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==== ARGoS Maintenance ====
 
==== ARGoS Maintenance ====
 
* Adding Dhananjay's robot for his project with Navneet (1 day)
 
* Adding Dhananjay's robot for his project with Navneet (1 day)
* Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 days)
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* Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 day)
 
* Further documentation (2 days)
 
* Further documentation (2 days)
 
* Fixing cluster-related issues (4 days)
 
* Fixing cluster-related issues (4 days)

Revision as of 23:06, 10 June 2012


General information

Personal

Name: Carlo Pinciroli
Birthdate: 24/05/1980
Belgian mobile phone: +32 487 558922
Italian mobile phone: +39 347 6210713
Belgian home address: rue Isidore Verheyden 5, 1050 Ixelles (BE)
Italian home address: via Merini 7, 21100 Varese (IT)

ULB-related

PhD started: October 1st, 2006
Matricule ULB: 000252784
Office phone: +32 0 2650 2730

Projects

ASCENS project: since October 1st, 2010

SWARMANOID project: October 1st, 2006 - September 30th, 2010

Work Schedule

Period 30/4 - 8/6

ASCENS

  • Berlin meeting
    • Preparation (discussions, slides) (2 days)
    • Actual meeting (3 days)
  • Development of simulated version of robotics scenario
    • Status: 20% done, worked 2 days

ARGoS journal paper

  • Finished two more versions of the paper, last one under review by Marco and Mauro (2 weeks)

SICE paper

  • Total time worked: 10 days
    • Current status: rewritten 70% of the paper, starting from copy-pasted version
    • By Monday 18th: readable draft finished

ARGoS Maintenance

  • Adding Dhananjay's robot for his project with Navneet (1 day)
  • Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 day)
  • Further documentation (2 days)
  • Fixing cluster-related issues (4 days)

Swarm Intelligence Course

  • Correction and grading of final projects (2 days)

Students

  • MA1 project
    • Exam (1 day)
  • Master
    • Davide Vichi (1 week)

Period 26/3 - 27/4

ARGoS journal paper

  • Total time worked: 1 week
    • Rewritten Section 4.1 (2 days)
    • Redone validation plots (3 days)
    • Other fixes (2 days)
  • Status: everything written, section 4.2 to fix, images to be distributed better in the paper
  • Ready: May 2nd, 2012
  • Main reason for delays: high priority tasks on other activities listed below

SICE paper

  • Total time worked: 4 days
  • Status: first draft ready and discussed with Rehan
    • Heavily based on copy-paste from previous papers
  • Next draft ready: Friday May 11th
    • Complete rewriting, no (or marginal) copy-paste-based content

ARGoS Maintenance

  • Helping Navneet
    • Introduction to ARGoS (1 day)
    • Fixing issues with ARGoS for Swarm Intelligence course (1 day)
  • Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 day)
  • Interactions with external ARGoS users (3 days)
  • Documentation (1 day)

Swarm Intelligence Course

  • Class
    • Class itself (8 hours)
    • Preparing material such as presentations and ARGoS extra packages (2 days)
  • Final project proposal
    • Discussions (2 days)
    • Drafting the final project proposal (2 days)

Support for Students

  • MA1 project
    • Thibaut Roskam (2 days)
    • Harold Waterkeyn (1 day)
  • Master
    • Davide Vichi (4 days)

Week 19/3/2012 - 23/3/2012

ARGoS maintenance

  • Fixing cluster issues with ARGoS
    • Cluster automatically deletes files in /tmp
    • New cluster package prevent ARGoS from working

ARGoS journal paper

  • Prepare new draft
    • Including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
    • Paper draft finished by: Tuesday, April 3rd

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

  • Meeting with Rehan
    • TOC and flow agreed
    • Preliminary, raw draft ready by Tuesday 27th March

Week 12/3/2012 - 16/3/2012

  • Preparation of the ASCENS general meeting
  • Attending the ASCENS general meeting

Week 5/3/2012 - 9/3/2012

Meeting with Marco on Monday, March 5

  • ARGoS paper: finish draft as written below
  • SICE paper
    • Focus on group formation by eye-bots and foot-bots
    • Port code and results to ARGoS2 (1 week)
    • Write paper starting from TOC of Rehan, Mauro and Marco (3 weeks?)
  • Requisites for PhD Thesis
    • ARGoS and SICE journal papers submitted
    • Well written and complete ARGoS user manual (1 month)

ARGoS journal paper

  • Prepare new draft
    • Finish images (1 day) [DONE]
    • Meet on Monday with Mauro and Gio to include Gio's experiment for validation [DONE]
      • Agreed on including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
      • Time expected to fix the paper: 10 days

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

  • Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract [DONE]

ASCENS project

Week 27/2/2012 - 2/3/2012

ARGoS journal paper

  • Prepare new draft by 2/3/2012
    • Write example of robot composition in Section 3 to show flexibility [DONE]
      • Comparison between components of foot-bot and eye-bot: what is shared, what is not [DONE]
      • Make images [50% DONE]
    • Fix Section 4.2.2 with Eliseo's corrections [DONE]

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

  • Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract

ASCENS project [DONE]