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 (15 - 30 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
- Discussion (15 - 30 mins)
- Administration (0 - 30 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.
Wednesday 19th October - 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
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?
Adminstration Issues
- Coffee machine
- The new e-pucks
- Simulators and swarm-bot interfaces
People who will be absent
Elio, Rodi, Christos
We are not going to pay the cakes ;-)
Wednesday 2nd November - Rehan
Presentation / Discussion Topics
Adminstration Issues
People who will be absent
Elio
Wednesday 9th November - Frederico
Presentation / Discussion Topics
Adminstration Issues
People who will be absent
N/A
Wednesday 16th November - Elio
Presentation / Discussion Topics
Adminstration Issues
People who will be absent
N/A
Wednesday 23rd November - Christos
Presentation / Discussion Topics
Adminstration Issues
People who will be absent
Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)
Wednesday 23rd November - Shervin
Presentation / Discussion Topics
Adminstration Issues
People who will be absent
Ciro (holiday --> no talk!!!)
