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+ | =Forthcoming Meetings= |
| + | ==Tuesday 17th May 2011 - Manuele == |
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| − | See [[Previous MEETROBOT2008 meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (2007-2008)]]. |
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| − | See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (older)]]. |
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| − | ==Wednesday 4th February 2009 - Internal Meeting - Room C2-223, 2nd floor== |
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'''''Agenda''''' |
'''''Agenda''''' |
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# '''Presentation''' |
# '''Presentation''' |
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| + | #* Manuele will rehearse the defense of his DEA thesis. |
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| − | #* None |
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# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Swarmanoid Project: Camera Segmentation Software |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | '''''People who will be absent''''' |
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| − | ==Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Giovanni - Room C2-223, 2nd floor== |
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| − | '''''Agenda''''' |
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| − | # '''Presentation''' |
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| − | #* Interference Reduction through Task Partitioning |
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| − | The talk is about the use of task partitioning as a way to reduce |
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| − | interference in a spatially constrained harvesting task. Interference |
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| − | is one of the key problems in large cooperating groups. We present a |
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| − | simple method to allocate individuals of a robotic swarm to a |
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| − | partitioned task, and study how this task partition can increase system |
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| − | performance by reducing sources of interference. The method is |
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| − | experimentally studied, both in an environment with a constrained area |
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| − | and an environment without the constraint. |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | '''''People who will be absent''''' |
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| − | ==Wednesday 18th February 2009 - Carlo - Meeting room in Architecture Dept.== |
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| − | '''''Agenda''''' |
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| − | # '''Presentation''' |
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| − | #* Heterogeneous Group Size Regulation (please edit) |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | ==Wednesday 25th February 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223, 2nd floor== |
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| − | ==Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor== |
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| − | ==Wednesday 11th March 2009 - Rehan - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor - Start at 16.30== |
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| − | '''''Agenda''''' |
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| − | # '''Presentation''' |
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| − | #* Morphogenesis (please edit) |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | ==Thursday 19th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Paduart Room, 4th floor - Start at 16.30== |
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| − | #* Phat-bot Assembly and Navigation |
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| − | #* The behavioral toolkit |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined |
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| − | '''''Abstract''''': |
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| − | In this talk we will present the work we have been doing on the phat-bot |
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| − | assembly and navigation. All the controllers were implemented with a new |
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| − | architecture in mind, which made the modularity of the behaviors possible |
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| − | in ARGoS. We call this architecture "Behavioral Toolkit" and we will present |
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| − | it also during the talk. |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | '''''People who will be absent''''' |
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| − | ==Wednesday 25th March 2009 - Marco - Paduart Room, 4th floor - Start at 16.30== |
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| − | #* Local social influence mechanisms for collective decision making: A swarm robotics experiment |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | '''''Abstract''''': |
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| − | In human societies, groups are often perceived as superior |
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| − | decision making entities than individuals. When an important decision |
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| − | has to be made, groups are formed to decide on the issue. Examples |
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| − | include referenda, elections, and juries. When individuals are part of a |
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| − | decision making group, they are subject to social influences that can |
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| − | affect their perception and/or their opinion on the issue. Our work is |
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| − | inspired by this fact and we investigate whether local social influence |
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| − | mechanisms can make a population of robots choose the best of two |
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| − | competing alternatives. |
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| − | In our experiment, a swarm of robots is faced with a binary decision |
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| − | problem: go foraging to the left, or to the right; or push or pull a |
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| − | family of objects, for example. Associated to each choice there is a |
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| − | cost which is the time it takes for a group to perform the task. I will |
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| − | show you preliminary results that suggest that simple local decision |
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| − | rules can make an uninformed population (or even a negatively biased |
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| − | one) choose the best strategy (in terms of task completion time). |
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| − | '''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | ==Wednesday 1st April 2009 - Simulator staff - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00== |
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#* None |
#* None |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* Technical meeting with the simulator staff |
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'''''Reading material''''' |
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| − | ==Tuesday 7th April 2009 - Everybody - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 14:00 - 16:00== |
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| − | '''''Agenda''''' |
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| − | # '''Presentation''' |
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| − | #* TBA |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* The simulator |
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| − | #** The Simulator Constitution |
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| − | #** ARGoS BT scripting discussion follow-up |
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| − | #** The BT exposed |
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| − | ==Wednesday 15th April 2009 - Meeting suspended== |
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| − | #* TBA |
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| − | ==Wednesday 22nd April 2009 - Manuele AND Internal Meeting - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00== |
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| − | #* A Reliable Distributed Algorithm for Group Size Estimation with Minimal Communication Requirements |
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| − | # '''Internal Meeting / Discussion''' |
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| − | #* The ARGoS Constitution |
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| − | In this talk I will present a method that lets individual robots in a group |
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| − | estimate the size of the group in a distributed manner. The process is |
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| − | loosely based on the signaling behavior of fireflies and |
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| − | crickets. Melhuish et al. first devised a method based on local robot signaling |
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| − | to estimate the group's size. Each robot emits a signal and can |
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| − | perceive the signals of neighboring robots in close |
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| − | proximity. Following the approach of Melhuish et al., our robots count the number of |
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| − | emitted signals over a suitably defined period of time. Experiments |
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| − | show that the estimates calculated with Melhuish et al. method display a great |
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| − | deal of noise. We modify their method so as to sensibly stabilize the |
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| − | output. We assess the quality of our method through extensive |
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| − | simulation-based experiments. |
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| − | ==Wednesday 29th April 2009 - Antal - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00 - POSTPONED == |
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| − | # '''Presentation''' |
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| − | #* TBA |
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| − | #* |
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| − | ==Thursday 7th May 2009 - Antal - Architecture dept. room, 2nd floor, 16H30/17H - XX:00 - POSTPONED== |
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| − | ==Wednesday 13th May 2009 - Antal - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00== |
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| − | #* Self-assembly: from modular self-reconfigurable robots to swarm-robotics |
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| − | ==Wednesday 3rd June 2009 - Ali - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00== |
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| − | #* Self-Organized Flocking in Robotics |
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| − | #* |
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| − | =Tentative Schedule for the following= |
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Revision as of 18:04, 12 May 2011
Purpose
- Community. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab
- Research. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.
- Admin. Lab administration.
Format
- Presentation & Discussion (30 - 50 mins)
- Work you have been doing
- Reading you have been doing in the context of your work
- Other reading on something you are passionate about
- Swarmanoid internal meeting (0 - 50 mins)
Try and make your session as involving as possible for everyone:
- Send round material to be read beforehand.
- Ask people before the meeting what aspects of your work / reading they would like to know about or discuss.
- Think about implications of what you are presenting for the research direction of the lab as a whole - methodologies, technologies etc.
Timing & Attendance
The weekly meetings take place on
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
- Presentation
- Manuele will rehearse the defense of his DEA thesis.
- Internal Meeting / Discussion
- None
Reading material
People who will be absent
