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 7th November 2007 - Alex+Alvaro
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- We will present two different works:
- Infrared Communication on the Epucks : We have developed a library that takes care of the proximity sensors and uses them as a communication system. Local communication is up to 33B/sec getting the distance and direction of the source as well. A proof of concept (Now you do what they told you) will be shown during the meeting.
- Sharing knowledge to stay on the path : We have some simulations dealing with odometry errors to find nest and prey in a closed arena. Robots communicate between them to reduce dead-reckoning error. Here we present a first attempt to accomplish the task. Results show the importance of social learning with local communication without the need of a global knowledge.
Reading material
People who will be absent
Friday 23th November 2007 - Post-Swarmanoid Review Meeting discussion
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Swarms of hand-bots: Brainstorming about a swarm based task. The proposals will be added to the Swarmanoid Wiki pages.
Reading material
People who will be absent
Thursday 6th December 2007 - Christos
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 16th January 2008 - Marco
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 30th January 2008 - Takashi
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
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Wednesday 27th February 2008 - Alex
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 12th March 2008 - Rehan
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 26th March 2008 - Carlo
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 9th April 2008 - Xavier
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
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Wednesday 23th April 2008 - Giovanni
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
Reading material
People who will be absent
