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==Wednesday 14th December - Shervin ==
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'''''Agenda'''''
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# '''Presentation / Discussion'''
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#*There's not too much that changed since my last talk.
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#*I will (very) shortly present the reimplemented version of my controller on twodee,
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#*talk about the experiments which I prepared and which I intend to run before xmas,
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#*introduce the idea for a new controller.
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#*If there's any interest I can show photos from Cuba....
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# '''Robotics Group Admin'''
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#* The last meeting before Christmas (Dec 21st)
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#* MEETROBOT 2006
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'''''Reading material'''''
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'''''People who will be absent'''''
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'''''Results'''''
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[[Media:TalkIridia_14.Dec.2005.pdf | Download presentation (pdf)]]
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* '''The last meeting of the year (next week)''': Paola and Federico are leaving so we are going to make this sad day by having a lot of fun starting at 16h00.
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*'''MEETROBOT 2006''': The weekly robotics meetings will continue the 11th of January 2006.
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*'''NASA and swarm-robotics''':
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** Interview: http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/hopping_microbots.html
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** NASA's page: http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1798&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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==Wednesday 7th December - Movie ==
  
==Wednesday 7th December - Movie ==
   

Revision as of 16:45, 11 January 2006


Wednesday 14th December - Shervin

Agenda

  1. Presentation / Discussion
    • There's not too much that changed since my last talk.
    • I will (very) shortly present the reimplemented version of my controller on twodee,
    • talk about the experiments which I prepared and which I intend to run before xmas,
    • introduce the idea for a new controller.
    • If there's any interest I can show photos from Cuba....
  2. Robotics Group Admin
    • The last meeting before Christmas (Dec 21st)
    • MEETROBOT 2006


Reading material


People who will be absent


Results

Download presentation (pdf)





Wednesday 7th December - Movie

Agenda

  1. Presentation / Discussion
  2. Robotics Group Admin


Reading material


People who will be absent

Marco: I am currently flying from Lyon to Dublin




Wednesday 30th November - Roderich

Agenda

  1. Urgent stuff
    • MARCO: We need to briefly discuss the ongoing reparation of our s-bots


  1. Presentation / Discussion
    • This talk is related to my visit to Japan. I will provide an overview about:
    • reasons to go there
    • how to get funding (JSPS programs)
    • some robotics research labs
    • my research and the environment
  2. Robotics Group Admin


Reading material

  • NONE


People who will be absent


Results

Download presentation (pdf ~40MB)

  • For the real s-bots the batteries are going to be replaced.
  • The common interface is ready. It currently works on the real s-bots and in the TwoDee simulator.




Wednesday 23rd November - Christos

Agenda

  1. Presentation / Discussion
    • Communication - some brief overview, some definitions (this was supposed to have been discussed some months ago when nobody showed up to discuss a related paper I proposed, I guess this time with some "pressure" you will all be there and super-motivated and interested, what a wonderful world...
    • I am going to talk on my work on the Evolution of Communication in cases where there is no fitness reward for signalling-reaction to the signal. What conditions seem to favour the evolution of communication?
    • An idea for extention, an intro for my next talk, maybe?
  2. Robotics Group Admin
    • Arena camera


Reading material


People who will be absent

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

Results

Download the presentation (pdf)

  • No news on the arena camera
  • Rehan and Anders are still working (hard) on the common s-bot interface.


Wednesday 16th November - Elio

Agenda

  1. Presentation / Discussion
    • Title: General, Universal, even worst Global: I'm against, better ANTI-.

The talk is meant to be a brief introduction mixed with some personal conclusions concerning the Theory of Direct Perception and its significance in the domain of Evolutionary Robotics.

Robotics Group Admin

  • Arena camera
  • Common interface
  • OMiss and 2D kinematics
  • Duration of the meetings


Reading material

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


People who will be absent

Marco, Federico, Rodi

Results

Download the presentation (pdf)

  • Arena camera: Federico was not present - postponed to next meeting
  • Common interface: Rehan and Anders are working on it now.
  • OMiss and 2D kinematics: It is a good idea, but no one at IRIDIA really needs it now, and no one has the time to work on it.
  • Duration of the meetings: We will try to limit the meetings to 60 mins.



Wednesday 9th November - Federico

Agenda

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


Reading material

  1. Reference for my simulator benchmarking: the Quinn experiment @ Sussex (pdf)
  2. Reference for automotive navigation usign evolutionary approach (pdf)


People who will be absent

N/A


Results

Download the presentation (pdf)

  • We had no time to discuss the points on the agenda, so they have been postponed till next meeting.



Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan

Agenda

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


Location Ping pong room


Reading Material

  • There is no reading material for this weeks presentation


People who will be absent

Elio, Thomas

Results

Download Presentation (PDF)

  • Coffee machine: Various options available. Ciro is taking care of calling the people in charge of the ULB expresso machine deal.
  • New wiki pages:
  • Career developement plans online: Alex is going to propose a technology for the next meeting, which allows us to have up-to-date career development plans online, but only accessible by the student in question and his/her supervisor.
  • Arena camera: Federico is going to look into camera software and hardware for next weeks meeting (for the arena, since the movies shot with the current camera are of poor quality.
  • OMiss with 2D dynamics: We all believe that having the OMiss work with a 2D dynamics engine as well as ODE would be a good idea for many experiments. It might take too much time to implement though and no one seemed too keen on actually implementing it. We will see at the next meeting.


Wednesday 26th October - Anders

Presentation / Discussion Topics

Dependability and fault-tolerance in Robotics:

  • What is fault-tolerance and dependability?
  • What has been done in robotics?
  • How could fault tolerance be implemented in a swarm robotics context?

Administration Issues

  • Coffee machine
  • New documents on the Wiki.
  • Next week...
  • The new e-pucks
  • Simulators and swarm-bot interfaces

People who will be absent

Elio, Rodi, Christos

Results

Download Presentation(PDF)

  • General: The topics on the agenda, which are of general interest are moved to the beginning of the meeting, so that non-robotics people can attend at a fixed hour each week.
  • Coffee machine:
    • Marco buys a new one when he comes across a good, new coffee machine (suggestions are very welcome)
    • Mauro is in charge of sending the current, broken machine to someone who can repair it.
  • New Wiki-pages:
  • Wiki security: For certain parts of the Wiki it would be convenient to have access control, so that only people from IRIDIA can access those pages. Anders will look into that.
  • E-pucks: All the available info on the e-pucks will be put on the Wiki.
  • Sbot/simulator interfaces: Rehan is going to create a repository for the common sbot interface and it is going to be implemented in TwoDee.
  • OMiss simulator: Rehan is going to create a Wiki page on checking out and compiling OMiss (the new simulator based on ODE).



Wednesday 19th October 2005 - Alexandre

Presentation / Discussion Topics

The main topic is optimal multi-foraging in swarm robotics.

  • I will present my latest developments and results
  • Go again through goals, motivations and bibliography (renewed).
  • Discussion about the context of this work, possible applications ?
  • I might present, if there is time left, my next experiment.

You can take a look at this very quick summary of my current research : http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~acampo/various/alex_research.pdf

Administration Issues

  • Coffee machines
  • Format of these meetings
  • Standard programatic interface for simulators / real sbots.

People who will be absent

Rodi

Results

You can download a copy of Alex's presentation

  • The optimization group will have their own weekly presentations, but the will invite robotics people to participate, just like the swarm-bots presentations are open to optimization people. Seminars will continue as always and presentations might be given both at weekly meetings and at seminars.
  • Anders brings his coffee machine to test it. In case it pass the Italian test, we will buy one while the super-machine is being fixed.
  • Simulators and a standard interface for simulators:
    • Rehan and Alex are going to talk to Vito and make a plan
    • Rehan proposed Halva's interface, which he is going to send to Ciro and Anders for discussion on the next meeting
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