PhDSupervision:Carlo Pinciroli

General information

Personal

Name: Carlo Pinciroli
Birthdate: 24/05/1980
Belgian mobile phone: +32 487 558922
Italian mobile phone: +39 347 6210713
Belgian home address: rue Isidore Verheyden 5, 1050 Ixelles (BE)
Italian home address: via Merini 7, 21100 Varese (IT)

ULB-related

PhD started: October 1st, 2006
Matricule ULB: 000252784
Office phone: +32 0 2650 2730

Projects

ASCENS project: since October 1st, 2010

SWARMANOID project: October 1st, 2006 - September 30th, 2010

Work Schedule

Period 30/4 - 8/6

ASCENS

• Berlin meeting
  • Preparation (discussions, slides) (2 days)
  • Actual meeting (3 days)
• Development of simulated version of robotics scenario
  • Status: 20% done, worked 2 days

ARGoS journal paper

• Finished two more versions of the paper, last one under review by Marco and Mauro (2 weeks)

SICE paper

• Total time worked: 10 days
  • Current status: rewritten 70% of the paper, starting from copy-pasted version
  • By Monday 18th: readable draft finished

ARGoS Maintenance

• Adding Dhananjay's robot for his project with Navneet (1 day)
• Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 days)
• Further documentation (2 days)
• Fixing cluster-related issues (4 days)

Swarm Intelligence Course

• Correction and grading of final projects (2 days)

Students

• MA1 project
  • Exam (1 day)
• Master
  • Davide Vichi (1 week)

Period 26/3 - 27/4

ARGoS journal paper

• Total time worked: 1 week
  • Rewritten Section 4.1 (2 days)
  • Redone validation plots (3 days)
  • Other fixes (2 days)
• Status: everything written, section 4.2 to fix, images to be distributed better in the paper
• Ready: May 2nd, 2012
• Main reason for delays: high priority tasks on other activities listed below

SICE paper

• Total time worked: 4 days
• Status: first draft ready and discussed with Rehan
  • Heavily based on copy-paste from previous papers
• Next draft ready: Friday May 11th
  • Complete rewriting, no (or marginal) copy-paste-based content

ARGoS Maintenance

• Helping Navneet
  • Introduction to ARGoS (1 day)
  • Fixing issues with ARGoS for Swarm Intelligence course (1 day)
• Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 day)
• Interactions with external ARGoS users (3 days)
• Documentation (1 day)

Swarm Intelligence Course

• Class
  • Class itself (8 hours)
  • Preparing material such as presentations and ARGoS extra packages (2 days)
• Final project proposal
  • Discussions (2 days)
  • Drafting the final project proposal (2 days)

Support for Students

• MA1 project
  • Thibaut Roskam (2 days)
  • Harold Waterkeyn (1 day)
• Master
  • Davide Vichi (4 days)

Week 19/3/2012 - 23/3/2012

ARGoS maintenance

• Fixing cluster issues with ARGoS
  • Cluster automatically deletes files in /tmp
  • New cluster package prevent ARGoS from working

ARGoS journal paper

• Prepare new draft
  • Including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
  • Paper draft finished by: Tuesday, April 3rd

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

• Meeting with Rehan
  • TOC and flow agreed
  • Preliminary, raw draft ready by Tuesday 27th March

Week 12/3/2012 - 16/3/2012

• Preparation of the ASCENS general meeting
• Attending the ASCENS general meeting

Week 5/3/2012 - 9/3/2012

Meeting with Marco on Monday, March 5

• ARGoS paper: finish draft as written below
• SICE paper
  • Focus on group formation by eye-bots and foot-bots
  • Port code and results to ARGoS2 (1 week)
  • Write paper starting from TOC of Rehan, Mauro and Marco (3 weeks?)
• Requisites for PhD Thesis
  • ARGoS and SICE journal papers submitted
  • Well written and complete ARGoS user manual (1 month)

ARGoS journal paper

• Prepare new draft
  • Finish images (1 day) [DONE]
  • Meet on Monday with Mauro and Gio to include Gio's experiment for validation [DONE]
    • Agreed on including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
    • Time expected to fix the paper: 10 days

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

• Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract [DONE]

ASCENS project

• Prepare presentation about ARGoS integration with other ASCENS tools (1.5 days)
  • http://www.ascens-ist.eu/wiki/index.php/SDE_and_tool_integration

Week 27/2/2012 - 2/3/2012

ARGoS journal paper

• Prepare new draft by 2/3/2012
  • Write example of robot composition in Section 3 to show flexibility [DONE]
    • Comparison between components of foot-bot and eye-bot: what is shared, what is not [DONE]
    • Make images [50% DONE]
  • Fix Section 4.2.2 with Eliseo's corrections [DONE]

Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE

• Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract

ASCENS project [DONE]

• Fill up information about tool planning (WP6)
  • http://www.ascens-ist.eu/wiki/index.php/SDE_and_tool_integration
  • Deadline: March 1st, 2012