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Robotics weekly meetings

2006-07-03T15:02:33Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio */

==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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Roderich

 

==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* 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.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Let's discuss Francesco request about new s-bots specifications and prepare a document for him (Marco)

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* 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
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Robotics weekly meetings

2006-07-03T15:02:19Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio */

==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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Roderich

 

==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* 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.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Let's discuss Francesco request about new s-bots specifications and prepare a document for him (Marco)

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Iwill 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
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Robotics weekly meetings

2006-07-03T15:01:52Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio */

==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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 14th June 2006 - Alexandre ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* The presentation is about foraging. I present a mechanism that aims at selecting the closest resource for a group of robots.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Roderich

 

==Wednesday 21st June 2006 - Rehan ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* 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.
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Sbot Common Repository - Rehan

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 28th June 2006 - Anders ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Fault detection, isolation and tolerance for autonomous robots.
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Let's discuss Francesco request about new s-bots specifications and prepare a document for him (Marco)

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 5th July 2006 - Elio ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
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

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 12th July 2006 - Christos ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 19th July 2006 - Rodi ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

 

==Wednesday 26th July 2006 - Shervin ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Robotics weekly meetings

2006-04-17T19:07:40Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 20th April 2006 - Elio */

Robotics weekly meetings

2006-01-31T11:53:26Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 8th February - Christos */

==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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==

This meeting is going to be a bit technical.

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Simulation
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation
#* Discussion on simulation
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

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.

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Rehan

'''''Results'''''

[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]

 

==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*
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.

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Elio

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco D

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco D

'''''Results'''''

Robotics weekly meetings

2006-01-31T11:52:41Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio */

==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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 25th January - Anders ==

This meeting is going to be a bit technical.

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* Simulation
#* TwoDee: Philosophy, limitations and implementation
#* Discussion on simulation
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''

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.

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Rehan

'''''Results'''''

[[Media:Alc_robots_and_simulation.pdf |Download presentation (.pdf)]]

 

==Wednesday 1st Febuary - Elio ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*
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.

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 8th February - Christos ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 15th February - Marco ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 22nd February - Roderich ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco D

'''''Results'''''

 

==Wednesday 1st March - Shervin ==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
*

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
*

'''''Reading material'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco D

'''''Results'''''

Robotics weekly meetings

2005-11-11T18:18:20Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 16th November - Elio */

==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==

# Iridia Administration (0 - 15 mins)
# 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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#* Coffee Machine
#* New Wiki Pages
#* Next week...
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* What is robotic pattern formation?
#* Potential applications using the Swarm Bot robotic platform
#* Discussion / feedback on my research direction
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Sbot / Simulator programmatic interfaces
#* Buying a computer+flatscreen for the robot room (or taking one that is not used)
#* Any spare monitor for Rodi?

'''''Location'''''
Ping pong room

'''''Reading Material'''''

* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Elio, Thomas
 

'''''Results'''''

[[Media:Pattern_presentation.pdf|Download Presentation (PDF)]]

* ''Coffee machine'': Various options available. Ciro is taking care of calling the people in charge of the ULB expresso machine deal.
* ''New wiki pages:''
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]]
** [[The e-puck page]]
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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.

==Wednesday 9th November - Federico==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* ER approach for real world apllication: reference framework for vehicle controller
#* Some requirements in my navigation task: patrolling, collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance
#* Multirobot context: testing the Quinn experiment. Simulation and results with real s-bots
#* Discussion/feedback on tools/approaches selected and on future work
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Arena camera
#* Common interface
#* OMiss and 2D kinematics

'''''Reading material'''''
# [[Media:Pellecchia_making_driver_modeling.pdf|Reference for my simulator benchmarking: the Quinn experiment @ Sussex (pdf)]]
# [[Media:Quinn_evolving_teamwork.pdf|Reference for automotive navigation usign evolutionary approach (pdf)]]

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A
 

==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*Title: General, Universal, even worst Global: I'm against, better ANTI-.

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.

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
* None for the moment, I am happy to suggest you some readings if you feel interested in what I will talk about.

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco, Federico
 

'''''Things we should talk about'''''
* we should use templeet in the wiki to make it run faster

==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
*

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)
 

==Wednesday 30th November - Shervin==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
*

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Ciro (holiday --> no talk!!!)

Robotics weekly meetings

2005-11-11T18:16:52Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 16th November - Elio */

==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==

# Iridia Administration (0 - 15 mins)
# 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
# Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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 [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings]].

==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#* Coffee Machine
#* New Wiki Pages
#* Next week...
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* What is robotic pattern formation?
#* Potential applications using the Swarm Bot robotic platform
#* Discussion / feedback on my research direction
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Sbot / Simulator programmatic interfaces
#* Buying a computer+flatscreen for the robot room (or taking one that is not used)
#* Any spare monitor for Rodi?

'''''Location'''''
Ping pong room

'''''Reading Material'''''

* There is no reading material for this weeks presentation

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Elio, Thomas
 

'''''Results'''''

[[Media:Pattern_presentation.pdf|Download Presentation (PDF)]]

* ''Coffee machine'': Various options available. Ciro is taking care of calling the people in charge of the ULB expresso machine deal.
* ''New wiki pages:''
** [[OMiss - The ODE based simulator]]
** [[The e-puck page]]
* ''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.
* ''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.
* ''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.

==Wednesday 9th November - Federico==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#* ER approach for real world apllication: reference framework for vehicle controller
#* Some requirements in my navigation task: patrolling, collision avoidance, obstacle avoidance
#* Multirobot context: testing the Quinn experiment. Simulation and results with real s-bots
#* Discussion/feedback on tools/approaches selected and on future work
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#* Arena camera
#* Common interface
#* OMiss and 2D kinematics

'''''Reading material'''''
# [[Media:Pellecchia_making_driver_modeling.pdf|Reference for my simulator benchmarking: the Quinn experiment @ Sussex (pdf)]]
# [[Media:Quinn_evolving_teamwork.pdf|Reference for automotive navigation usign evolutionary approach (pdf)]]

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A
 

==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*Title: General, Universal, even worst Global: I'm against, better ANTI-.

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.

# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
*

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Marco, Federico
 

'''''Things we should talk about'''''
* we should use templeet in the wiki to make it run faster

==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
*

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)
 

==Wednesday 30th November - Shervin==

'''''Agenda'''''

# '''IRIDIA Admin'''
#*
# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
#*
# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
#*

'''''Reading material'''''
*

'''''People who will be absent'''''

Ciro (holiday --> no talk!!!)

Robotics weekly meetings

2005-10-13T14:28:44Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 26th October - Anders */

==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 (15 - 30 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
# Discussion (15 - 30 mins)
# Administration (0 - 30 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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.

==Wednesday 19th October - Alexandre==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

* Task allocation.
* Modelling.

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

* Standard programatic interface for simulators / real sbots.
* Format of these meetings

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 26th October - Anders==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Elio
N/A

==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Elio

N/A

==Wednesday 9th November - Frederico==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 23rd November - Shervin==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

Robotics weekly meetings

2005-10-13T14:28:13Z

Etuci: /* Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan */

==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 (15 - 30 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
# Discussion (15 - 30 mins)
# Administration (0 - 30 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 '''ALWAYS''' take place on

<center> '''Wednesdays at 14.30''' </center>

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.

==Wednesday 19th October - Alexandre==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

* Task allocation.
* Modelling.

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

* Standard programatic interface for simulators / real sbots.
* Format of these meetings

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 26th October - Anders==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''
Elio

N/A

==Wednesday 9th November - Frederico==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 16th November - Elio==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 23rd November - Christos==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

==Wednesday 23rd November - Shervin==

'''''Presentation / Discussion Topics'''''

'''''Adminstration Issues'''''

'''''People who will be absent'''''

N/A

SBOT STATUS

2005-10-13T10:20:43Z

Etuci: /* sbot 19 */

The goal of this page is maintaining an updated list of the status of the s-bots in IRIDIA
For each s-bot, a short list of hardware/software problems should be given.
Every time an error/problem occurs while experimenting with the s-bots, it *must* be recorded here.

==sbot6==

* first generation
* traction sensor not working at all
* gripper open close mechanism gets stuck occasionally
* Accelerometer has tendency to jump to +/- 180 degrees. Otherwise working. Fixable by limiting values.
* Camera bit out of focus
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 8==
* first generation
* traction sensor not working at all
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 9==
* first generation
* traction sensor not working at all
* LIGHT SENSOR NOT WORKING AT ALL
* Accelerometer has tendency to jump to +/- 180 degrees. Otherwise working. Fixable by limiting values.
* Camera quite a red image
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 13==
* gripper broken (plastic on the gripper socket is broken, cannot be used)
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 19==
* IR n 15 is not working at all
* Last tested 11th October 2005

==sbot 22==
* traction sensor is a bit rigid
* ground_sensor_0 doesn't work
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 23==
* gripper doesn't close firmly
* flexible arm
* one treel broken ??
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 24==
* Camera out of focus
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 26==
* ring broken during transport
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 30==
* looks like one track is having some problems ??
* cracked perspex on camera tower
* camera image quite red
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 32==
* Camera very out of focus
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 35==
* Power shuts off intermentently / sometimes won't power up at all
* proximity_sensor_7 doesn't work
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

==sbot 36==
* Accelerometer starting values are near +/- 180. Does register change - maybe usable by addition of constant before reading.
* Right treel broken
* Last tested 3rd October 2005

Main Page

2004-10-20T10:28:07Z

Etuci:

''So the Wiki for IRIDIA is up and running!''

== Content ==

Currently there are three articles:

# [[Moving to Brussels]] - Information on transport, short- and long-term accommodation, inscription etc.
# [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.
# [[Introduction to evolutionary robotics]] - Reading material for beginners

== Adding information ==

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. Pictures and documents (pdf and ps files allowed for the moment) have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages.

For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.