Robotics weekly meetings
Purpose
- Community. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab
- Research. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.
- Admin. Lab administration.
Format
- Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)
- Work you have been doing
- Reading you have been doing in the context of your work
- Other reading on something you are passionate about
- Swarmanoid internal meeting (0 - 50 mins)
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:
- Send round material to be read beforehand.
- Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.
- Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.
Timing & Attendance
The weekly meetings take place on
Unless:
- A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or
- Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.
If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.
Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting (no later than the Friday before).
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.
Previous Meetings
See Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (2007-2008).
See Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (older).
Wednesday 4th February 2009 - Internal Meeting - Room C2-223, 2nd floor
Agenda
- Presentation
- None
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- Swarmanoid Project: Camera Segmentation Software
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Giovanni - Room C2-223, 2nd floor
Agenda
- Presentation
- Interference Reduction through Task Partitioning
The talk is about the use of task partitioning as a way to reduce interference in a spatially constrained harvesting task. Interference is one of the key problems in large cooperating groups. We present a simple method to allocate individuals of a robotic swarm to a partitioned task, and study how this task partition can increase system performance by reducing sources of interference. The method is experimentally studied, both in an environment with a constrained area and an environment without the constraint.
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 18th February 2009 - Carlo - Meeting room in Architecture Dept.
Agenda
- Presentation
- Heterogeneous Group Size Regulation (please edit)
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 25th February 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223, 2nd floor
Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor
Wednesday 11th March 2009 - Rehan - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor - Start at 16.30
Agenda
- Presentation
- Morphogenesis (please edit)
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
Reading material
People who will be absent
Thursday 19th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Paduart Room, 2nd floor - Start at 16.00
Agenda
- Presentation
- PhatBot Assembly and Navigation
- The behavioral toolkit
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
Reading material
People who will be absent
Tentative Schedule for the following
Wednesday 25th March 2009 - Marco - Paduart, 4th floor - Start at 16.30
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 1st April 2009 - Antal - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 8th April 2009 - Person to be determined - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 15th April 2009 - Ali - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 22nd April 2009 - Alex - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 29th April 2009 - Manuele - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00
Agenda
- Presentation
- TBA
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
