro is getting married<br />
* Electronic journal access<br />
** Through Muriel's computer<br />
* Business cards<br />
** Marco is going to put an item on the agenda once the money for business cards has been found.<br />
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==Thursday 2nd February ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
'''Alex''' : a page about libsboteye<br />
'''Alex''' : Rehan announced a HOWTO about assembling/disassembling a sbot<br />
* '''Marco''': Coming paper submissions page<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Marco''': We should add a wikipage with planned paper submission, deadlines for submission, and info on CPU usage requirements. <br />
* '''Marco''': New digital projector. <br />
* '''Marco''': When will the new server be operational? <br />
* '''Marco''': IRIDIA backup to be put in another building? <br />
* '''Alex''' : More space for backup ? <br />
* '''Alex''' : Raid5 backup would make me feel safier.<br />
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'''''People that will be absent:'''''<br />
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Rodi, Alex?<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[Libsboteye]]<br />
** [[SBot Disassembly and Reassembly HOWTO]]<br />
** [[Coming paper submissions]] - if you are going to publish something, but down the conference and you name on this page.<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''When will the new server be operational?'''<br />
** Not tomorrow but within 1-2 months. <br />
* '''IRIDIA backup to be put in another building?''': <br />
** MD will check with the staff at the other location. Also it should be checked if there is enough bandwidth to run a backup server from that location.<br />
* '''Other:'''<br />
** This wiki is slow. We are going to buy some more RAM for the current IRIDIA server.<br />
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==Thursday 9th February ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max''': nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]. <br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Anders<br />
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==Thursday 16th February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 23rd February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D<br />
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==Thursday 2nd March -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D<br />
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==Thursday 9th March 2006-- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D<br />
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==Thursday 16th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D<br />
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==Thursday 23rd March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Alex<br />
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==Thursday 30th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 6th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 13th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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* Shervin proposes to discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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MARCO DORIGO<br />
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==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
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==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
* MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list<br />
* MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school<br />
* Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Marco Montes de Oca<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* ''New Wiki pages''<br />
** Max: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Submission_tips_for_the_cluster Submission tips for the cluster]<br />
* ''New conferences''<br />
** CIL conference, one paper from the optimization group and one from the robotics nerds should be submitted. Dealline: Beginning of June.<br />
* ''Announcements and Publications''<br />
** Elio and Christos had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
** Anders had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
* ''Arrangement of the coffee room''<br />
** Thomas, Mauro, Carlotta, Elio, Shervin, and Francisco C. Santos are meeting Friday at 14h00 to discuss different options. Their results will be presented at the next admin meeting<br />
* ''MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list''<br />
** If you want to discuss the assignment of your responsibilities, talk to Marco D.<br />
** If you want to add more tasks, talk to Marco D.<br />
* ''MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school''<br />
** See under ''New conferences above''<br />
* ''Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]''<br />
** And nobody will in the future.<br />
* '''''ADDITIONAL POINT'''''<br />
** Remember to inform Christos of any URLs referenced in your papers!<br />
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==Thursday 11th May 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Max: IRIDIA mailing lists (Staff, Guests, PhD Students, Optimization Group, Twodee) moved to GNU/Mailman<br />
** https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/<br />
* Marco: BNAIC: who is submitting/presenting? FNRS Comp Int day: who is submitting/presenting?<br />
* Marco: Three new master students will join IRIDIA. Decide on supervisors.<br />
* Christos: I will present the structure and explain how we will be using the IRIDIA SUPPLEMENTARY PAGE, plus I will refer to the things that each one should provide and things that people should do with respect to cited pages in papers, so please do not be absent! :)<br />
** http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/supp<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 25th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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* Alex : about robotics meetings, people are slowly taking the habit to not provide any material, even after the presentation. I think it is important to always provide the presentation. This is helps to really keep track of what has been said, what people do and so on. + it costs almost nothing ... <br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 1st June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 8th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 15th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 22nd June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 29th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 6th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 13th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Max<br />
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==Thursday 20th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Max<br />
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==Thursday 27th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Max</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4300
Administration weekly meetings
2006-11-14T10:44:20Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
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[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
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Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=SBOT_STATUS&diff=4260
SBOT STATUS
2006-09-02T15:12:03Z
<p>Christensen: /* sbot 13 */</p>
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<div>==What is this page?==<br />
<br />
This page contains an up to date list of the status of the IRIDIA sbots.<br />
Please update with any problems or other info you find for each s-bot.<br />
<br />
<br />
;IMPORTANT - Stay up to date with [[How_to_avoid_damage_to_the_s-bot]].<br />
(Info on recharging with new circuit board recently added).<br />
<br><br />
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== Quick status update == <br />
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* All 13 sbots in IRIDIA<br />
20th Aug 2006<br />
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==Sbots in IRIDIA==<br />
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===sbot 8===<br />
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===sbot 9===<br />
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Check battery levels with volt meter before switching on.<br />
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rehan - 25th April 2006<br />
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===sbot 13===<br />
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Proximity sensor 0 bent and useless<br />
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===sbot 19===<br />
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Proximity sensor 0 bent and useless<br />
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===sbot 23===<br />
ir sensor 11 bent inwards. Needs dismantling to fix. Doable by Rehan in IRIDIA.<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 20 August 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot24===<br />
* Gripper will not open or close<br />
* Grinding noise when doing turret rotation<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 14:19, 5 March 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot 30===<br />
*Perspex turret has a bad fit onto camera. Means hard to get consistent centre for libsboteye.<br />
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===sbot 32===<br />
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===sbot 35===<br />
traction sensor not properly working (y negative semiaxis not sensitive at all) --[[User:Vtrianni|vito]] 21:43, 20 June 2006 (CEST)<br />
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===sbot 36===<br />
The turret is backwards - don't use this s-bot. Rehan has to open it to determine which way to rotate the turret back in the correct position.<br />
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===sbot 22===<br />
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===sbot 6===<br />
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===sbot 26===<br />
* Still having network issues after Lausanne checkup ??<br />
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==Sbots in Lausanne==</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=SBOT_STATUS&diff=4259
SBOT STATUS
2006-09-02T14:59:57Z
<p>Christensen: /* sbot 19 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==What is this page?==<br />
<br />
This page contains an up to date list of the status of the IRIDIA sbots.<br />
Please update with any problems or other info you find for each s-bot.<br />
<br />
<br />
;IMPORTANT - Stay up to date with [[How_to_avoid_damage_to_the_s-bot]].<br />
(Info on recharging with new circuit board recently added).<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Quick status update == <br />
<br />
* All 13 sbots in IRIDIA<br />
20th Aug 2006<br />
<br />
==Sbots in IRIDIA==<br />
<br />
===sbot 8===<br />
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===sbot 9===<br />
<br />
Check battery levels with volt meter before switching on.<br />
<br />
rehan - 25th April 2006<br />
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===sbot 13===<br />
ok ([[User:Acampo|Acampo]] 14:19, 5 March 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot 19===<br />
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Proximity sensor 0 bent and useless<br />
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===sbot 23===<br />
ir sensor 11 bent inwards. Needs dismantling to fix. Doable by Rehan in IRIDIA.<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 20 August 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot24===<br />
* Gripper will not open or close<br />
* Grinding noise when doing turret rotation<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 14:19, 5 March 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot 30===<br />
*Perspex turret has a bad fit onto camera. Means hard to get consistent centre for libsboteye.<br />
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===sbot 32===<br />
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===sbot 35===<br />
traction sensor not properly working (y negative semiaxis not sensitive at all) --[[User:Vtrianni|vito]] 21:43, 20 June 2006 (CEST)<br />
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===sbot 36===<br />
The turret is backwards - don't use this s-bot. Rehan has to open it to determine which way to rotate the turret back in the correct position.<br />
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===sbot 22===<br />
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===sbot 6===<br />
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===sbot 26===<br />
* Still having network issues after Lausanne checkup ??<br />
<br />
==Sbots in Lausanne==</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=WERCHTER2006&diff=4250
WERCHTER2006
2006-08-25T13:16:01Z
<p>Christensen: /* The Preparation */</p>
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<div>== The Food ==<br />
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*Healthy stuff for compensation of destructive forces<br />
**Pasta Salad (dear italians, feel free to specify what kind of pasta salads would be acceptable. Non-italian contributions will not be taken into account)<br />
***farfalle with tuna, tomatoes, mozzarella, olives, basilic --[[User:Vtrianni|vito]] 14:23, 21 March 2006 (CET)<br />
**Rice Salad<br />
**Normal Salad<br />
**Bread<br />
**Ham, cheese, mayo and moutard<br />
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*Non-healthy stuff for assistance of destructive forces<br />
**Chips<br />
**Chocolate<br />
**Space cakes<br />
**(Is there eatable alcohol!?)<br />
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== The Drinks ==<br />
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*Beeeeeeeeeeeeeer<br />
*Jaegermeister (cause you can always drink it, no matter if cold or hot...)<br />
*Water<br />
*Cola<br />
--[[User:Ciro|Ciro]] 11:23, 21 March 2006 (CET)<br />
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== The Program (partial) ==<br />
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NEW NAMES: BLACK EYED PEAS, SEAN PAUL, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, HARD-FI, SECRET MACHINES. Still some confirmation to be given (9 more names...)<br />
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*Jeudi 29 juin<br />
**Main Stage: The Subways, Deftones, Tool, '''Manu Chao Radio Bemba Sound System''', '''Red Hot Chili Peppers''', '''Black Eyed Peas'''<br />
**Pyramid Marquee: Kaizers Orchestra, Death Cab For Cutie, Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley, The Streets, Roger Sanchez<br />
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*Vendredi 30 juin<br />
**Main Stage: Skin, Kanye West, Sean Paul, Live, Anouk, '''Muse''', The Who<br />
**Pyramid Marquee: Secret Machines, The Kooks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elbow, Mogwai, Radio Soulwax presents: Vitalic, '''Soulwax Niteversions''', Tiga, '''2 Many DJ’s'''<br />
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*Samedi 1 juillet<br />
**Main Stage: Wolfmother, Arsenal, Kelis, Kaiser Chiefs, '''Franz Ferdinand''', '''Placebo''', dEUS<br />
**Pyramid Marquee: Donavon Frankenreiter, '''Arctic Monkeys''', '''Goldfrapp''', Sigur Rós<br />
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*Dimanche 2 juillet<br />
**Main Stage: Absynthe Minded, Eels, Starsailor, '''Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation''', '''Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals''', Hooverphonic, '''Depeche Mode'''<br />
**Pyramid Marquee: Collective Soul, '''Bettye LaVette''', An Pierlé & White Velvet, Laurent Garnier & Bugge Wesseltoft featuring Philippe Nadaud, Hard-Fi, Super Discount<br />
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== The Dress Code ==<br />
<center><br />
[[Image:Emrys.jpg]]<br />
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--[[User:Christensen|Christensen]] 12:46, 21 March 2006 (CET)<br />
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[[Image:MudMan.jpg]]<br />
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--[[User:Ciro|Ciro]] 17:04, 22 March 2006 (CET)<br />
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== The Activities ==<br />
<center><br />
[[Image:Example.jpg]]<br />
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<center><br />
[[Image:mud-volleyball.jpg]]<br />
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--[[User:Ciro|Ciro]] 14:37, 21 March 2006 (CET)</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=SBOT_STATUS&diff=4249
SBOT STATUS
2006-08-24T10:52:31Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==What is this page?==<br />
<br />
This page contains an up to date list of the status of the IRIDIA sbots.<br />
Please update with any problems or other info you find for each s-bot.<br />
<br />
<br />
;IMPORTANT - Stay up to date with [[How_to_avoid_damage_to_the_s-bot]].<br />
(Info on recharging with new circuit board recently added).<br />
<br><br />
<br><br />
<br />
== Quick status update == <br />
<br />
* All 13 sbots in IRIDIA<br />
20th Aug 2006<br />
<br />
==Sbots in IRIDIA==<br />
<br />
===sbot 8===<br />
<br />
===sbot 9===<br />
<br />
Check battery levels with volt meter before switching on.<br />
<br />
rehan - 25th April 2006<br />
<br />
===sbot 13===<br />
ok ([[User:Acampo|Acampo]] 14:19, 5 March 2006 (CET))<br />
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===sbot 19===<br />
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===sbot 23===<br />
ir sensor 11 bent inwards. Needs dismantling to fix. Doable by Rehan in IRIDIA.<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 20 August 2006 (CET))<br />
<br />
===sbot24===<br />
* Gripper will not open or close<br />
* Grinding noise when doing turret rotation<br />
([[User:rogrady|rogrady]] 14:19, 5 March 2006 (CET))<br />
<br />
===sbot 30===<br />
*Perspex turret has a bad fit onto camera. Means hard to get consistent centre for libsboteye.<br />
<br />
===sbot 32===<br />
<br />
===sbot 35===<br />
traction sensor not properly working (y negative semiaxis not sensitive at all) --[[User:Vtrianni|vito]] 21:43, 20 June 2006 (CEST)<br />
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===sbot 36===<br />
The turret is backwards - don't use this s-bot. Rehan has to open it to determine which way to rotate the turret back in the correct position.<br />
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===sbot 22===<br />
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===sbot 6===<br />
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===sbot 26===<br />
* Still having network issues after Lausanne checkup ??<br />
<br />
==Sbots in Lausanne==</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Neural_Network_Tutorials&diff=4212
Neural Network Tutorials
2006-08-11T13:09:26Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>* http://www.dontveter.com<br />
* http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jordan95why.html<br />
* ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html<br />
* http://annevolve.sourceforge.net<br />
* http://www.crespinnnb.com<br />
* http://www.avaye.com<br />
* http://www.ai-junkie.com<br />
* http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr<br />
* http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/burges98tutorial.html<br />
* http://www.makhfi.com<br />
* http://www.gepsoft.com/Article001.htm<br />
* http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg/CarGro1987AppliedOptics.pdf<br />
* http://www.frams.alife.pl<br />
* http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/book.pdf<br />
* http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.pdf<br />
* http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/AI/perceptron.html<br />
* http://vismod.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/facerec/basic.html<br />
* http://ai.ucsd.edu/Tutorial/matlab.html#faces<br />
* http://www.altafkhan.com/ib/intro-to-neural-nets.htm<br />
* http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/rnn.html<br />
* http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/lstm/sld001.htm<br />
* http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html<br />
* http://www.tek271.com/articles/neuralNet/IntoToNeuralNets.html<br />
* http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf<br />
* http://www.genalgo.com<br />
* http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=4211
Main Page
2006-08-11T13:08:02Z
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* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Equivalence]] - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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* '''E-pucks'''<br />
** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
** [[e-puck resources]]<br />
** [[e-puck status]]<br />
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* '''Software'''<br />
** [[Sbot Common Repository]] - Common version control area for all sbot development.<br />
** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ ECCO]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org Ant Colony Optimization]<br />
** [http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CE/about.php Cross Entropy Method]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.research.att.com/~mgcr/grasp/gannbib/gannbib.html GRASP]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ Tabu Search]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network]<br />
* '''Applications'''<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
** [http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/ TSP]<br />
** [http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ TSPLIB95]<br />
** [http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html OR-Library]<br />
* '''Experimental Analysis and Statistics'''<br />
** [http://www.r-project.org/ R project]<br />
** [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006)]<br />
** [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]<br />
* '''Software Development'''<br />
** [http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools]<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU Coding Standards]<br />
** [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL]<br />
** [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion]<br />
** [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen]<br />
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=== Neural Networks ===<br />
* [[Neural Network Tutorials]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
* [[Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page]] - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page.<br />
* [[Write Better English]] - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper.<br />
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* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
** Suggested software for [[Workstation_configuration#For_Mac_OS_X_users | Mac OS X]] users<br />
** List of [[Available_commercial_software | commercial software]] we have in IRIDIA<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Iridia_Backup&diff=4210
Iridia Backup
2006-08-08T15:49:47Z
<p>Christensen: /* Issues to check */</p>
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<div>==Strategy==<br />
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*Full backup once a month (start of the month)<br />
*Differential backup for the rest of the month<br />
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==Locations==<br />
*servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*servicebackup@leibniz:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*iridiaserver@fallopius:/home/iridiaserver/service_backup_dar/<br />
<br />
*Backup system under version control at:<br />
**svn+ssh://rogrady@iridia.ulb.ac.be/usr/local/share/svn_repositories/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Structure==<br />
*Each service has its own directory containing four files:<br />
**<service>_suspend<br />
**<service>_resume<br />
**<service>_backup<br />
**<Service>_restore.<br />
<br />
*The idea is that to backup a service you run the scripts: suspend backup resume and to restore a service you run: suspend restore resume<br />
<br />
*The scripts backup.sh and restore.sh in the top level directory do this in turn for each service. Backup and restore functions, along with config in the form of environment variables lives in the file include.sh. This gets included from each script.<br />
<br />
* If you are running the scripts standalone (not from backup.sh), you must set environment variable SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR.<br />
** e.g. export SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR=/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Todo==<br />
* Increase iridiaserver user quota on fallopius (to 250GB?) - Anders -- '''Done. I have removed the quota for user (use edquota)'''<br />
* Enhance backup scripts to delete data older than certain threshold - Rehan<br />
* Alex - Sort out security on backup scripts: mysql passwd<br />
* Put servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/backup.sh into daily cron - Anders<br />
* Make script logging better, so we can see what happens when there is a failure (email alerts?) - Rehan / Alex<br />
* ssh times out on leibniz, interrupting restore - Anders -- '''Need more info on what goes wrong and when'''<br />
<br />
==Dar Stuff==<br />
;Links<br />
* http://linuxweblog.com/node/283 (Especially comments at end)<br />
* http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.en.html<br />
<br />
==Issues to check==<br />
* Ownership of files (maybe only symlinks), sometimes they are wrong:<br />
** /home/mbiro/public_html/thesis/index.html - this is a symlink and got the wrong ownership (root) when it was copied from iridia to leibniz. Make sure that the owner is mbiro after a backup has been restored.</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Iridia_Backup&diff=4209
Iridia Backup
2006-08-08T15:49:02Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Strategy==<br />
<br />
*Full backup once a month (start of the month)<br />
*Differential backup for the rest of the month<br />
<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*servicebackup@leibniz:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*iridiaserver@fallopius:/home/iridiaserver/service_backup_dar/<br />
<br />
*Backup system under version control at:<br />
**svn+ssh://rogrady@iridia.ulb.ac.be/usr/local/share/svn_repositories/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Structure==<br />
*Each service has its own directory containing four files:<br />
**<service>_suspend<br />
**<service>_resume<br />
**<service>_backup<br />
**<Service>_restore.<br />
<br />
*The idea is that to backup a service you run the scripts: suspend backup resume and to restore a service you run: suspend restore resume<br />
<br />
*The scripts backup.sh and restore.sh in the top level directory do this in turn for each service. Backup and restore functions, along with config in the form of environment variables lives in the file include.sh. This gets included from each script.<br />
<br />
* If you are running the scripts standalone (not from backup.sh), you must set environment variable SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR.<br />
** e.g. export SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR=/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Todo==<br />
* Increase iridiaserver user quota on fallopius (to 250GB?) - Anders -- '''Done. I have removed the quota for user (use edquota)'''<br />
* Enhance backup scripts to delete data older than certain threshold - Rehan<br />
* Alex - Sort out security on backup scripts: mysql passwd<br />
* Put servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/backup.sh into daily cron - Anders<br />
* Make script logging better, so we can see what happens when there is a failure (email alerts?) - Rehan / Alex<br />
* ssh times out on leibniz, interrupting restore - Anders -- '''Need more info on what goes wrong and when'''<br />
<br />
==Dar Stuff==<br />
;Links<br />
* http://linuxweblog.com/node/283 (Especially comments at end)<br />
* http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.en.html<br />
<br />
==Issues to check==<br />
* Ownership of files (maybe only symlinks)<br />
** /home/mbiro/public_html/thesis/index.html - this is a symlink and got the wrong ownership when it was copied from iridia to leibniz. Make sure that the owner is mbiro after a backup has been restored.</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4203
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-07-11T14:18:52Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Roderich<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I will present the likely theme for my Phd: 'Swarm Control'. Research in Swarm robotics is currently focused on producing increasingly sophisticated autonomous behaviour in robotic swarms. However intelligent robot swarms become, humans will still for the forseeable future need some way of controlling these swarms for them to be useful 'tools'. The design of such control mechanisms is not obvious, since in distributed swarm systems there is no natural mapping from human goals to the robots' internal representation of the world.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Let's discuss Francesco request about new s-bots specifications and prepare a document for him (Marco)<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I will try to present the results of the analysis of the mechanisms employed by the robots to solve the navigation task I described the previous time. My presentation will be very very informal. Please, do not expect too much since I'm particularly busy working on other issues<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
'''''No more meetings before September!'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Iridia_Backup&diff=4202
Iridia Backup
2006-07-11T13:58:19Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Strategy==<br />
<br />
*Full backup once a month (start of the month)<br />
*Differential backup for the rest of the month<br />
<br />
<br />
==Locations==<br />
*servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*servicebackup@leibniz:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/<br />
*iridiaserver@fallopius:/home/iridiaserver/service_backup_dar/<br />
<br />
*Backup system under version control at:<br />
**svn+ssh://rogrady@iridia.ulb.ac.be/usr/local/share/svn_repositories/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Structure==<br />
*Each service has its own directory containing four files:<br />
**<service>_suspend<br />
**<service>_resume<br />
**<service>_backup<br />
**<Service>_restore.<br />
<br />
*The idea is that to backup a service you run the scripts: suspend backup resume and to restore a service you run: suspend restore resume<br />
<br />
*The scripts backup.sh and restore.sh in the top level directory do this in turn for each service. Backup and restore functions, along with config in the form of environment variables lives in the file include.sh. This gets included from each script.<br />
<br />
* If you are running the scripts standalone (not from backup.sh), you must set environment variable SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR.<br />
** e.g. export SERVICE_BACKUP_SYSTEM_DIR=/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system<br />
<br />
==Todo==<br />
* Increase iridiaserver user quota on fallopius (to 250GB?) - Anders -- '''Done. I have removed the quota for user (use edquota)'''<br />
* Enhance backup scripts to delete data older than certain threshold - Rehan<br />
* Alex - Sort out security on backup scripts: mysql passwd<br />
* Put servicebackup@iridia:/home/servicebackup/iridia_service_backup_system/backup.sh into daily cron - Anders<br />
* Make script logging better, so we can see what happens when there is a failure (email alerts?) - Rehan / Alex<br />
* ssh times out on leibniz, interrupting restore - Anders -- '''Need more info on what goes wrong and when'''<br />
<br />
==Dar Stuff==<br />
;Links<br />
* http://linuxweblog.com/node/283 (Especially comments at end)<br />
* http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.en.html</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4169
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-06-27T10:42:14Z
<p>Christensen: /* Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Roderich<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I will present the likely theme for my Phd: 'Swarm Control'. Research in Swarm robotics is currently focused on producing increasingly sophisticated autonomous behaviour in robotic swarms. However intelligent robot swarms become, humans will still for the forseeable future need some way of controlling these swarms for them to be useful 'tools'. The design of such control mechanisms is not obvious, since in distributed swarm systems there is no natural mapping from human goals to the robots' internal representation of the world.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4113
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-06-16T06:58:29Z
<p>Christensen: /* Wednesday 21th June 2006 - Rehan */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Roderich<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4068
Administration weekly meetings
2006-05-16T10:14:57Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 18th May 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Max: IRIDIA mailing lists (Staff, Guests, PhD Students, Optimization Group, Twodee) moved to GNU/Mailman<br />
** https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/<br />
* Marco: BNAIC: who is submitting/presenting? FNRS Comp Int day: who is submitting/presenting?<br />
* Christos: I will present the structure and explain how we will be using the IRIDIA SUPPLEMENTARY PAGE, plus I will refer to the things that each one should provide and things that people should do with respect to cited pages in papers, so please do not be absent! :)<br />
** http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/supp<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 25th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 1st June 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 8th June 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 15th June 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 22nd June 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 29th June 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
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==Thursday 6th July 2006 ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 13th July 2006 ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 20th July 2006 ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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* Max<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Max</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Insurance_while_travelling_abroad&diff=4067
Insurance while travelling abroad
2006-05-16T10:13:03Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>When travelling abroad for business reasons, you are covered by ULB's insurance. If you travel to countries like the States, you might want to take out an extra insurance in order to cover the high medical costs.<br />
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You can read more on [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/assurances/ ULB's insurance site]<br />
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Also, you can [[Media:InsurAttest.pdf | download a brief overview of how you are covered, phone numbers, etc.]]</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Insurance_while_travelling_abroad&diff=4066
Insurance while travelling abroad
2006-05-16T10:12:39Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>When travelling abroad for business reasons, you are covered by ULB's insurance. If you travel to countries like the States, you might want to take out an extra insurance in order to cover the high medical costs.<br />
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You can read more on [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/assurances/ ULB's insurance site]<br />
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Also, you can [[Media:InsurAttest.pdf download a brief overview of how you are covered, phone numbers, etc.]]</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=File:InsurAttest.pdf&diff=4065
File:InsurAttest.pdf
2006-05-16T10:10:42Z
<p>Christensen: ULB's insurance policy, signed 2005</p>
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<div>ULB's insurance policy, signed 2005</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=4064
Main Page
2006-05-16T10:06:30Z
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** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance<br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
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** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
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* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
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** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=4057
Administration weekly meetings
2006-05-11T13:39:30Z
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<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
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[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
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==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Max: IRIDIA mailing lists (Staff, Guests, PhD Students, Optimization Group) moved to GNU/Mailman<br />
** https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 25th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 1st June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 8th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 15th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 22nd June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 29th June 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 6th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 13th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 20th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 27th July 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Previous_administration_meeting&diff=4056
Previous administration meeting
2006-05-11T13:36:35Z
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<div>==Wednesday 9th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* Timing of these administration meetings<br />
* Career development plans and the technology (Alex)<br />
* Upcoming conferences<br />
* New wiki-pages<br />
* Coffee machine<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* Administration meetings have been moved to '''Thursdays 10h30'''<br />
* ''Online career development plans:'' Alex is going to present the technology next meeting<br />
* ''New Wiki pages:''<br />
** [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* ''Coffee machine:'' Marco is going to check prices at Illy and next meeting we are going to vote on which machine to buy<br />
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==Thursday 17th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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* Alex : make the wiki faster : how ? software / hardware solutions ?<br />
* Alex : security is never perfect... do we have a daily backup of the database (ie all wiki contents) ?<br />
* Marco Dorigo (MD): I would like to discuss the "duration" of MEETOPT and MEETROBOTS meetings. <br />
It seems to me that we should set a firm limit to the talk and discussion parts. May be 30 min each? <br />
* MD: Time change for MEETADMIN of Dec 8, 2005<br />
* MD: People should identify themselves when producing items in this list<br />
* Usage policy for HD space on the rack/cluster<br />
* Online career development plan<br />
* Coffee machine: This time we will choose which one to buy <br />
* IRIDIA Christmas dinner<br />
* IRIDIA lab webpage - It is not reall necessary to discuss this point as it is already in the works since long (but before we work on it we need to have the database ready and filled, which will take a few weeks more) and it will be finalised sooner or later!<br />
* New conferences<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''Faster Wiki''': We are in the process of buying new hardware, that should solve the problem.<br />
* '''Wiki Security'': Security and network infrastructure is changing, backups, security, etc. are getting reviewed and reimplemented.<br />
* '''Duration of weekly meetings'': 30 mins for presentation, 30 mins for discussion MAXIMUM. Will be enforced.<br />
* '''Schedule change''': 8th of Dec. the admin meeting will begin at 10h00 instead of 10h30, due to a clash with a lecture.<br />
* '''Rack HD space policy''': If the free disk space becomes less than a certain threshhold, a mail is sent to all containing statistics on who is (ab)using all the space. A mail is sent monthly to everyone listing who is using how much. In case this does not work quotes will be implemented.<br />
** Max: I have implemented two cron jobs on majorana: the first check every hour if the available space is less than 30% and in case send an email to all_AT_iridia, the second is the monthly report on the status of the used space sent by email to all_AT_iridia.<br />
* '''On line career development plan''': Go to the [[StudentsIRIDIA]] page and fill out your career development plan. Currently, the pages are public, but soon this should change (Alex + Anders).<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': We are going to buy an Illy Classic - lab pays 500 EUR the students pay 20 EUR each (Christos is responsible).<br />
* '''Lab webpage''': Currently work is being done on it - DB should be ready around New Years and then content has to be filled in.<br />
* '''New Conferences''':<br />
** See [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA]]<br />
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==Thursday 24th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki Pages<br />
* New Conferences<br />
* Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?<br />
* Anders: Business cards<br />
* Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB<br />
* Alex : database problems. I asked some info to Halva on backup, but at the moment everything is fuzzy.<br />
* Alex : I think it would be nice to setup a wiki page with all the seminars held in Brussels. I am sure we miss many nice opportunities.<br />
* Misc <br />
** Paola's and Christos' dinner and party<br />
** Christos: Coffee machine payment<br />
* Anders: How to use the new coffee machine<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]]<br />
** [[Seminars]]<br />
* '''New Conferences''': None.<br />
* '''Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?'''<br />
** Try to upgrade one node and if it works, upgrade the rest.<br />
* '''Anders: Business cards'''<br />
** MD is going to check prices.<br />
* '''Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB'''<br />
** Reorganization within the ULB might result in IRIDIA being merged with two other labs. More will be known in January.<br />
* '''Alex : database problems'''<br />
** Alex is trying to repair the DB.<br />
* '''Wiki page on all the seminars held in Brussels''':<br />
** Please update the page when you hear about seminars, or add links to pages with seminars to the [[Seminars]] Wiki-page.<br />
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==Thursday 1st December -- CANCELLED!==<br />
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Alex -> attending a symposium in Paris<br />
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==Thursday 8th December -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco: I am currently in Dublin ...<br />
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==Thursday 15th December ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* '''Christos''': There is 40 EUR left from the coffee machine contribution, let's discuss how to spend this money, one idea is we buy some common lab coffee which we can all use, or even to buy a couple of cakes would not be a bad idea. Lets discuss this cause in there there's ~1.9 e from everybody!<br />
* '''Max''': Issues with NFS on the IRIDIA Cluster. <br />
** The solution adopted by Prasanna for his experiments relieves some "stress" from the harddrive (bottleneck for NFS). <br />
* '''Max''': Memory for the nodes of IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** I have installed on r17 4*512MB and on r04 8*256MB. Some quick test seems to show some small difference in performance. <br />
* '''Rodi''': Policy for IRIDIA Tech Report<br />
* '''Marco/Mauro''': Backup databases<br />
* '''Anders''': Coffee machine and decalcification?<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages:'''<br />
** Updated LaTeX package for technical reports - can be downloaded from [[IRIDIA Technical reports]].<br />
* '''New Conferences'''<br />
** "IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems" added to [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''Cluster and NFS''': Frequent reads/writing on the NFS on the cluster is slow. Use /tmp (local on each node) if you want to use intermediate files. Can give a x3 speed-up. A Wiki page should be made on these type of programming-for-the-cluster-tricks (Max).<br />
* '''Cluster and RAM''': Max and Rodi are currently testing different memory configurations for the cluster.<br />
* '''IRIDIA technical reports and dates''': The date of the technical report is the day on which you get the technical report number from Muriel. This should prevent situations where a technical report from e.g. 2004 references publications from 2005. <br />
* '''Database backup''': The DB backup should be done using mysqldump and not by copying files. Alex is responsible.<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': Tom is responsible for hunting down the coffee machine manual and the decalcify the machine.<br />
* '''New permanent point for the weekly admin meetings''': Rodi suggested to add a new default item to the agendas for the admin meetings, namely "Announcements and Publications". The idea is that if anyone is about to publish something or have published something then they briefly tell everyonbe else about it. Rodi's creative suggestion was accepted without much bloodshed.<br />
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==Thursday 12th January ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders:''' Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster - it seems like they need to be balanced if the "long" jobs are supposed to ever finish.<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster maintenance - I need to shut down the cluster for 1 day in order to performe some maintenance tasks (we received the new RAM and the new power cord) <br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[IRIDIA Technical reports]]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications: ''' Rodi, Tom, Francisco and Anders had new publications.<br />
* '''Anders: Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster'''<br />
** The cluster queues will be adjusted.<br />
* '''Max: Cluster maintenance ''' <br />
** Don't submit any jobs to the cluster before the maintenance has been performed. An estimate for the time need for the jobs currenty in the queue is needed by the submitters. Max will let everyone know when the cluster maintenance is going to take place once he knows.<br />
** Status on Jan 13 - Prasanna's job should finish in 2-3 days; Tom has not communicate me still a forcast<br />
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==Thursday 19th January ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster and queueing system: In order to avoid that a node is chocked by too many concurrent jobs (this was happening when nodes were using heavily the swap space), we need to tune the number of slots per queue. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#For_Apple_computer_owners For Apple computer owners]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Programming_tips_for_the_cluster Programming tips for the cluster]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#Wi-Fi_network_configuration IRIDIA Wi-Fi network]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Cluster and queueing system''' <br />
** 1GB of memory has been added to each node of the cluster. Now each node has 2GB or RAM, 4.5GB of swap space, and 20GB of /tmp space for local data storage. Nodes from r02 to r17 have 4x512MB DDR ECC REG DIMM, while nodes from r18 to r33 have 8*256MB DDR ECC REG DIMM.<br />
** The queues have been reniced like this: short=nice 2, medium=nice 3, long=nice 3, par=nice 2<br />
** The slots for queues have been changed like this: 3 slots in the short queue, 2 slots in the medium queue, 1 slot in the long queue and 1 slot in the parallel queue. We now have maximum 7 concurrent jobs per node (with an average space in RAM of 290MB per process) and 224 maximal concurrent jobs in the whole system.<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 26th January ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders''': Electronic journal access<br />
* '''Anders''': Business cards<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[Cloning a Debian server]]<br />
** Thomas and Alex are going to reorganize the Wiki because the frontpage is cluttering up<br />
* New conferences<br />
** 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference - deadline 1st Feb!! (see [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]])<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
** Ciro is getting married<br />
* Electronic journal access<br />
** Through Muriel's computer<br />
* Business cards<br />
** Marco is going to put an item on the agenda once the money for business cards has been found.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd February ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
'''Alex''' : a page about libsboteye<br />
'''Alex''' : Rehan announced a HOWTO about assembling/disassembling a sbot<br />
* '''Marco''': Coming paper submissions page<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Marco''': We should add a wikipage with planned paper submission, deadlines for submission, and info on CPU usage requirements. <br />
* '''Marco''': New digital projector. <br />
* '''Marco''': When will the new server be operational? <br />
* '''Marco''': IRIDIA backup to be put in another building? <br />
* '''Alex''' : More space for backup ? <br />
* '''Alex''' : Raid5 backup would make me feel safier.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People that will be absent:'''''<br />
<br />
Rodi, Alex?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[Libsboteye]]<br />
** [[SBot Disassembly and Reassembly HOWTO]]<br />
** [[Coming paper submissions]] - if you are going to publish something, but down the conference and you name on this page.<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''When will the new server be operational?'''<br />
** Not tomorrow but within 1-2 months. <br />
* '''IRIDIA backup to be put in another building?''': <br />
** MD will check with the staff at the other location. Also it should be checked if there is enough bandwidth to run a backup server from that location.<br />
* '''Other:'''<br />
** This wiki is slow. We are going to buy some more RAM for the current IRIDIA server.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 9th February ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max''': nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]. <br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Anders<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 2nd March -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 9th March 2006-- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 16th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Alex<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 6th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 13th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* Shervin proposes to discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
MARCO DORIGO<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
* MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list<br />
* MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school<br />
* Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Marco Montes de Oca<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* ''New Wiki pages''<br />
** Max: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Submission_tips_for_the_cluster Submission tips for the cluster]<br />
* ''New conferences''<br />
** CIL conference, one paper from the optimization group and one from the robotics nerds should be submitted. Dealline: Beginning of June.<br />
* ''Announcements and Publications''<br />
** Elio and Christos had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
** Anders had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
* ''Arrangement of the coffee room''<br />
** Thomas, Mauro, Carlotta, Elio, Shervin, and Francisco C. Santos are meeting Friday at 14h00 to discuss different options. Their results will be presented at the next admin meeting<br />
* ''MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list''<br />
** If you want to discuss the assignment of your responsibilities, talk to Marco D.<br />
** If you want to add more tasks, talk to Marco D.<br />
* ''MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school''<br />
** See under ''New conferences above''<br />
* ''Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]''<br />
** And nobody will in the future.<br />
* '''''ADDITIONAL POINT'''''<br />
** Remember to inform Christos of any URLs referenced in your papers!<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Robotics_weekly_meetings&diff=4055
Robotics weekly meetings
2006-05-11T13:31:13Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Purpose==<br />
<br />
# '''Community'''. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab<br />
# '''Research'''. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.<br />
# '''Admin'''. Lab administration.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Format==<br />
<br />
# Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)<br />
#* Work you have been doing<br />
#* Reading you have been doing in the context of your work<br />
#* Other reading on something you are passionate about<br />
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 mins)<br />
<br />
<br />
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:<br />
* Send round material to be read beforehand.<br />
* Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.<br />
* Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.<br />
<br><br />
<br />
==Timing & Attendance==<br />
<br />
The weekly meetings '''ALWAYS''' take place on<br />
<br />
<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center><br />
<br />
Unless:<br />
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or<br />
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.<br />
<br />
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.<br />
<br />
'''Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting''' (no later than the Friday before). <br />
<br />
If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Previous Meetings==<br />
<br />
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 21th June 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* <br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Previous_MEETROBOT_meetings&diff=4054
Previous MEETROBOT meetings
2006-05-11T13:28:12Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
==Wednesday 10th May 2006 - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I am going to present an extension of my chaining controller. In the original version robots just form chains from the nest. In the new controller I introduce a very simple "prey enhancement" mechanism where the robots activate their LEDs when they perceive the nest, and in this way enhance the area in which the prey can be perceived. I present the results from an experiment I conducted in simulation.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 3rd May 2006 - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I'm going to rehearse two presentations that have to be prepared for the 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), which is held in two weeks in Florida. Each presentation should last 13 minutes + discussion.<br />
#* Abstract: This paper addresses the cooperative transport of a heavy object by a group of mobile robots. We present a system in which group members lacking knowledge about the position of the transport target exploit physical interactions with other members of the group that have such knowledge. This is the first such system to achieve a performance superior to that of a passive caster. The system is fully decentralized and the information flow between the robots is limited to physical interactions. The robots have no knowledge about their relative positions. A comprehensive experimental study with up to six physical robots confirms the effectiveness, reliability, and robustness of the system. Finally, the system is examined in rough terrain conditions.<br />
#* Abstract: We present a first attempt to accomplish a simple object manipulation task using the self-reconfigurable robotic system swarm-bot. The number of modular entities involved, their global shape or size and their internal structure are not pre-determined, but result from a self-organized process in which the modules autonomously grasp each other and/or an object. The modules are autonomous in perception, control, action, and power. We present quantitative results, obtained with six physical modules, that confirm the utility of self-assembling robots in a concrete task.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
These are the two papers. However, the presentations should be self-contained.<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/icra06_568_final.pdf<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/icra06_922_final.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 26th April 2006 - Christos ==<br />
I will talk about current work on the evolution of communication for heterogeneous robots, trying to link it with older work and also with what I have in mind as future goal, but also on a new self-assembly method we are working on with Anders, where the NN takes care of everything, without use of camera. I will also elaborate on the doors the latter effort might open once successful.<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 19th April 2006 - Elio ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* I presents the results of a series of simulation concerning the evolution of controllers for heterogeneous robots required to coordinate their actions in order to approach a target. This work, carried out by myself, Christos Ampatzis, Federico Vicentini and Marco Dorigo, has been recently submitted to SAB06.<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
If you are interested in doing some reading about this subject, you can find in my room printed copies of the paper submitted to the conference.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 13th April 2006 - Anders ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Controller design<br />
#* Palet lifting and transport<br />
#* Evolving self-assembly<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* E-pucks<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
None<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* MarcoD, Rehan<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 6th April 2006 - Rehan ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Controller - Two robots adaptively rotate to overcome a hill<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Rehan - Common Interface Wiki Page<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* None<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* MarcoD<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 29th March 2006 - Alexandre ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* The presentation is about the results of my experiments on negotiation of direction for cooperative transport.<br />
#* I'll explain the experiments, present and discuss the results, and also ask your opinion about future work.<br />
#* The (say) ten last minutes I'll present you the next work I plan to do.<br />
<br />
Open document presentation (openoffice2) available : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/nego021.odp<br />
The same as a pdf : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/nego021.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
Take a look at the paper submitted to ANTS2006, it summarizes the results obtained in the negotiation experiment.<br />
(has been removed now)<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Christos, MarcoD<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Shervin would like to rehearse the talk he will give next week at the IAS-9 conference. The talk is very similar to the one given in October, so for those who already followed it by then it might be quite boring to hear the same stuff again....<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Roderich would like to (prepare and) rehearse his talk "Self-assembly of Mobile Robots - From Swarm-bot to Super-mechano Colony" to be held on March 7, 2006 at the 9th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-9, Tokyo.<br />
<br />
The talk will be quick and can be followed without reading the paper (see link).<br />
<br />
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~rgross/reading_material.pdf<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco D, Thomas<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*'''Marco''': I will briefly present the Swarmanoid project: goals, structure and allocated resources (15 minutes max, everybody invited, also optimization people, so that everybody is aware of Swarmanoid).<br />
<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
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==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* '''Christos:''' Given that I do not have something completely new to present, I will discuss 2-3 intresting points that came out of the work presented at the previous talk. I will also complement Elio's talk discussing a possible interesting scenario. Some ideas for my future work will also be given.<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Fixed-point: How to handle precision arithmetic on the s-bot without the use of floats/doubles.<br />
#* '''Rodi and Anders:''' Cooperative transport of an object on a pallet, status and ideas. <br />
#* '''Alex:''' proudly announces that it is possible to detect reliably a direction pointed by a robot using visual communication (LED-camera) <br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Elio<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
*<br />
This week I am going to give a "VERY INFORMAL" (please note the "informal") presentation on some work I'm currently doing on the evolution of signaling using Evolutionary Robotics methods. Note that, the meeting will be strictly focused on the description of my experiments (which, unfortunately for me, they are not very successful at the moment). So, if you are not interested in listening my sorrowful talk, you can certainly miss it.<br />
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# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==<br />
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This meeting is going to be a bit technical.<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Simulation<br />
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation<br />
#* Discussion on simulation<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
<br />
No reading is required, but I would recommend that people interested in or working with simulation to read Jacobi's [http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~wizard/AM04/_I_Articles/11_csrp457.ps.Z "Evolutionary Robotics and the Radical Envelope-of-Noise Hypothesis" (.ps.Z)], (1997), Journal of Adaptive Behavior vol. 6, No. 2, 325-368.<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Rehan<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
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==Wednesday 18th January - Rehan ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* Sbot Common Interface<br />
** Design Principles Design<br />
** Implementation (Current)<br />
** Live Demonstration<br />
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# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
*<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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[[Media:Common_interface_presentation.pdf | Download the presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
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==Wednesday 11th January - Alexandre ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
* I will introduce a new experiment that involves a group of robots trying to estimate collectively<br />
the direction of the nest, whereas they can not see it anymore.<br />
* After a quick description of the experiment I'll introduce a set of simple behavioural rules devised to produce the desired collective behaviour.<br />
* Then I'll present some simulation results, and describe how the group of robots manages to estimate the direction<br />
of the nest, and how it behaves in varying conditions (noise of the system, number of robots, duration of the experiment...).<br />
* Lastly I will discuss some tradeoff problems : robots estimate better the direction<br />
of the nest if they are numerous, but on the other hand they have difficulties to synchronize for achieving a collective prey retrieval.<br />
* And I will discuss some scalability and bifurcation features of the system<br />
<br />
* If I have some time, but it is not likely, I will present you my latest results on optimal foraging<br />
and improvements I did, following the suggestions of many of you.<br />
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# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* '''Anders:''' Robotics room server<br />
#* '''Anders:''' s-bot status (Rehan is going to kidnap the robots?)<br />
#* '''Anders:''' BibTeX file for robotics conferences and journals.<br />
#* '''Marco:''' Who takes care of the e-pucks?.<br />
#* '''Marco:''' NASA wants to cooperate with us.<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Alex_present_11_01_2006.pdf | Download the presentation (.pdf)]]<br />
<br />
* '''Anders:''' Robotics room server<br />
** There is a new computer in the arena. It needs to be installed and configured. For people who do not have laptops and for the overhead camera, etc.<br />
* '''Anders:''' s-bot status (Rehan is going to kidnap the robots?)<br />
** Rehan is (maybe) going to take all the s-bots to Switzerland the final week of January.<br />
* '''Anders:''' BibTeX file for robotics conferences and journals.<br />
** A common BibTeX DB is already on the way. In a months time we should be able to test it.<br />
* '''Marco:''' Who takes care of the e-pucks?.<br />
** The e-pucks will arrive soon. Noone volunteered to test them. Marco will pick one at random. <br />
* '''Marco:''' NASA wants to cooperate with us.<br />
** IRIDIA is likely going to sign a contract with NASA for a number of experiments, in simulation and on the real robots, for transporting (lifting) building material on the moon.<br />
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==Wednesday 14th December - Shervin ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*There's not too much that changed since my last talk.<br />
#*I will (very) shortly present the reimplemented version of my controller on twodee,<br />
#*talk about the experiments which I prepared and which I intend to run before xmas,<br />
#*introduce the idea for a new controller.<br />
#*If there's any interest I can show photos from Cuba....<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* The last meeting before Christmas (Dec 21st)<br />
#* MEETROBOT 2006<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:TalkIridia_14.Dec.2005.pdf | Download presentation (pdf)]]<br />
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* '''The last meeting of the year (next week)''': Paola and Federico are leaving so we are going to make this sad day by having a lot of fun starting at 16h00.<br />
*'''MEETROBOT 2006''': The weekly robotics meetings will continue the 11th of January 2006.<br />
*'''NASA and swarm-robotics''':<br />
** Interview: http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/hopping_microbots.html<br />
** NASA's page: http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1798&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0<br />
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==Wednesday 7th December - Movie ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
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<br />
'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
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<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco: I am currently flying from Lyon to Dublin<br />
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==Wednesday 30th November - Roderich ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
# '''Urgent stuff'''<br />
#*MARCO: We need to briefly discuss the ongoing reparation of our s-bots<br />
<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*This talk is related to my visit to Japan. I will provide an overview about:<br />
#*reasons to go there<br />
#*how to get funding (JSPS programs)<br />
#*some robotics research labs<br />
#*my research and the environment<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#*<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* NONE<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Rodis_presentation_Nov_2005.pdf|Download presentation (pdf ~40MB)]]<br />
* For the real s-bots the batteries are going to be replaced.<br />
* The common interface is ready. It currently works on the real s-bots and in the TwoDee simulator.<br />
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==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* Communication - some brief overview, some definitions (this was supposed to have been discussed some months ago when nobody showed up to discuss a related paper I proposed, I guess this time with some "pressure" you will all be there and super-motivated and interested, what a wonderful world...<br />
#* I am going to talk on my work on the Evolution of Communication in cases where there is no fitness reward for signalling-reaction to the signal. What conditions seem to favour the evolution of communication?<br />
#* An idea for extention, an intro for my next talk, maybe?<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Arena camera<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
*<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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[[Media:Christos_presentation_nov_2005.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
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* No news on the arena camera<br />
* Rehan and Anders are still working (hard) on the common s-bot interface.<br />
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==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#*Title: General, Universal, even worst Global: I'm against, better ANTI-.<br />
<br />
The talk is meant to be a brief introduction mixed with some personal conclusions concerning the Theory of Direct Perception and its significance in the domain of Evolutionary Robotics.<br />
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'''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
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* Arena camera<br />
* Common interface<br />
* OMiss and 2D kinematics<br />
* Duration of the meetings<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
* None for the moment, I am happy to suggest you some readings if you feel interested in what I will talk about.<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Marco, Federico, Rodi<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Etuci-iridia16-11-2005.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
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* Arena camera: Federico was not present - postponed to next meeting<br />
* Common interface: Rehan and Anders are working on it now.<br />
* OMiss and 2D kinematics: It is a good idea, but no one at IRIDIA really needs it now, and no one has the time to work on it.<br />
* Duration of the meetings: We will try to limit the meetings to 60 mins.<br />
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==Wednesday 9th November - Federico==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* ER approach for real world apllication: reference framework for vehicle controller<br />
#* Some requirements in my navigation task: patrolling, collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance<br />
#* Multirobot context: testing the Quinn experiment. Simulation and results with real s-bots<br />
#* Discussion/feedback on tools/approaches selected and on future work<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Arena camera<br />
#* Common interface<br />
#* OMiss and 2D kinematics<br />
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'''''Reading material'''''<br />
# [[Media:Pellecchia_making_driver_modeling.pdf|Reference for my simulator benchmarking: the Quinn experiment @ Sussex (pdf)]]<br />
# [[Media:Quinn_evolving_teamwork.pdf|Reference for automotive navigation usign evolutionary approach (pdf)]]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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N/A<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
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[[Media:Federicos_presentation_2005_rwm.pdf | Download the presentation (pdf)]]<br />
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* We had no time to discuss the points on the agenda, so they have been postponed till next meeting.<br />
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==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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# '''IRIDIA Admin'''<br />
#* Coffee Machine<br />
#* New Wiki Pages<br />
#* Next week...<br />
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''<br />
#* What is robotic pattern formation?<br />
#* Potential applications using the Swarm Bot robotic platform<br />
#* Discussion / feedback on my research direction<br />
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''<br />
#* Sbot / Simulator programmatic interfaces<br />
#* Buying a computer+flatscreen for the robot room (or taking one that is not used)<br />
#* Any spare monitor for Rodi?<br />
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<br />
'''''Location'''''<br />
Ping pong room<br />
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'''''Reading Material'''''<br />
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* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio, Thomas<br />
<br><br><br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media:Pattern_presentation.pdf|Download Presentation (PDF)]]<br />
<br />
* ''Coffee machine'': Various options available. Ciro is taking care of calling the people in charge of the ULB expresso machine deal.<br />
* ''New wiki pages:''<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]]<br />
* ''Career developement plans online'': Alex is going to propose a technology for the next meeting, which allows us to have up-to-date career development plans online, but only accessible by the student in question and his/her supervisor.<br />
* ''Arena camera:'' Federico is going to look into camera software and hardware for next weeks meeting (for the arena, since the movies shot with the current camera are of poor quality.<br />
* ''OMiss with 2D dynamics:'' We all believe that having the OMiss work with a 2D dynamics engine as well as ODE would be a good idea for many experiments. It might take too much time to implement though and no one seemed too keen on actually implementing it. We will see at the next meeting.<br />
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==Wednesday 26th October - Anders==<br />
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'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''<br />
<br />
Dependability and fault-tolerance in Robotics:<br />
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* What is fault-tolerance and dependability?<br />
* What has been done in robotics?<br />
* How could fault tolerance be implemented in a swarm robotics context?<br />
<br />
'''''Administration Issues'''''<br />
<br />
* Coffee machine<br />
* New documents on the Wiki.<br />
* Next week...<br />
* The new e-pucks<br />
* Simulators and swarm-bot interfaces<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Elio, Rodi, Christos<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
[[Media :Fault_Tolerant_and_Dependable_Robotics.pdf|Download Presentation(PDF)]]<br />
<br />
* ''General:'' The topics on the agenda, which are of general interest are moved to the beginning of the meeting, so that non-robotics people can attend at a fixed hour each week.<br />
* ''Coffee machine'': <br />
** Marco buys a new one when he comes across a good, new coffee machine (suggestions are very welcome)<br />
** Mauro is in charge of sending the current, broken machine to someone who can repair it.<br />
* ''New Wiki-pages'':<br />
** [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - how to publish technical reports at IRIDIA + LaTeX styles etc.<br />
** [[Access to Digital Libraries]]<br />
** [[Media:Quand_quelque_chose_est_casse_sur_le_sbot.pdf | When something happens to the s-bots (French, pdf)]] - A document list common hardware problems and their solutions. Can also be found in the [[SBOT FAQ]] and the [[SBOT STATUS]] sections.<br />
* ''Wiki security'': For certain parts of the Wiki it would be convenient to have access control, so that only people from IRIDIA can access those pages. Anders will look into that.<br />
* ''E-pucks'': All the available info on the e-pucks will be put on the Wiki.<br />
* ''Sbot/simulator interfaces'': Rehan is going to create a repository for the common sbot interface and it is going to be implemented in TwoDee.<br />
* ''OMiss simulator'': Rehan is going to create a Wiki page on checking out and compiling OMiss (the new simulator based on ODE).<br />
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==Wednesday 19th October 2005 - Alexandre==<br />
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'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''<br />
<br />
The main topic is optimal multi-foraging in swarm robotics.<br />
<br />
* I will present my latest developments and results<br />
* Go again through goals, motivations and bibliography (renewed).<br />
* Discussion about the context of this work, possible applications ?<br />
* I might present, if there is time left, my next experiment. <br />
<br />
You can take a look at this very quick summary of my current research : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/alex_research.pdf<br />
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'''''Administration Issues'''''<br />
<br />
* Coffee machines<br />
* Format of these meetings<br />
* Standard programatic interface for simulators / real sbots.<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
Rodi<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
<br />
You can [[Media:ExpIndependant.pdf | download a copy of Alex's presentation]]<br />
<br />
* The optimization group will have their own weekly presentations, but the will invite robotics people to participate, just like the swarm-bots presentations are open to optimization people. Seminars will continue as always and presentations might be given both at weekly meetings and at seminars. <br />
* Anders brings his coffee machine to test it. In case it pass the Italian test, we will buy one while the super-machine is being fixed.<br />
* Simulators and a standard interface for simulators:<br />
** Rehan and Alex are going to talk to Vito and make a plan<br />
** Rehan proposed Halva's interface, which he is going to send to Ciro and Anders for discussion on the next meeting</div>
Christensen
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2006-05-04T11:55:56Z
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<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
* MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list<br />
* MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school<br />
* Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Marco Montes de Oca<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* ''New Wiki pages''<br />
** Max: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Submission_tips_for_the_cluster Submission tips for the cluster]<br />
* ''New conferences''<br />
** CIL conference, one paper from the optimization group and one from the robotics nerds should be submitted. Dealline: Beginning of June.<br />
* ''Announcements and Publications''<br />
** Elio and Christos had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
** Anders had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
* ''Arrangement of the coffee room''<br />
** Thomas, Mauro, Carlotta, Elio, Shervin, and Francisco C. Santos are meeting Friday at 14h00 to discuss different options. Their results will be presented at the next admin meeting<br />
* ''MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list''<br />
** If you want to discuss the assignment of your responsibilities, talk to Marco D.<br />
** If you want to add more tasks, talk to Marco D.<br />
* ''MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school''<br />
** See under ''New conferences above''<br />
* ''Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]''<br />
** And nobody will in the future.<br />
* '''''ADDITIONAL POINT'''''<br />
** Remember to inform Christos of any URLs referenced in your papers!<br />
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<br><br><br />
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==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
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2006-05-04T11:55:30Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 4th May 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
* MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list<br />
* MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school<br />
* Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Marco Montes de Oca<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* ''New Wiki pages''<br />
** Max: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Submission_tips_for_the_cluster Submission tips for the cluster]<br />
* ''New conferences''<br />
** CIL conference, one paper from the optimization group and one from the robotics nerds should be submitted. Dealline: Beginning of June.<br />
* ''Announcements and Publications''<br />
** Elio and Christos had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
** Anders had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
* ''Arrangement of the coffee room''<br />
** Thomas, Mauro, Carlotta, Elio, Shervin, and Francisco C. Santos are meeting Friday at 14h00 to discuss different options. Their results will be presented at the next admin meeting<br />
* ''MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list''<br />
** If you want to discuss the assignment of your responsibilities, talk to Marco D.<br />
** If you want to add more tasks, talk to Marco D.<br />
* ''MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school''<br />
** See under ''New conferences above''<br />
* ''Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]''<br />
** And nobody will in the future.<br />
* '''''ADDITIONAL POINT'''''<br />
** Remember to inform Christos of any URLs referenced in your papers!<br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
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2006-05-04T11:54:21Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 4th May 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
* MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list<br />
* MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school<br />
* Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
* Marco Montes de Oca<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* ''New Wiki pages''<br />
** Max: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Submission_tips_for_the_cluster Submission tips for the cluster]<br />
* ''New conferences''<br />
** CIL conference, one paper from the optimization group and one from the robotics nerds should be submitted. Dealline: Beginning of June.<br />
* ''Announcements and Publications''<br />
** Elio and Christos had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
** Anders had a paper accepted for SAB06<br />
* ''Arrangement of the coffee room''<br />
** Thomas, Mauro, Carlotta, Elio, Shervin, and Francisco C. Santos are meeting Friday at 14h00 to discuss different options. Their results will be presented at the next admin meeting<br />
* ''MD: Presentation/discussion of the [[lab responsibilities]] list''<br />
** If you want to discuss the assignment of your responsibilities, talk to Marco D.<br />
** If you want to add more tasks, talk to Marco D.<br />
* ''MD: Participation to the Contact Day of the CIL (Computational Intelligence and Learning) doctoral school''<br />
** See under ''New conferences above''<br />
* ''Max: nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]''<br />
** And nobody will in the future.<br />
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==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=3986
Administration weekly meetings
2006-05-02T08:14:53Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 4th May 2006 */</p>
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<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
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==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* Arrangement of the coffee room<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=3980
Lab responsibilities
2006-04-28T13:56:45Z
<p>Christensen: /* General responsibilities */</p>
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<div>=General responsibilities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA cluster setup and maintenance<br />
| Max <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA Technical Report Series<br />
| Max,Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Mac OS X and Apple support <br />
| Max<br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Linux and Windows support <br />
| Anders<br />
| N/A<br />
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=Robotics group responsibilities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot hardware<br />
| Rehan/all robotics people <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot common interface<br />
| Rehan/Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| S-bot demos<br />
| Shervin <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Supervision of master students working on e-pucks<br />
| Mauro/Alex/Shervin <br />
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!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
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| ACO mailing list<br />
| Max,Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
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| MEETOPT wiki page<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO website maintenance<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| MHN website maintenance <br />
| Max<br />
| N/A<br />
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| <br />
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Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=3966
Lab responsibilities
2006-04-28T12:35:46Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>=General responsibilities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA cluster setup and maintenance<br />
| Max <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot hardware<br />
| Rehan/all robotics people <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot common interface<br />
| Rehan/Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=3965
Lab responsibilities
2006-04-28T12:34:34Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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<div>=General responsibilities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA cluster setup and maintenance<br />
| Max <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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=Robotics group responsibilities=<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot hardware<br />
| Rehan/all robotics people <br />
| N/A<br />
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| S-bot common interface<br />
| Rehan/Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
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| ACO mailing list<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
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Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Lab_responsibilities&diff=3964
Lab responsibilities
2006-04-28T12:27:40Z
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot hardware<br />
| Rehan/all robotics people <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot common interface<br />
| Rehan/Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Arena_time_slots&diff=3963
Arena time slots
2006-04-28T12:27:26Z
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Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Arena_time_slots&diff=3962
Arena time slots
2006-04-28T12:26:21Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
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| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
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| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot hardware<br />
| Rehan/all robotics people <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| S-bot common interface<br />
| Rehan/Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| ACO mailing list<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Arena_time_slots&diff=3961
Arena time slots
2006-04-28T12:25:20Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
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!Task<br />
!Responsible<br />
!Comment<br />
|-<br />
| IRIDIA server setup and maintenance<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Hardware purchases <br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly admin meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Weekly robotics meeting<br />
| Anders <br />
| N/A<br />
|-<br />
| Swarm-bots web-page<br />
| Christos <br />
| N/A<br />
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| ACO mailing list<br />
| Prasanna <br />
| N/A<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3960
Main Page
2006-04-28T12:17:35Z
<p>Christensen: /* <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> */</p>
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
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<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
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** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div><br />
** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them.<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
** [[e-puck resources]]<br />
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** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
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* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3959
Main Page
2006-04-28T12:17:01Z
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]] <br />
* [[#anc1_2 | Information for students]] <br />
* [[#anc1_3 | Useful informations]] (menu, pizza, etc...)<br />
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* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links)<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries.html IRIDIA reports]<br />
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]<br />
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* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...)<br />
* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)<br />
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<h1>Weekly meetings</h1><br />
* Wednesdays at 14h30 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics weekly meeting]]<br />
* Thursdays at 10h30 : [[Administration weekly meetings | Administration weekly meeting]] <br />
* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization weekly meeting]]<br />
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div><br />
** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).<br />
** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.<br />
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div><br />
** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for students coming to IRIDIA in the framework of exchange programs or bilateral agreements.<br />
** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.<br />
** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.<br />
** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees <br />
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div><br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. <br />
** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]<br />
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div><br />
** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities and who takes care of it.<br />
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===<br />
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* '''Sbots'''<br />
** [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]<br />
** [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation. <br />
** [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots<br />
** [[SBOT STATUS]] - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)<br />
** [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time<br />
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* '''E-pucks'''<br />
** [http://asl.epfl.ch/research/systems/epuck/ The official website of e-pucks]<br />
** [[e-puck FAQ]] and things that are good to know<br />
** [[e-puck resources]]<br />
** [[e-puck status]]<br />
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* '''Software'''<br />
** [[Sbot Common Interface]] - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.<br />
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]] - Get started with the ODE based simulator<br />
** [[libsboteye]] the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.<br />
** [[libheading]] A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Tracker tracker] A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/wiki/index.php/Libdistortion libdistortion] a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects.<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [[Robot labs around the World]]<br />
** [[The e-puck page]] - About the e-puck robots. <br />
** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]<br />
** [[Old news]]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===<br />
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* '''Links & news'''<br />
** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS Resource Collection]<br />
** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME the European chapter on metaheuristics]<br />
** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization]<br />
** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]<br />
* '''Metaheuristics'''<br />
** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org The official Ant Colony Optimization website]<br />
** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing]<br />
** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ The official Tabu Search website]<br />
* '''Projects'''<br />
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]<br />
** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network project website]<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===<br />
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).<br />
* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. <br />
* [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors | Conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* [[Coming paper submissions | Coming paper submissions]] - Information on papers that will be soon submitted to conferences.<br />
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=== <div id="anc2_4">Seminars</div> ===<br />
* [[Seminars | Seminars]] - and talks given in IRIDIA, and more generally in Brussels.<br />
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== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==<br />
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* <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div><br />
** [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.<br />
** [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Cluster]] - How to submit jobs to the IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.<br />
* <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div><br />
** [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.<br />
** See all [[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
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https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Previous_administration_meeting&diff=3945
Previous administration meeting
2006-04-26T15:05:35Z
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<div>==Wednesday 9th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* Timing of these administration meetings<br />
* Career development plans and the technology (Alex)<br />
* Upcoming conferences<br />
* New wiki-pages<br />
* Coffee machine<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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N/A<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* Administration meetings have been moved to '''Thursdays 10h30'''<br />
* ''Online career development plans:'' Alex is going to present the technology next meeting<br />
* ''New Wiki pages:''<br />
** [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* ''Coffee machine:'' Marco is going to check prices at Illy and next meeting we are going to vote on which machine to buy<br />
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==Thursday 17th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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* Alex : make the wiki faster : how ? software / hardware solutions ?<br />
* Alex : security is never perfect... do we have a daily backup of the database (ie all wiki contents) ?<br />
* Marco Dorigo (MD): I would like to discuss the "duration" of MEETOPT and MEETROBOTS meetings. <br />
It seems to me that we should set a firm limit to the talk and discussion parts. May be 30 min each? <br />
* MD: Time change for MEETADMIN of Dec 8, 2005<br />
* MD: People should identify themselves when producing items in this list<br />
* Usage policy for HD space on the rack/cluster<br />
* Online career development plan<br />
* Coffee machine: This time we will choose which one to buy <br />
* IRIDIA Christmas dinner<br />
* IRIDIA lab webpage - It is not reall necessary to discuss this point as it is already in the works since long (but before we work on it we need to have the database ready and filled, which will take a few weeks more) and it will be finalised sooner or later!<br />
* New conferences<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* Misc<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''Faster Wiki''': We are in the process of buying new hardware, that should solve the problem.<br />
* '''Wiki Security'': Security and network infrastructure is changing, backups, security, etc. are getting reviewed and reimplemented.<br />
* '''Duration of weekly meetings'': 30 mins for presentation, 30 mins for discussion MAXIMUM. Will be enforced.<br />
* '''Schedule change''': 8th of Dec. the admin meeting will begin at 10h00 instead of 10h30, due to a clash with a lecture.<br />
* '''Rack HD space policy''': If the free disk space becomes less than a certain threshhold, a mail is sent to all containing statistics on who is (ab)using all the space. A mail is sent monthly to everyone listing who is using how much. In case this does not work quotes will be implemented.<br />
** Max: I have implemented two cron jobs on majorana: the first check every hour if the available space is less than 30% and in case send an email to all_AT_iridia, the second is the monthly report on the status of the used space sent by email to all_AT_iridia.<br />
* '''On line career development plan''': Go to the [[StudentsIRIDIA]] page and fill out your career development plan. Currently, the pages are public, but soon this should change (Alex + Anders).<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': We are going to buy an Illy Classic - lab pays 500 EUR the students pay 20 EUR each (Christos is responsible).<br />
* '''Lab webpage''': Currently work is being done on it - DB should be ready around New Years and then content has to be filled in.<br />
* '''New Conferences''':<br />
** See [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[StudentsIRIDIA]]<br />
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==Thursday 24th November==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki Pages<br />
* New Conferences<br />
* Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?<br />
* Anders: Business cards<br />
* Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB<br />
* Alex : database problems. I asked some info to Halva on backup, but at the moment everything is fuzzy.<br />
* Alex : I think it would be nice to setup a wiki page with all the seminars held in Brussels. I am sure we miss many nice opportunities.<br />
* Misc <br />
** Paola's and Christos' dinner and party<br />
** Christos: Coffee machine payment<br />
* Anders: How to use the new coffee machine<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki Pages''':<br />
** [[Working late | Pizza]]<br />
** [[Seminars]]<br />
* '''New Conferences''': None.<br />
* '''Rodi: Memory Extension for the Rack and Marco: New rack's memory?'''<br />
** Try to upgrade one node and if it works, upgrade the rest.<br />
* '''Anders: Business cards'''<br />
** MD is going to check prices.<br />
* '''Marco: changes in IRIDIA logical positioning within ULB'''<br />
** Reorganization within the ULB might result in IRIDIA being merged with two other labs. More will be known in January.<br />
* '''Alex : database problems'''<br />
** Alex is trying to repair the DB.<br />
* '''Wiki page on all the seminars held in Brussels''':<br />
** Please update the page when you hear about seminars, or add links to pages with seminars to the [[Seminars]] Wiki-page.<br />
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==Thursday 1st December -- CANCELLED!==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Alex -> attending a symposium in Paris<br />
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==Thursday 8th December -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco: I am currently in Dublin ...<br />
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==Thursday 15th December ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* '''Christos''': There is 40 EUR left from the coffee machine contribution, let's discuss how to spend this money, one idea is we buy some common lab coffee which we can all use, or even to buy a couple of cakes would not be a bad idea. Lets discuss this cause in there there's ~1.9 e from everybody!<br />
* '''Max''': Issues with NFS on the IRIDIA Cluster. <br />
** The solution adopted by Prasanna for his experiments relieves some "stress" from the harddrive (bottleneck for NFS). <br />
* '''Max''': Memory for the nodes of IRIDIA Cluster.<br />
** I have installed on r17 4*512MB and on r04 8*256MB. Some quick test seems to show some small difference in performance. <br />
* '''Rodi''': Policy for IRIDIA Tech Report<br />
* '''Marco/Mauro''': Backup databases<br />
* '''Anders''': Coffee machine and decalcification?<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages:'''<br />
** Updated LaTeX package for technical reports - can be downloaded from [[IRIDIA Technical reports]].<br />
* '''New Conferences'''<br />
** "IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems" added to [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]]<br />
* '''Cluster and NFS''': Frequent reads/writing on the NFS on the cluster is slow. Use /tmp (local on each node) if you want to use intermediate files. Can give a x3 speed-up. A Wiki page should be made on these type of programming-for-the-cluster-tricks (Max).<br />
* '''Cluster and RAM''': Max and Rodi are currently testing different memory configurations for the cluster.<br />
* '''IRIDIA technical reports and dates''': The date of the technical report is the day on which you get the technical report number from Muriel. This should prevent situations where a technical report from e.g. 2004 references publications from 2005. <br />
* '''Database backup''': The DB backup should be done using mysqldump and not by copying files. Alex is responsible.<br />
* '''Coffee machine''': Tom is responsible for hunting down the coffee machine manual and the decalcify the machine.<br />
* '''New permanent point for the weekly admin meetings''': Rodi suggested to add a new default item to the agendas for the admin meetings, namely "Announcements and Publications". The idea is that if anyone is about to publish something or have published something then they briefly tell everyonbe else about it. Rodi's creative suggestion was accepted without much bloodshed.<br />
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==Thursday 12th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders:''' Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster - it seems like they need to be balanced if the "long" jobs are supposed to ever finish.<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster maintenance - I need to shut down the cluster for 1 day in order to performe some maintenance tasks (we received the new RAM and the new power cord) <br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[IRIDIA Technical reports]]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications: ''' Rodi, Tom, Francisco and Anders had new publications.<br />
* '''Anders: Cluster queues and nice levels on the cluster'''<br />
** The cluster queues will be adjusted.<br />
* '''Max: Cluster maintenance ''' <br />
** Don't submit any jobs to the cluster before the maintenance has been performed. An estimate for the time need for the jobs currenty in the queue is needed by the submitters. Max will let everyone know when the cluster maintenance is going to take place once he knows.<br />
** Status on Jan 13 - Prasanna's job should finish in 2-3 days; Tom has not communicate me still a forcast<br />
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==Thursday 19th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max:''' Cluster and queueing system: In order to avoid that a node is chocked by too many concurrent jobs (this was happening when nodes were using heavily the swap space), we need to tune the number of slots per queue. <br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#For_Apple_computer_owners For Apple computer owners]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Using_the_IRIDIA_Cluster#Programming_tips_for_the_cluster Programming tips for the cluster]<br />
** '''Max:''' [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Workstation_configuration#Wi-Fi_network_configuration IRIDIA Wi-Fi network]<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Cluster and queueing system''' <br />
** 1GB of memory has been added to each node of the cluster. Now each node has 2GB or RAM, 4.5GB of swap space, and 20GB of /tmp space for local data storage. Nodes from r02 to r17 have 4x512MB DDR ECC REG DIMM, while nodes from r18 to r33 have 8*256MB DDR ECC REG DIMM.<br />
** The queues have been reniced like this: short=nice 2, medium=nice 3, long=nice 3, par=nice 2<br />
** The slots for queues have been changed like this: 3 slots in the short queue, 2 slots in the medium queue, 1 slot in the long queue and 1 slot in the parallel queue. We now have maximum 7 concurrent jobs per node (with an average space in RAM of 290MB per process) and 224 maximal concurrent jobs in the whole system.<br />
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==Thursday 26th January ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Anders''': Electronic journal access<br />
* '''Anders''': Business cards<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
** [[Cloning a Debian server]]<br />
** Thomas and Alex are going to reorganize the Wiki because the frontpage is cluttering up<br />
* New conferences<br />
** 2006 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference - deadline 1st Feb!! (see [[Robotics and AI conferences, journals and impact factors]])<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
** Ciro is getting married<br />
* Electronic journal access<br />
** Through Muriel's computer<br />
* Business cards<br />
** Marco is going to put an item on the agenda once the money for business cards has been found.<br />
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==Thursday 2nd February ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
'''Alex''' : a page about libsboteye<br />
'''Alex''' : Rehan announced a HOWTO about assembling/disassembling a sbot<br />
* '''Marco''': Coming paper submissions page<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Marco''': We should add a wikipage with planned paper submission, deadlines for submission, and info on CPU usage requirements. <br />
* '''Marco''': New digital projector. <br />
* '''Marco''': When will the new server be operational? <br />
* '''Marco''': IRIDIA backup to be put in another building? <br />
* '''Alex''' : More space for backup ? <br />
* '''Alex''' : Raid5 backup would make me feel safier.<br />
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'''''People that will be absent:'''''<br />
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Rodi, Alex?<br />
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'''''Results'''''<br />
* '''New Wiki pages'''<br />
** [[Libsboteye]]<br />
** [[SBot Disassembly and Reassembly HOWTO]]<br />
** [[Coming paper submissions]] - if you are going to publish something, but down the conference and you name on this page.<br />
* '''New conferences:''' ''None''<br />
* '''Announcements and Publications:''' ''None''<br />
* '''When will the new server be operational?'''<br />
** Not tomorrow but within 1-2 months. <br />
* '''IRIDIA backup to be put in another building?''': <br />
** MD will check with the staff at the other location. Also it should be checked if there is enough bandwidth to run a backup server from that location.<br />
* '''Other:'''<br />
** This wiki is slow. We are going to buy some more RAM for the current IRIDIA server.<br />
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==Thursday 9th February ==<br />
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'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
* '''Max''': nobody seems to use the page [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/index.php/Coming_paper_submissions Coming paper submissions]. <br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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==Thursday 16th February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 23rd February -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 2nd March -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 9th March 2006-- CANCELLED ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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==Thursday 16th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
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* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
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'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
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Marco D<br />
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<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 23rd March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
Alex<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 30th March 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 6th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 13th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* Shervin proposes to discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
MARCO DORIGO<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br></div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=3944
Administration weekly meetings
2006-04-26T15:05:13Z
<p>Christensen: </p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=3943
Administration weekly meetings
2006-04-26T15:04:35Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 27th April 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 -- CANCELLED ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=3898
Administration weekly meetings
2006-04-20T10:58:32Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 20th April 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen
https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Administration_weekly_meetings&diff=3897
Administration weekly meetings
2006-04-20T10:58:15Z
<p>Christensen: /* Thursday 20th April 2006 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Previous administration meetings==<br />
<br />
[[Previous administration meeting]]<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 20th April 2006==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* MARCO: Discuss creation of new web page with list of web pages cited in our papers and tech reps. <br />
* Christos: Discuss who can use the cluster (for example people that left, like Paola or Tom or Vicentini, and the space they use)<br />
* Shervin: Discuss a slight optimization of the cluster-policy.<br />
* Anders: The IRIDIA server - services, backups and transfer of data to the new installation<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
'''''Results'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
* New web page <br />
** Marco D and Christos ND will take care of creating a new web or wiki page.<br />
* Who can use the cluster <br />
** Only people directly associated with IRIDIA (students, post docs, etc.) can use the cluster. Researchers who left should arrange with their contact/collaborator/supervisor here, to use his/her login in case they need to use the cluster.<br />
* The cluster-policy<br />
** Max explained the cluster policy and a mem limit might be introduced.<br />
* The IRIDIA server<br />
** Anders is going to send a mail with the list of packages on the new IRIDIA server and the pacakges configured. People, who are responsible for things running on the IRIDIA server, should make sure that data related to whatever they are in charge of, is correctly backed up. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br><br><br />
<br />
==Thursday 27th April 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
==Thursday 4th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 11th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''<br />
<br />
<br />
==Thursday 18th May 2006 ==<br />
<br />
'''''Agenda'''''<br />
* New Wiki pages<br />
* New conferences<br />
* Announcements and Publications<br />
<br />
'''''People who will be absent'''''</div>
Christensen