https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Giovannireina&feedformat=atomIridiaWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T04:47:55ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.4https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Tracking_System&diff=7055Tracking System2015-02-24T17:01:28Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Run Halcon on local machine */</p>
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<div>IRIDIA is currently developing a Tracking System for the robots experiments taking place in the Robotics Arena. The purpose of the Tracking System is to detect the position of all the robots in the Arena, together with recording and storing the frames of the whole experiments.<br />
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==Hardware==<br />
The tracking system is composed by a set of 16 cameras Prosilica GC1600 C, disposed as shown in Figure 1[[File:Camera_placement.png|thumb|right|Figure 1. Placement of the cameras in the Robotics Arena.]]. The cameras are set in order to have a collective field of view that covers the entire area of the Arena. The cameras are connected to a dedicated computer, the Arena Tracking System Server, through Ethernet connection. The Arena Tracking System Server hosts the API that the users of the Tracking System can exploit to configure, run and record their experiments. (Ref: Alessandro Stranieri, Arena Tracking System)<br />
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==Software==<br />
The Arena Tracking System's API are built on top of the Halcon library. Halcon is a library by MVTec Software GmbH, used for scientific and industrial computer vision applications. It provides an extensive set of optimized operators and it comes along with a full featured IDE that allows for fast prototyping of computer vision programs, camera calibration and configuration utilities. The library also provides drivers to easily interface with a broad range of cameras. (Ref: Alessandro Stranieri, Arena Tracking System)<br />
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==Licence==<br />
IRIDIA owns a Floating Development Licence. That means that the library can be installed on any computer in the local network, but can be used by at most one of them at any time.<br />
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==Deployment==<br />
The Tracking System is composed by the Halcon libraries, the Tracking System binaries, and the user's home directory configuration. Each of those resources are deployed in the Arena Tracking System Server at several levels.<br />
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===Halcon libraries===<br />
Halcon libraries and documentations are stored at ''/opt/halcon''. These libraries are used for the core functions of the Tracking System.<br />
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===Tracking System binary files and general configuration===<br />
These files are the compiled output of the tracking System sources. They are located in ''/tracking/lib'' and used as static libraries. The source files are in ''/home/ats/source''. Configuration files that are administrators' duty, such as calibration files and descriptions of marker models are in the directory ''/tracking/conf''.<br />
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===User home directory===<br />
The directory ''/home/ats/usr_config'' is the directory that represents the ''arena_tracking_system'' directory in each user's home. This directory contains two links to executable files located in ''/tracking/lib''. One link runs the Tracking System with interactive GUI (arena_viewer), the other runs the Tracking System in a non-interactive textual mode. The user's environment is integrated with the directory ''data'' where the results of the experiments are stored and the directory ''conf'' that contains all the user concerning resources and experiments.<br />
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==Administrator's guidelines==<br />
The Halcon libraries and the development environment HDevelop can be used either remotely from the Arena Tracking System Server or locally by downloading the libraries on your machine.<br />
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===Access Halcon from the Arena Tracking System Server===<br />
The Halcon library is hosted in the Arena Tracking System Server. In order to use the library is necessary to access the node through Secure Shell. There are two available interfaces for this server: <br />
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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! IP<br />
! Alias<br />
! Bandwidth<br />
! Command<br />
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164.15.10.153<br />
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liebig.ulb.ac.be<br />
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1 Gbit<br />
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ssh -X <user>@liebig.ulb.ac.be<br />
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169.254.0.200<br />
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10 Gbit<br />
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ssh -X <user>@169.254.0.200<br />
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To access the 10 Gbit interface you must be connected to the Camera Network. To connect to the Camera Network you must plug your cable in the switch in which all the cameras are connected.<br />
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The 1 Gbit interface can be accessed directly from the internet.<br />
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===Run Halcon on local machine===<br />
'''WARNING:''' this guide is meant for Halcon developers running Linux 64 bit. Installation process for other OS can be found at http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/release/index-10.html but it has not been tested.<br />
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* Dowload ''halcon.tar.gz'' from the server liebig.ulb.ac.be in /home/ats/halcon.tar.gz<br />
* Extract the content in ''/opt'' on your local machine. From the folder where you downloaded ''halcon.tar.gz'':<br />
sudo cp halcon.tar.gz /opt<br />
cd /opt<br />
tar xf halcon.tar.gz<br />
rm halcon.tar.gz<br />
* Add execution permission:<br />
sudo chmod -R a+x /opt/halcon<br />
* Set environment variables and add paths to path variables (to be done every reboot).<br />
If you are using Bourne shell:<br />
source /opt/halcon/.profile_halcon<br />
If you are using C shell:<br />
source /opt/halcon/.cshrc_halcon<br />
* Connect your cable to the switch used by all the cameras in order to access the Camera Network (currently only the Ethernet port C4 in the Arena is connected to that switch). Then, assign to your local machine a static IP of type 169.254.x.x (but other than 169.254.100.1) with netmask 255.255.0.0.<br />
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'''WARNING:''' the Camera Network does not provide internet connection. You need to be connected also to the internet while launching Halcon (e.g. through Hashmal Wifi)<br />
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* Open a new terminal and run HDevelop:<br />
hdevelop<br />
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===How to set up the environment===<br />
In order to use the Tracking System for an experiment there are few preliminary steps you should be aware of. These steps allow you to set up a suitable configuration of the cameras and build a marker model able to track the robots, according to the environment you need for the experiment.<br />
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====Set the light intensity of the Robotics Arena====<br />
Before tuning any camera, you should first set the same light intensity you are going to use during the experiment.<br />
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====Tune the cameras' settings====<br />
'''WARNING:''' calibration file ''camera_pose.dat'' is missing for cameras 5, 6 and 12.<br />
* Run HDevelop (see How to use Halcon) and access ''Image Acquisition Interface'':<br />
Assistants -> Open New Image Acquisition<br />
Be sure that the set of cameras you want to tune is switched on.<br />
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* Select ''Image Acquisition Interface'' and then ''Detect''. In the drop-down list should automatically appear ''GigEVision''.<br />
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* Switch to ''Connection'' tab. Select from the drop-down list ''Device'' the camera you want to tune. The IDs of the cameras are decoded in Figure 1. Then click ''Connect''.<br />
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* HDevelop is now connected to the camera and by clicking on ''Live'' you can see real time camera streaming.<br />
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* Place a robot with marker under the camera. Zoom in on the marker and tune the camera settings until the marker is on focus and the image is clear. To change the focus you should twist the upper ring on the camera's mount. To change the brightness you can use the parameters in the ''Parameters'' tab, especially those related to exposure and gain. The same parameters mus be set in the file ''resources.xml'' (see How to run an experiment).<br />
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You should try to set up the camera in a way that the markers are clear and on focus either in the centre and in the corners of the visual field of the camera.<br />
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===Acquire and create a marker model===<br />
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The creation and acquisition of a marker model is a critical step when using the Tracking System. The markers must be placed on top of robots. They are composed by external and internal patterns. The external pattern is the same for all the robots and it is used for detection. The internal pattern must be different for each robot and it is used for the decoding (see Figure 2 and Figure 3). [[File:em0.8_code.png|thumb|left|Figure 2. Marker for EPucks.]] [[File:m1.2_code.png|thumb|right|Figure 3. Marker for FootBots.]] For a set of printable markers for EPucks and FootBots check [[File:printable_markers.tar.gz]].<br />
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The marker for Epucks, for example, has a "house shaped" external pattern in which the roof indicates the orientation of the robot. The internal pattern is a rectangle containing six little black and white squares. Any particular configuration of black and white squares is the encoding of a single Epuck. Six squares allow experiments with up to 64 robots. However, it is safer to avoid configurations which differ from each other for only one square.<br />
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In the Tracking System decoding, the Epuck's id is calculated by giving each square a position and a value in a six bits string. In this case, the squares are allocated in the bit string, starting from the less significant bit, from the top left corner to the down right corner. Their value is 1 for white and 0 for black.<br />
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''Example: in Figure 2 the ID of the robot, following squares from top left to down right, is equal to: 0(black)*2^0 + 1(white)*2^1 + 0*2^2 + 0*2^3 + 0*2^4 + 1*2^5 = 34.''<br />
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The Tracking System provides a script to acquire and create a marker model. Here is explained how to acquire and create marker models for Epucks.<br />
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* In HDevelop, open the file arena_tracking/hdevel/marker_model_creation/acquire_marker_frame.hdev.<br />
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This script allows the user to take a picture that will be used to create the marker model.<br />
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'''WARNING:''' the choice of the marker model is critical for the efficiency and also the correctness of the Tracking System. Your goal is to to create a model that is reliable and efficient. To do so a good habit is to orientate the marker as one of the axes of the camera, in order to have a square on the screen, instead of a rhombus, when it is time to create the model.<br />
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* Change the general path variables in the first part of the file, and set CameraID of the camera you chose for this step. Place one or more robots in the scope of the chosen camera and run the script. You now have an image from which infer the marker model.<br />
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* Open the file arena_tracking/hdevel/marker_model_creation/inspect_create_marker_model_from_image.hdev and modify the general path variables as done before.<br />
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* Run the script, it opens the image just stored by the previous script. Then it stops and prompts you to zoom on the marker you want to extract for the model.<br />
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* Run the script again. Now it stops and waits for you draw first the external rectangle of the marker, and then the internal rectangle of the marker. You are also requested to orientate the arrow on the rectangles along with the marker orientation. Right click to confirm your selection.<br />
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'''WARNING:''' this is also a critical part of the model creation. You should try to be particularly accurate in sizing the two rectangles. The external one must be drawn in the white space within the paper and outside the house shape, taking care not to cut the roof. The same for the internal one, in which you should draw the rectangle in the white padding around the six squares.<br />
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* Run the script again. The model has been created and the program shows how many markers it detected in the image. This is a first test of the reliability of your marker model.<br />
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To definitely validate the model you can run a few experiments as a test. You can also create several models and pick the best one after the tests.<br />
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To actually use your model in the experiment you must add the entry in the file ''resources.xml'' and set the right reference in the file ''experiment.xml'' (see How to run an experiment).<br />
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===Create and set up a new Arena Tracking System User===<br />
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To create a new user for the tracking system the administrator should run the script ''create_and_setup_new_user.sh'' available in ''/home/ats''.<br />
./create_and_setup_new_user.sh <new_user_name><br />
This script creates a new user and builds its environment in order to allow the user to run the Tracking System right away. To set up the environment to an already existing user the script ''setup_user_home.sh'' must be run.<br />
./setup_user_home.sh <existing_user_name><br />
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==User's guidelines==<br />
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Every user who is interested in using the Arena Tracking System should ask an administrator to create and/or set up his environment in the Arena Tracking System Server. When the set up is completed the user can access the ''arena_tracking_system'' directory in his home directory. The ''arena_tracking_system'' directory contains two links to executable files and (''arena_viewer'' and ''track_no_GUI'') and two directories (''conf'' and ''data''). The link ''arena_viewer'' runs the Tracking System with an interactive GUI, the link ''track_no_GUI'' runs the the Tracking System in a non-interactive textual mode. The ''conf'' directory contains editable xml files that must be properly configured by the user before launching any experiment. There are two kinds of xml files: resources and experiment. In order to run an experiment, the user must specify one of each kind of file:<br />
./<link_command> conf/<resource_file> conf/<experiment_file><br />
For simplicity, the resource file is only one (''resources.xml'') and it is mostly configured by the administrator. All the other files are experiment files, and must be edited for the most part by the user.<br />
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===Resource file===<br />
In the file ''resources.xml'' are stored all the possible resources available for the experiment, along with their parameters and settings.<br />
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The ''grabbers'' section contains all the possible frame grabbers, i.e. all the cameras and a folder in which images can be stored. Each grabber is described in its ''grabber'' section. Here is where the user should set the proper parameters for the cameras to achieve optimal acquisition of the frames. In this section the user can also define his own file grabbers, if he is interested in tracking from a set of frames stored in a particular directory.<br />
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The ''trackers'' section is where all the available marker models are referenced. For the moment only administrators are allowed to create a new marker model. <br />
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Finally, in the ''cameras'' section are specified the proper parameter files for each camera. This part should not be edited by the user.<br />
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Any of these features can be recalled in the ''experiment.xml'' file by their ''id'' parameter.<br />
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===Experiment files===<br />
This file must be tailored on the experiment the user is going to run. In the given environment there are some documented examples suitable for each possible usage of the Tracking System. Each of those files is structured as follows:<br />
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In the ''arena_state_tracker'' section the user can add as many cameras he needs, by editing a new ''camera_state_tracker'' entry and providing camera state tracker id, grabber id, tracker id and camera view id. It is best practice to keep the id of each item related to the camera as CST (camera state tracker) or HC (grabber) or C (camera view) and the number of the camera.<br />
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By changing tracker id'' you can try different marker models. The default marker model for footbots is ''FBD01'', and the default marker model for epucks is ''EPD02''.<br />
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In the ''experiment_record'' section there are two flags to allow image storing and directory overwriting, and the path to the directory you want to store the images.<br />
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'''WARNING:''' remember to create the directory you are going to save the results in before running the experiment.<br />
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===Command links===<br />
The two links ''arena_viewer'' and ''track_no_GUI'' are linked to two executable files. The link ''arena_viewer'' runs the Tracking System with an interactive GUI, the link ''track_no_GUI'' runs the Tracking System in a non-interactive textual mode. Here are some usage examples:<br />
./arena_viewer conf/resources.xml conf/record_only.xml<br />
With the command above the user chose to run the interactive GUI for the record_only experiment.<br />
./track_no_GUI conf/resources.xml conf/track_from_file.xml<br />
With the command above the user chose to run the non-interactive textual mode for the track_from_file experiment.<br />
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Either commands generate 3 files .txt in the ''data/<root_directory>'' directory.<br />
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*'''results.txt''' - This file contains in each line the timestep number followed by the arena state, e.g. the id, position and orientation of each robot detected in the corresponding timestep. Each robot entry is structured as follows: <robot_id> <x position in pixels within the image> <y position in pixels within the image> <orientation in degrees with respect to the camera point of view> <x position in meters within the arena> <y position in meters within the arena> <orientation in degrees with respect to the arena point of view>. Example:<br />
17 0915 0432 102.9 3.05140 3.44879 12.85714<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
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! rowspan="2"|ID<br />
! colspan="3"|Image<br />
! colspan="3"|Real World<br />
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! x (pixels)<br />
! y (pixels)<br />
! &theta; (deg)<br />
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! x (meters)<br />
! y (meters)<br />
! &theta; (deg)<br />
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17<br />
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915<br />
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102.9<br />
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3.05140<br />
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3.44879<br />
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12.85714<br />
|}<br />
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*'''statistics.txt''' - This file contains in each line the timestep number, for each camera, the time elapsed for the current tracking, and finally the total time for the timestep. This file is useful to calculate the maximum FPS rate for real time purpose.<br />
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*'''runs_timing.txt''' - This file acquires some meaning only if it is created using the interactive GUI. This file store in each row the first and last timestep of a tracking session. It is useful if an user wants to track or record several runs of an experiment and cut the videos afterwards.<br />
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===Arena Viewer GUI===<br />
The Arena Viewer is an interactive GUI that helps the user setting up the experiment. With the Arena Viewer the user can see how the experiment is evolving in real time, and if a tracker has been defined in the experiment file the detected markers are highlighted. The Arena Viewer is helpful in the tuning phase before the real experiment, when the user must carefully balance the environmental light with camera acquisition parameters such as exposure time and gain. It is also helpful during the run of the experiment, because it allows the user to stop the recording/tracking of the experiment, make some changes in the arena and start again.<br />
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'''WARNING:''' All the options selected in the experiment file are reported unchanged in the Arena Viewer.<br />
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'''!!!WARNING!!!''' As a matter of performance, the refreshing operation of the frames in the Arena Viewer is very time consuming, degrading the performance of the Tracking System and the overall FPS. Therefore, the refresh toggle button (two green circular arrows) allows the user to enable or disable the refresh of the image. '''It is best practice to disable the refresh of the images after the tune of the experiment is done.'''<br />
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[[File:arena_viewer_snapshot.png|thumb|right|Figure 4. Arena Viewer snapshot.]]<br />
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[[File:arena_viewer_controllers.png|thumb|left|Figure 5. Arena Viewer controllers.]]<br />
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==Adapter for the cameras==<br />
In case you need an adaptor for the cameras to attach them to a standard camera mount (e.g., Manfrotto), you can create one using the laser cutter. <br />
Here are the files: [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbrambilla/files/camera_adapter.ecp ecp version] [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mbrambilla/files/camera_adapter.dxf dxf version]</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6273PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-03-14T15:22:52Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
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<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
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<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
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<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
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<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
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<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
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<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
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</table><br />
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<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
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Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
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<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
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<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
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<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
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<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
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<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
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<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
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<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
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<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
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<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
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<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
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<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
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<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
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<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
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<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
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<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
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<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
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<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
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<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
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<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
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<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
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<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
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<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
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<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
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<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
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<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
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<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
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<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
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<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
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1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
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<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
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<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
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<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
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During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assignment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Recommendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Research Activity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Research Activity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition literature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>7%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Travel Scholarship.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Selection of the self-propelled particles simulator. Modelling a collective decision making problem with SPP: nest-selection using as quality measure the distance estimation. Deeping my knowledge of SPP models and collective motion (Vicsek).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Travel scholarship.</strong><br />
Preparation and submission of the travel scholarship application.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Get information on arena tracking system from Alessandro Stranieri.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FNRS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers. Submit it to Robotics and Autonomous Systems. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS.</strong> <br />
Write the FNRS prject proposal. Submit it.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. Review of 2 Gecco 2013 papers for Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong><br />
<br /><br />
From micro to macro model. Study parametrization of the system. Study of collective decision making with multiple (possibly conflicting) metrics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Conclude my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: a Swarm Robotics Perspective. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6272PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-03-14T15:15:09Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assignment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Recommendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Research Activity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Research Activity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition literature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>7%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Selection of the self-propelled particles simulator. Modelling a collective decision making problem with SPP: nest-selection using as quality measure the distance estimation. Deeping my knowledge of SPP models and collective motion (Vicsek).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Get information on arena tracking system from Alessandro Stranieri.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FNRS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers. Submit it to Robotics and Autonomous Systems. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS.</strong> <br />
Write the FNRS prject proposal. Submit it.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. Review of 2 Gecco 2013 papers for Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong><br />
<br /><br />
From micro to macro model. Study parametrization of the system. Study of collective decision making with multiple (possibly conflicting) metrics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Conclude my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: a Swarm Robotics Perspective. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6271PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-03-14T15:13:10Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assignment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Recommendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Research Activity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Research Activity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition literature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>7%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Selection of the self-propelled particles simulator. Modelling a collective decision making problem with SPP: nest-selection using as quality measure the distance estimation. Deeping my knowledge of SPP models and collective motion (Vicsek).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Get information on arena tracking system from Alessandro Stranieri.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FNRS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article according to the comments from the reviewers. Submit it to Robotics and Autonomous Systems. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Write the FNRS prject proposal. Submit it.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. Review of 2 Gecco 2013 papers for Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Collective decision making in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong><br />
From micro to macro model. Study parametrization of the system. Study of collective decision making with multiple (possibly conflicting) metrics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Conclude my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks: a Swarm Robotics Perspective. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6225PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-01-05T00:15:15Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
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<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>12%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article, and re-submission to another journal.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Write my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6224PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-01-05T00:14:00Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>12%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article, and re-submission to another journal.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Write my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6223PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2013-01-05T00:08:00Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Course: Distributed Collaboration in Multi-Robot Systems by Andrea Gasparri (Università Roma Tre)<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Get ready the required documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong> <br />
Registration issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: </strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br /><br />
Book of R. Solè "Phase Transitions". <br />
<br /><br />
Little part of the book of T. Vicsek "Fluctuations and Scaling in Biology". <br />
<br /><br />
Various articles (H. Hamann). <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transitions<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transitions.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br /><br />
First draft of the report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012</strong><br />
Preparation before the conference. Payment issues.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong><br />
BA2 with Mauro Birattari.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ECCS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>2%</strong> Rapport d'avancement de recherches.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>9%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 1 day National holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Report <em>"Phase Transitions in Collective Decision Making"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Read Dr. H. Hamann's Thesis.<br />
<br /><br />
Get experience with NetLogo.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ECCS 2012. </strong> 2/3 days at the European Conference on Complex Systems in Building K <br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong><br />
Preparation. Conference. Post-conference stuff.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Submission and related documents.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement de recherches.</strong><br />
Last minute presentation.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>October 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> FRIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FRIA.</strong><br />
Presentation: preparation and actual oral presentation on 25th Oct.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Literature on Complex Systems, Phase Transitions and Non Linear Differential Equations.<br />
<br /><br />
Studied in details the work of H. Hamann. Replicated his latest experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
Try to model the work of A. Brutschy et al. 2012 on task partitioning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Master's Thesis co-supervision (student: Jacopo De Stefani). English course.<br />
Review for BIONETICS 2012 (Vito).<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>November 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Holidays (1 day taken + 3 days National/ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Detailed study of the articles:<br /><br />
* <em>On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.</em> Marshall et al. 2009<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Weber's Law in Decision Making: Integrating Behavioral Data in Humans with a Neurophysiological Model.</em> Deco et al. 2007<br />
<br /><br />
* <em>Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.</em> Seeley et al. 2012<br />
<br /><br />
Get experienced with tools: Mathematica and Matlab.<br />
<br /><br />
Analytical study of the models described in the papers.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br /><br />
Collaborations with Michele Pace.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics. </strong> <br />
Retrieved and categorized works in the area: Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani. English course.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>December 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>8%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>13%</strong> Bersini courses<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Holidays (3 day taken + 6 days ULB holiday)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Set of experiments for testing if the biological models of nest selection in rock ants and honeybees follow the Weber's law of perception and decision making.<br />
<br /><br />
Report of work progress: <em>"Weber's Law in decision-making of social insect colonies"</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
Main supervisor: Vito.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Bersini courses. </strong> <br />
3 days as tutor in Python and Django.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2012:</strong> 22 days taken (1 day April + 3 days May + 1 day June + 12 days August + 1 day September + 1 day November + 3 days December).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (2 days), I reach 24 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>12%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>35%</strong> Distributed Path Planning<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>18%</strong> Holidays (2 day taken + 2 days ULB holiday) from 1st to 4th.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
First draft of my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong><br />
Fixing the article, and re-submission to another journal.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>February 2013</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> Collective decision making in Biology<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Collective decision making in Biology.</strong> <br />
<br /><br />
Define the first design pattern for collective decision making<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review on WSN in Swarm Robotics.</strong> <br />
Write my section (State of Art) of the book chapter Deployment and Re-deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in Swarm Robotics. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA.</strong><br />
Master students projects. Co-supervision of Jacopo De Stefani.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6108PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-09-04T16:10:07Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IRIDIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6092PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-07-12T13:24:53Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> Phase Transition<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6091PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-07-12T13:23:18Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6090PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-07-12T13:21:03Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6089PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-07-12T13:13:16Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Holidays (2 days: 1 day taken + 1 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=6088PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-07-12T13:09:26Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div>[[Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina]]<br />
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<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (Italian):</strong></td><br />
<td>+39 339 10 36 704</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Belgium):</strong></td><br />
<td>Rue de la Fourche, 51 - Bruxelles 1000</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Address (Italy):</strong></td><br />
<td>Via T. Grossi, 40 - Como 22100</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Review ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the FNRS proposal<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Website update. Submission deadline. Assigment to Tech Chairs. Letters to reviewers. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + Supervision WikiPage creation + Marco website + my website + English course<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Review ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Peer review of 3 articles submitted to ANTS 2012. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the FNRS proposal.</strong> <br />
Storing documents. Reccomendation letters. <br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>12.5%</strong> Holidays (3 days: 1 day taken + National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Review phase. Final decision phase. <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holidays (6 days: 3 day taken + 3 National holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Camera ready copy phase.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Master Student's Project + English course<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>June 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>95%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> <br />
Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results. Writing Journal Article. Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Program.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Closing the Distributed Path Planning project<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Various @IDISIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>65%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> <br />
Prepare documents. Print. Deliver.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Closing the Distributed Path Planning project</strong> <br />
Organize data. Storing files. Clean machines.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various @IDISIA</strong> <br />
Websites + ANTS<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity.</strong> <br />
Phase Transition litterature. Define the question to answer.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Summer holidays (12 days taken.)<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>New Reasearch Atctivity: Phase Transition</strong> <br />
Set up the experiment for aswering the question.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>70%</strong> New Reasearch Atctivity<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Phase Transition.</strong> <br />
Run the experiment and collect the first results that answer to my scientific question...<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> <br />
Conference.<br />
<br /><br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Logos&diff=6071Logos2012-07-03T11:23:01Z<p>Giovannireina: /* ULB */</p>
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[[Image:icon_warning.png|40px]] <br />
'''IMPORTANT:''' If you create a logo/graphic<br />
<br />
* [[#Sources|UPLOAD ITS SOURCE to the IRIDIA Repository]]. Otherwise it's lost when you'll leave the lab.<br />
<br />
* Every time you upload a new file (a new logo or a new revision of an existing one), MENTION IN THE DESCRIPTION the precise software and steps.<br />
<br />
* If you create a better version of some existing file, REPLACE IT by going to the page of the existing file and uploading a new revision.<br />
</div><br />
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<br />
== Sources ==<br />
<br />
The sources ([[Wikipedia:SVG|SVG]] vector files) of the logos below can be found in [[Development_Server|IRIDIA Repository]] at:<br />
<br />
https://iridia-dev.ulb.ac.be/projects/iridia_logos/svn<br />
<br />
== IRIDIA ==<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Classic B/W logo ===<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|[[Image:iridia_logo_classic_with_ulb.png|thumb|center|upright=1.4|IRIDIA Classic B/W version, with all text (PNG 300dpi). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:iridia_logo_classic_with_ulb.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
|[[Image:iridia_logo_classic_simple.png|thumb|center|upright=1.4|IRIDIA Classic B/W version, simpler without the name of the ULB (PNG 300dpi). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:iridia_logo_classic_simple.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
|[[Image:iridia_logo_classic_short.png|thumb|center|upright=1.4|IRIDIA Classic B/W version, short without any extra text (PNG 300dpi). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:iridia_logo_classic_short.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Modern B/W logo ===<br />
<br />
[[Image:iridia_logo_fancy.png|thumb|none|upright=2.5|IRIDIA Modern B/W version (PNG 300dpi). There is also a [[:Image:iridia_logo_fancy.pdf|PDF version]].]]<br />
<br />
== CoDE ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:code_logo_color.png|thumb|left|upright=1.5|CoDE logo (PNG). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:code_logo.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
[[Image:code_logo_bw.png|thumb|none|upright=1.5|CoDE logo black and white with stripes (PNG). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:code_logo_bw.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
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== ULB ==<br />
<br />
The ULB has a [http://www.ulb.ac.be/services/personnel/logos.html gallery with many official logos without text] and [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dre/com/index-signature.html another gallery with logos with text in different positions]. If you create a version that is not available there, please upload it saying how you created it (precise software and steps) and add it below.<br />
<br />
New working link: http://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/polytech/charte-polytech.html<br />
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== FNRS ==<br />
<br />
The logos below should be the same as the [http://www1.frs-fnrs.be/fr/communiquer-en-transparence/logos.html current official logo of the FNRS].<br />
<br />
== Project Logos ==<br />
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=== Swarmanoid ===<br />
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[[Image:swarmanoid_logo.png|thumb|none|upright=2|Swarmanoid logo bitmap only (PNG).]]<br />
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=== Swarm-bots ===<br />
<br />
[[Image:swarm-bots_logo.png|thumb|none|upright=2|Swarm-bots logo bitmap only (PNG)]]<br />
<br />
=== MetaNet ===<br />
<br />
[[Image:metanet_logo_color.png|thumb|left|upright=1.2|MetaNet color logo (PNG). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:metanet_logo_color.pdf|PDF format]].]]<br />
[[Image:metanet_logo_bw.png|thumb|none|upright=1.2|MetaNet black and white logo (PNG). There is also a scalable vector version in [[:Image:metanet_logo_bw.pdf|PDF format]].]]</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni_Reina&diff=5940PhDSupervision:Andreagiovanni Reina2012-03-05T13:45:53Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<br />
<strong>Aggiungi indirizzo, please. Meglio se sia Belga che italiano. Anche un tel. italiano può sempre essere utile.</strong><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft (at least table of content). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Additional experiments if needed. Writing journal article.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Complete the journal article.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> Preparation of the thesis. Defence.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics.</strong> Starting the project on Adaptive Morphogenesis. Definition of the work plan. (Probably) Starting with: (i) review of opinion dynamics models, (ii) implementation of state of the art of morphogenesis process on real robots.<br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5939Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-05T13:45:34Z<p>Giovannireina: Removing all content from page</p>
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<div></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5935Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-05T10:52:02Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
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<div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft (at least table of content). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Additional experiments if needed. Writing journal article.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Complete the journal article.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> Preparation of the thesis. Defence.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics.</strong> Starting the project on Adaptive Morphogenesis. Definition of the work plan. (Probably) Starting with: (i) review of opinion dynamics models, (ii) implementation of state of the art of morphogenesis process on real robots.<br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5934Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-05T10:47:20Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Starting bureaucracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment contains heterogeneous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distributed Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDSIA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br /><br />
<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master students for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completion of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft (at least table of content). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Additional experiments if needed. Writing journal article.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Complete the journal article.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> Preparation of the thesis. Defence.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics.</strong> Starting the project on Adaptive Morphogenesis. Definition of the work plan. (Probably) Starting with: (i) review of opinion dynamics models, (ii) implementation of state of the art of morphogenesis process on real robots.<br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5933Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-05T10:33:56Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
<hr />
<div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Strating burocracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment cointains heterogenous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>1</strong> day of holiday taken. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to answer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluster experiments <br /><br />
* plot results (statistics and visualization)<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDISA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference of high level like AAMAS.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among others I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br /><br />
<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. The writing activity was mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master studends for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<hr/><br />
<p><br />
<strong>Holiday Summary 2011:</strong> 14 days taken (1 day July + 5 days August + 8 days November).<br /><br />
Adding the holidays of beginning of January (4 days), I reach 18 days.<br />
</p><br />
<hr/><br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedbacks from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completition of the application. Submission.<br />
Crossed fingers.<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft (at least table of content). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Additional experiments if needed. Writing journal article.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Complete the journal article.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> Preparation of the thesis. Defence.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics.</strong> Starting the project on Adaptive Morphogenesis. Definition of the work plan. (Probably) Starting with: (i) review of opinion dynamics models, (ii) implementation of state of the art of morphogenesis process on real robots.<br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5931Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-02T19:23:37Z<p>Giovannireina: </p>
<hr />
<div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. Student:</strong></td><br />
<td>Andreagiovanni Reina</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Ph.D. started on:</strong></td><br />
<td>1st May, 2011</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (office):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32-2-650 31 65</td><br />
</tr><br />
<tr><br />
<td><strong>Phone number (mobile):</strong></td><br />
<td>+32 487 403 588</td><br />
</tr><br />
</table><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<strong>Structure of the page.</strong><br /><br />
Monthly report of activities with indication of percentage of time dedicated to each activity.<br />
The percentage is referred to the working time of one month (on average 22 days), that means that for example 10% correspond to 2.2 days, and 23% is one week (5 days). For simplicity I use 25% as one week, 50% as two weeks, and so on.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
Sometimes the sum of all the activities exceed the 100%, it means that I worked much more than the regularly 8 hours per day.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Strating burocracy, setup, integration in the Lab.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> E-SWARM website.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Validation of the foot-bot's sensors.</strong> The goal was to model the precision (and the noise) of all the foot-bot's sensors. I was supervised by Carlo. We tried different solutions for the modelling the light sensors. All the attempts for having a reliable automatic method have failed. We abandoned the task. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>E-SWARM website.</strong> Design, implementation, test and deployment of the E-SWARM website (http://www.e-swarm.org). <br /><br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>June 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>55%</strong> Proving that ARGoS simulates well.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>20%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Proving that ARGoS simulates well.</strong> <br />
Carlo needed to have an experiment where the simulated robot experiments coincide with the real robot experiments. <br />
Carlo needed that the proof of concept experiment cointains heterogenous swarms that collaborate. <br />
One of the past (unpublished) experiments of Carlo deals with the collaboration of heterogeneous swarms: <em>A swarm of aerial robots that guide a swarm of ground robots</em>. <br />
We decide to use this work for validating the simulator.<br /><br />
I start to collaborate with Carlo in order to perform real robot experiments and, in this way, validate the ARGoS simulator.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Learning and practicing with the HALCON software. <br /><br />
2 days of course at DataVision offices in Vlaardingen, Netherlands. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>July 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>60%</strong> A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Arena tracking system.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Swarm robotics literature.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning.<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots.</strong> <br />
We have proved (in June) that on real robot the scenario we are studying can be executed, but we do not have clear the experiments we want to do.<br /><br />
We try to define possible questions we want to aswer with our experiments. <br /><br />
We start trying solutions, getting results and thinking on the results.<br /><br />
The main activities were:<br /><br />
* design experiments <br /><br />
* implement controllers <br /><br />
* run cluester experiments <br /><br />
* plot results <br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Arena tracking system.</strong> Test of the tracking software. I and Alessandro have created the tags to apply on the footbots and we started the first tracking experiments. <br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Swarm robotics literature.</strong> Reading papers and books about swarm robotics. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Getting ready for the VERY SHORT visiting period at IDISA. I tried to have everything ready for the real robot experiments. But not enough time. :( Many things still to do.</p><br />
<br />
<h3>August 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (5 days taken)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
Visiting IDSIA for 3 weeks (working day and night). <br /><br />
Created a COMPLETE REAL ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
1 week holiday.<br /><br />
TAROS Conference in Sheffield, UK. (best poster award)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>September 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>120%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
I put all my effort in this project. (Unfortunately) Carlo was not in Belgium, due to the combination of the (already planned) conference IROS and holidays. Therefore, I was working mainly alone with the weekly supervision of Mauro.<br /><br />
I did my best to turn the work <br />
<!--that (in my opinion) was not scientifically interesting,--><br />
to a valid scientific contribution.<br />
I tried to give a scientific sense to the already present work. I tried to find an interesting message and to design experiments that give results which support the message.<br /><br />
Unfortunately, one month of intensive work was not enough: the message (and the scientific contribution) was still small for being accepted in a conference on the level of AAMAS.<br /><br /><br />
<br />
During the month of September, I carried out a set of activities, among other I list the main ones:<br /><br />
* Problem (re)definition<br /><br />
* Design of the experiments<br /><br />
* Implementation of the robotic controllers<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Documentation<br /><br />
<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>October 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>80%</strong> AAMAS paper: A ceiling robot guides a swarm of ground robots (work with Carlo and Mauro).<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>15%</strong> Arena tracking system. + ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>5%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>AAMAS paper.</strong> Working on the conclusion of the work with Carlo. Writing activity mainly carried out by Carlo. I took care about all the rest. <br /><br />
Here a brief list of the main activities:<br /><br />
* Writing of the first draft of the paper. <br /><br />
* Real robot experiments<br /><br />
* Execution of large set of experiments on the cluster<br /><br />
* Result data analysis (statistics and plots)<br /><br />
* Real robot video<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Tracking system.</strong> I and Alessandro evaluated the performance of the tracking system and designed the hardware requirements for the new arena. <br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Web sites updates (PC members, CFP, invited talks, ...). </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>November 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> Master student supervision + Various tasks @IRIDIA.<br />
<br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Holiday (8 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Adding a new small functionality. Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Master student supervision.</strong> Started to work with 2 Master studends for the 2 projects of master I proposed: <em>Web Community for Robotic Software</em> and <em>A web visualizer for ARGoS</em>.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>December 2011</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>50%</strong> Distribiuted Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>20%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>5%</strong> Various tasks @IRIDIA<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (0 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distribiuted Path Planning.</strong> Restructuring the code. Preparing the code for running on the cluster.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Starting to clarify the ideas. Selecting the topic. Focus the attention on what I want to study. Started collaboration with Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>Various tasks @IRIDIA.</strong> Master Student's supervision. Tracking system. ANTS 2012. Marco Dorigo's web pages. </p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>January 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>40%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<strong>25%</strong> Holiday (4 days taken + National/ULB holidays)<br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Focusing on the topic. Firsts drafts. Weekly feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<strong>ANTS 2012.</strong> Publicity and Online Conference System setup. <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>February 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>90%</strong> FNRS Application <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>10%</strong> ANTS 2012 + Master Students<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>FNRS Application.</strong> Writing project proposal. Daily feedback from Vito and Alexander.<br />
Completition of the application. Submission.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h2>Future months plans:</h2><br />
<br />
<h3>March 2012</h3><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Running experiments on the cluster. Analysis of the results (statistics and plots). First draft (at least table of content). Main supervisor: Gianni.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>April 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>100%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Additional experiments if needed. Writing joural article.<br />
<br /><br />
</p><br />
<br />
<h3>May 2012</h3><br />
<p><br />
<em>Project / Time:</em><br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Distributed Path Planning <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> Rapport d'avancement des recherches <br />
<br /><br />
<strong>30%</strong> AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics <br />
</p><br />
<br />
<p><br />
<em>Description:</em> <br /><br />
<strong>Distributed Path Planning.</strong> Complete the journal article.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>Rapport d'avancement des recherches.</strong> Preparation of the thesis. Defence.<br />
<br /><br /><br />
<strong>AMOS: Adaptive Morphogenesis in Swarm Robotics.</strong> Starting the project on Adaptive Morphogenesis. Definition of the work plan. (Probably) Starting with: (i) review of opinion dynamics models, (ii) implementation of state of the art of morphogenesis process on real robots.<br />
</p></div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Category:PhDSupervision_Andrea_Giovanni_Reina&diff=5922Category:PhDSupervision Andrea Giovanni Reina2012-03-01T17:45:24Z<p>Giovannireina: New page: This is a test.</p>
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<div>This is a test.</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Workstation_configuration&diff=5796Workstation configuration2011-11-16T14:15:47Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Firewall configuration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Network configuration ==<br />
You should get a static IP from the system administrator. Your hostname will be the name of a famous scientist and the domain is ulb.ac.be. Other relevant addresses are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Description<br />
! IP address<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gateway<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.254<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
DNS1<br />
|<br />
164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
You might also need to add the following data, althoug many systems set it automatically:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!Description<br />
!Value<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Network<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Netmask<br />
|<br />
255.255.255.0<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Broadcast<br />
|<br />
164.15.10.255<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Wi-Fi network configuration ===<br />
At IRIDIA lab there are two wireless networks. To join any of them you should get the password from the system administrator. Relevant configuration data are:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || Hashmal<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 4<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP/WPA/WPA2<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|- <br />
! Description !! Value<br />
|- <br />
|| Network name || sbot<br />
|- <br />
|| Radio mode || 802.11b/g Compatible<br />
|-<br />
|| Channel || 6<br />
|-<br />
|| Wireless Security Mode || 128bit WEP<br />
|- <br />
|| DNS Server || 164.15.59.200<br />
|-<br />
|| Distributed IPs || IPs are provided through DHCP from iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Firewall configuration ==<br />
Since the computers are available through direct connections from internet you should protect your machine with a firewall.<br />
Linux provides an integrated mechanism for accepting or rejecting incoming packets. <br />
<br />
If you want to setup a good firewall quickly, you may use the following link :<br />
[http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/ Firewall script generator]<br />
<br />
<br />
'''How to generate the firewall script ?'''<br />
<br />
<br />
Usually, the interface to internet is eth0. You can check your available interfaces<br />
by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ifconfig -a''<br />
<br />
Most of the time, you wish to have an access to the computer, but you still want it<br />
to be secure. The best is to disable any inbound service except SSH. The SSH connections<br />
are encrypted so that you can safely access to the computer even if someone is tcpdumping<br />
your connection.<br />
<br />
For the moment, I don't know how to use the Fireparse format. If you know about it<br />
just use it. Otherwise you'll have to take a look at the logs (''/var/log/syslog'') to<br />
monitor the possible network problems or attacks.<br />
<br />
Now that you have all the necessary informations, you can generate the firewall script.<br />
Name this script ''iptables'', give it execution rights (''chmod u+x iptables'') and put it under the directory ''/etc/init.d/''. <br />
<br />
Be aware that the script loads some iptables modules in your kernel. If you have recompiled your kernel then you<br />
should ensure that the necessary modules are present. If you have statically linked the code to the kernel<br />
then you should remove the modprobe commands in the firewall's script.<br />
<br />
Now simply add a symbolic link in the runlevel 2 to this script by typing (as root) :<br />
<br />
''# ln -s /etc/init.d/iptables /etc/rc2.d/S12iptables''<br />
<br />
<br />
You should adapt the number 12 to your needs. The firewall must be run as early as possible. <br />
For example if telnet services are run before it, an attack is still possible. Be careful about this.<br />
<br />
If you want to understand more deeply iptables, you can check the following URLs :<br />
<br />
[http://www.netfilter.org/ Iptables official website]<br />
<br />
[http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html Iptables tutorial and explanations]<br />
<br />
[http://lea-linux.org/reseau/iptables.html Setting up a firewall using iptables (in french)]<br />
<br />
== Printer configuration ==<br />
<br />
<br />
All three printers at IRIDIA (see table "General Information") can be installed as "network printers" on your operating system ([https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/printing/C/printing.html#network Ubuntu 8.10], [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8670.html Mac OS X], [http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/WinXP/printing.html Windows XP]). On *nix-like systems (should work also Mac OS X but if you have problems read next paragraph), the most convenient option is to install the printers using the '''LPD/LPR printing protocol''' and the drivers provided in the table below. These drivers also support some additional (hardware) features installed on the printers as listed in the table "Installable Options". On Windows XP, please install the driver '''before''' setting up a network printer. If asked to specify a "QUEUE", leave it in blank or use the value "raw_queue". The paper size should be set to A4, otherwise printers may get blocked. If you have difficulties, please contact the printers administrator (currently [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/ Nithin Mathews]). <br />
<br />
On some Mac (e.g. MacBook with Mac Os X 10.5.6) you could have problems printing in duplex mode (double side) with the Ricoh printers (Gutenberg should be fine). When you add the two printers the system will use the default postscript drivers that do not support duplex mode. Installing the suggested unix drivers does not help. The best solution is to go to the links listed under "Windows / Mac" in the table "Driver" and download the installer and install the proper driver.<br />
<br />
'''General Information'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! URL<br />
! Model<br />
! Location<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
gutenberg.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
HP4100 PS<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
meucci.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio MP 3350<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
sabin.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio mp161 spf<br />
|<br />
Office C.5.106A<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Torricelli<br />
|<br />
torricelli.ulb.ac.be<br />
|<br />
Ricoh Aficio 1027<br />
|<br />
Room full of crap next to the main entrance<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Drivers'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! *nix<br />
! Windows / Mac<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd HP_LaserJet_4100_Series.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=29118&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=83436&cc=us HP LaserJet 4100 Printer series]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_3350_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp33/mp33en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Torricelli<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_1027_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_1027_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[TODO]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mathews/printer_drivers/Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd Ricoh-Aficio_MP_161_PXL.ppd]<br />
|<br />
[http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc2/model/mp161/mp161en.htm PCL 6 Driver]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Installable Options'''<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Name<br />
! Options<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
Gutenberg<br />
|<br />
* Tray 3: Installed<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
* Printer Hard Disk: Ram Disk<br />
* Total Memory: 32 - 63MB<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Meucci<br />
|<br />
* Bypass Tray: Installed<br />
* Optional Tray: Lower Paper Trays<br />
* Upper Internal Tray: Installed<br />
* Finisher: SR790<br />
* Duplex Unit: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Sabin<br />
|<br />
* Lower Paper Tray: Installed<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Ubuntu 9.10 Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* System->Administration->Printing<br />
* New<br />
* Network Printer URL: socket://meucci.ulb.ac.be:9100<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Windows XP Instructions'''<br />
<br />
* Download Drivers based on model number from http://www.ricoh-support.com<br />
** Expand into folder somewhere (e.g. on Desktop)<br />
* Control Panel -> Printers -> Add New Printer<br />
* Local Printer -> Create new TCP/IP port<br />
** Make sure outgoing network ports SNMP (161) and 9100 are open<br />
** Port IP: meucci.ulb.ac.be Port Name: meucci<br />
* Select Have Disk in Printer Driver Screen<br />
** Navigate to Expanded folder downloaded with drivers<br />
** Select OEM.. file. (Only one to show up)<br />
<br />
== The IRIDIA and the ULB network ==<br />
The IRIDIA system administrator can create an account on the local subnet for you, however, if you want to have access to some of the computer services of the university, you'll need an account on the university network as well. Ask the secretary for the forms and the process. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Mail configuration ==<br />
Assuming that you have an account on both the local and the university network the mail settings are as follows:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
! Service<br />
! URL<br />
|- <br />
|<br />
SMTP<br />
|<br />
smtp.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia POP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Iridia IMAP<br />
|<br />
iridia.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB POP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB IMAP<br />
|<br />
pop.ulb.ac.be<br />
|}<br />
<br />
The SMTP server does not require authentication. The POP and IMAP services of ULB accept unsecure connections (no SSL). The POP and IMAP servers of Iridia require secure connections (with SSL).<br />
<br />
There are also web interfaces available to read the email if you can not connect to the above servers via POP or IMAP:<br />
<br />
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
!SERVER<br />
!URL<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
ULB<br />
|<br />
[https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php https://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/webmail2/webmail.php]<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
IRIDIA<br />
|<br />
[https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/ https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/squirrelmail/]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
<br />
== See also ==<br />
[[Software HOWTOs]]<br />
<br />
<br />
== For Mac OS X users ==<br />
In order to help Mac OS X users staying updated for what concerne security issues with their systems we suggest to subscribe to the following mailing list:<br />
<br />
[http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce Security-announce -- product security notifications and announcements from Apple]<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Mac OS X Software to setup your research environment ===<br />
Here you can find a list of softwares that you might want to check out:<br />
<br />
* LaTeX & BibTeX<br />
[http://www.tug.org/mactex/ MacTeX.dmg package] - Easy-to-Install Package, which contains a complete and up to date TeX system from Gerben Weirda's gwTeX redistribution;<br />
Free<br />
<br />
[http://macromates.com/ Textmate] - editor (and much more); Commercial<br />
<br />
[http://www2.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html TeXniscope] - DVI/PDF previewer <br />
(synchronization with external editors (e.g. Emacs) both for DVI/PDF files); Free, sources available<br />
<br />
<br />
* Statistical analysis<br />
[http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/bin/macosx/ R.app] - Cocoa-based GUI for R; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
<br />
* Secure Shell<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ MacFUSE] - a FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism; <br />
Free, BSD-licence<br />
<br />
[http://www.macfusionapp.org/ MacFusion] - a GUI for MacFUSE; <br />
Free, APSL-licence<br />
<br />
<br />
* Version Control System<br />
[http://media.clickablebliss.com/screencasts/intro_to_subversion_small.mov (QuickTime movie with introduction to Subversion)]<br />
<br />
[http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/ svnX] - a GUI for Subversion; Free, GPL<br />
<br />
[http://www.versionsapp.com/ Versions] - Mac Subversion client; Commercial<br />
<br />
===Project management on Mac OS X===<br />
[http://www.merlin2.net/ Merlin 2]<br />
Commercial<br />
([http://www.macresearch.org/review_merlin_2 Review of the program by MacResearch.org])</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5667Ffmpeg2011-10-19T08:35:00Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* -ss: starting time (e.g. -ss 00:00:45.0 it cut the first 45 seconds of the video)<br />
* -t: time (length) of the video (e.g. -t 00:00:15.0 it takes only 15 seconds of the input video)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b:v 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -an -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
* Cut a video (from second 15 to second 45)<br />
ffmpeg -ss 00:00:15.0 -t 00:00:30.0 -i inputVideo.avi outputVideo.avi<br />
<br />
==== How to embed a streaming movie into your supplementary material webpage ====<br />
<br />
1. Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg, MP4 and Webm:<br />
<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi -b 1024k video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi -b 1024k video.mp4<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi -b 1024k video.webm<br />
<br />
2. Use the following video tag:<br />
<br />
<video controls="controls" height="480" width="320" ><br />
<source id="mp4_src" src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </source><br />
<source id="ogg_src" src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg"> </source><br />
<source id="webm_src" src="video.webm" type="video/webm"> </source><br />
your browser does not support the video tag<br />
</video><br />
<br />
The browser will try, one by one sequentially, the formats listed in the list of sources, and will adopt the first one that works.<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5660Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:52:52Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* -ss: starting time (e.g. -ss 00:00:45.0 it cut the first 45 seconds of the video)<br />
* -t: time (length) of the video (e.g. -t 00:00:15.0 it takes only 15 seconds of the input video)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -an -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
* Cut a video (from second 15 to second 45)<br />
ffmpeg -ss 00:00:15.0 -t 00:00:30.0 -i inputVideo.avi outputVideo.avi<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5659Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:52:08Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* -ss: starting time (e.g. -ss 00:00:45.0 it cut the first 45 seconds of the video)<br />
* -t: time (length) of the video (e.g. -t 00:00:15.0 it takes only 15 seconds of the input video)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -an -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
* Cut a video (from second 15 to second 45)<br />
ffmpeg -ss 00:00:15.0 -t 00:00:30.0<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5658Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:50:18Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Some options */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* -ss: starting time (e.g. -ss 00:00:45.0 it cut the first 45 seconds of the video)<br />
* -t: time (length) of the video (e.g. -t 00:00:15.0 it takes only 15 seconds of the input video)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -an -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5657Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:48:00Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -an -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5656Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:47:32Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Examples */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
* Rotate a video, remove audio and convert to avi<br />
ffmpeg -vf "transpose=2" -sameq -i 00000.MTS video.avi<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5655Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:26:08Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Some options */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireinahttps://iridia.ulb.ac.be/w/index.php?title=Ffmpeg&diff=5654Ffmpeg2011-10-18T12:25:59Z<p>Giovannireina: /* Some options */</p>
<hr />
<div>These are the steps to convert a set of frames (in the format frame_xxxxx.bmp) to a video.<br />
<br />
==== Some options ====<br />
* -f image2 : to start from a set of frames (not a video)<br />
* -i input : the input value<br />
* -r xx.xxxx : frames per second (that is, fps given by the camera when recording)<br />
* -b xxxxk : specify the bitrate (higher = better quality, larger file size)<br />
* -threads 0 : optimal thread usage<br />
* -an : no audio<br />
* -vcodec libx264 : uses the best and newest codec (on ubuntu it's in the libx264-106 packet)<br />
* -vpre xxxx : codec quality (see [http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html here] )<br />
* -vf : video filtes for adding filters (to have a list of available filters type 'ffmpeg -filters'). here below useful filters:<br />
*** "transpose=1" : rotates the video (1 rotates by 90 degrees clockwise; 2 rotates by 90 degrees counterclockwise)<br />
* output.ext : output is the name of the file, ext is the extension. Note that selecting mp4 or avi produces different files (is not just a name!)<br />
<br />
==== Examples ====<br />
<br />
* Low quality video, fast result: <br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre fast video_fast.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality (slow, high quality)::<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -an -vpre hq -b 2000k video2000k.avi<br />
<br />
* High quality, 2 pass (very slow, even higher quality):<br />
** note that there are actually two commands (hence the &&), the first generates the first pass to get the info necessary for the second pass. The command generates 4 files: video_2pass1.avi (the first pass, useless, can be deleted), video_2pass2.avi (the video itself, to keep) and 2 log files (delete them if you need to create another 2pass video)<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre fastfirstpass -b 2000k -pass 1 video_2pass1.avi &&<br />
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 12.0205 -i frame_%05d.bmp -an -vcodec libx264 -threads 0 -vpre hq -b 2000k -pass 2 video_2pass2.avi<br />
<br />
A note about doing videos from ARGoS2. The size of the images depends on the size of the window, so make sure that the size of the window is the one you like and also that both sizes are divisible by 2, otherwise x264 might complain.<br />
<br />
* Convert Avi (or any video) to Ogg or Webm (useful to embed in the HTML5 video tag)<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.ogv<br />
ffmpeg -i video.avi video.webm<br />
<br />
==== Useful links ====<br />
* http://juliensimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/howto-ffmpeg-x264-presets.html<br />
* http://rodrigopolo.com/ffmpeg/cheats.html<br />
<br />
--[[User:Manubrambi|Manubrambi]] 09:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)</div>Giovannireina