Robotics weekly meetings
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
- Robotics Group Administration (0 - 15 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 ALWAYS take place on
Unless:
- A given Wednesday 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.
Previous Meetings
See Minutes and agendas from previous meetings.
Wednesday 15th November 2006 - Shervin
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- The presentation is about the experiment I'm currently setting up on simulation. The experiment compares the chains with a new controller I call forcefield. I will shortly describe my new controller, and give a detailed description of the experimental setup and the results I expect. My goal for the discussion is mainly to get some feedback and criticism concerning the experiment.
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 6th December 2006 - Alexandre
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- The presentation will describe my current work on the use of virtual pheromones for path selection. The predictions of a mathematical model will be compared with results from simulated experiments. I will show that the group of robots is able to display a collective choice in favour of the shortest path, and that it can possibly balance the exploitation of these paths.
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 10th January 2006 - Rehan
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 17th January 2006 - Anders
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 31st January 2006 - Christos
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 14th February 2006 - Elio
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent Carlo
Wednesday 28th February 2006 - Carlo
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 14th March 2006 - Xavier
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 28th March 2006 Post doc #2
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
