Robotics weekly meetings

Purpose

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

Format

1. Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)
   • Work you have been doing
   • Reading you have been doing in the context of your work
   • Other reading on something you are passionate about

Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:

• Send round material to be read beforehand.
• Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.
• Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.

Timing & Attendance

The weekly meetings take place on

Tuesday at 14.00 (temporary time schedule)

Unless:

• A given Tuesday is a public holiday, or
• Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.

If either should happen the meeting is postponed to the next day.

Please indicate on this wiki page if you are not going to be able to attend a meeting (no later than the Friday before).

If you forget to note your absence in advance you will be severely punished and will be forced to buy a nice, big cake for the following meeting.

Forthcoming Meetings

Tuesday 17th May 2011 - Manuele

Agenda

• Manuele will rehearse the defense of his DEA thesis.
  • Title: Collective Transport with Obstacle Avoidance through Socially-Mediated Negotiation

Reading material

• None

People who will be absent

Tuesday 31st May 2011 - Eliseo

Agenda

• Information Transfer for Collective Decision-Making in Partially Informed Swarms of Robots
  • Communication strategies for accurate and cohesive flocking in stationary and non-stationary environments (running title)
  • Abstract coming soon

Reading material

• None

People who will be absent

• Alex