Robotics weekly meetings

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Purpose

  1. Community. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab
  2. Research. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.
  3. Admin. Lab administration.


Format

  1. 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
  2. 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

Wednesdays at 16.00 (temporary time schedule)

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

  1. Presentation
    • None
  2. 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

  1. 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.

  1. 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

  1. Presentation
    • Heterogeneous Group Size Regulation (please edit)
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • Morphogenesis (please edit)
  2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
    • Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

Reading material

People who will be absent



Wednesday 18th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor - Start at 16.30

Agenda

  1. Presentation
    • PhatBot Assembly and Navigation
    • The behavioral toolkit
    • Future work and feedback
  2. 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

Agenda

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. 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

  1. Presentation
    • TBA
  2. Internal Meeting / Discussion

Reading material

People who will be absent