View source for Previous MEETROBOT2008 meetings

==Wednesday 7th November 2007 - Alex+Alvaro ==

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#*We will present two different works:
#* Infrared Communication on the Epucks : We have developed a library that takes care of the proximity sensors and uses them as a communication system. Local communication is up to 33B/sec getting the distance and direction of the source as well. A proof of concept (Now you do what they told you) will be shown during the meeting.
#* Sharing knowledge to stay on the path : We have some simulations dealing with odometry errors to find nest and prey in a closed arena. Robots communicate between them to reduce dead-reckoning error. Here we present a first attempt to accomplish the task. Results show the importance of social learning with local communication without the need of a global knowledge. 

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==Friday 23rd November 2007 - Post-Swarmanoid Review Meeting discussion ==

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#* ''Swarms of hand-bots:'' Brainstorming about a swarm based task. The proposals will be added to the Swarmanoid Wiki pages.

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==Thursday 6th December 2007 - Christos ==

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* The Evolution of Self-Assembly in a group of two homogeneous robots.
I will present my latest work on evolving self-assembly. The same dynamical neural network controls two sbots, providing the decision-making about who grips whom, but also directly controlling the actuators for the gripping action. This type of work differs significantly from work addressing the same issue performed previously in the lab.  

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==Wednesday 16th January 2008 - Marco ==

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* Social learning in swarms

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==Wednesday 6th February 2008 - Takashi ==

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*  Observation and Control of Robots Behaviors by Thermodynamics-based
Macroscopic State Values

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==Thursday 6th March 2008 - Alex ==

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* Colective Measures

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==Thursday 13th March 2008 - Rehan ==

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*Morphology control using SWARMORPH-script.
Rapid development using an interpreted scripting language on the
robots.
 

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==Thursday 27th March 2008 - Navneet ==

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*Automated Design of Two Dimensional Self-assembling Systems

In this presentation, I will discuss the research I have planned for the
remainder of my Ph.D. (to get feedback before I submit my formal
research proposal and write my candidacy exams this May). 

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==Thursday 17th April 2008 - Carlo ==

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#* Diversity and Communication in the Swarmanoid Project

I will speak about some ideas I had for communication between eye-bots and foot-bots. The aim of the presentation is to get feedback (what's interesting, what's not) and to trigger a discussion to develop the presented ideas.

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==Thursday 24th April 2008 - Giovanni + Xavier  ==

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==Thursday 8th May 2008 - Arne ==

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==Thursday 22nd May 2008 - Eliseo ==

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#* Distributed Perception and Autonomous Learning in Swarmanoid

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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/b/be/Eliseo_pres.tar.gz Extended Abstract]

* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/2/2e/Distributed_Perception_and_Autonomous_Learning_in_Swarmanoid.pdf Slides in pdf]

* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/wiki/images/7/78/DPAL.tar.gz Slides (sources) in pptx]

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==Thursday 5th June 2008 - Handbot Discussion ==

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* We're going to discuss the answers given by Francesco Mondada concerting the handbot's limitations

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* Francescos email, list of questions, IRIDIA new scenario proposal

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==Thursday 19th June 2008 - Marco ==

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==Wednesday 4th February 2009 - Internal Meeting - Room C2-223, 2nd floor==

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#* None
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#* Swarmanoid Project: Camera Segmentation Software

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==Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Giovanni and Arne - Room C2-223, 2nd floor==

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#* Interference Reduction through Task Partitioning
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#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

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==Wednesday 18th February 2009 - Rehan - Room might not be available==

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#* Morphogenesis (please edit)
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#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

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==Wednesday 25th February 2009 - Carlo - Room not defined==

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#* Group Formation (please edit)
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#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

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==Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor==

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#* The behavioral toolkit
#* PhatBot Navigation
#* Social Learning experiment (early feedback)
#* Future work and feedback
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#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

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