Previous MEETROBOT meetings

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?

Administration Issues

• Coffee machine
• New documents on the Wiki.
• Next week...
• The new e-pucks
• Simulators and swarm-bot interfaces

People who will be absent

Elio, Rodi, Christos

Results

Download Presentation(PDF)

• General: The topics on the agenda, which are of general interest are moved to the beginning of the meeting, so that non-robotics people can attend at a fixed hour each week.
• Coffee machine:
  • Marco buys a new one when he comes across a good, new coffee machine (suggestions are very welcome)
  • Mauro is in charge of sending the current, broken machine to someone who can repair it.
• New Wiki-pages:
  • IRIDIA Technical reports - how to publish technical reports at IRIDIA + LaTeX styles etc.
  • Access to Digital Libraries
  • When something happens to the s-bots (French, pdf) - A document list common hardware problems and their solutions. Can also be found in the SBOT FAQ and the SBOT STATUS sections.
• Wiki security: For certain parts of the Wiki it would be convenient to have access control, so that only people from IRIDIA can access those pages. Anders will look into that.
• E-pucks: All the available info on the e-pucks will be put on the Wiki.
• Sbot/simulator interfaces: Rehan is going to create a repository for the common sbot interface and it is going to be implemented in TwoDee.
• OMiss simulator: Rehan is going to create a Wiki page on checking out and compiling OMiss (the new simulator based on ODE).

Wednesday 19th October 2005 - 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