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 23rd November - Christos
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Communication - some brief overview, some definitions (this was supposed to have been discussed some months ago when nobody showed up to discuss a related paper I proposed, I guess this time with some "pressure" you will all be there and super-motivated and interested, what a wonderful world...
- I am going to talk on my work on the Evolution of Communication in cases where there is no fitness reward for signalling-reaction to the signal. What conditions seem to favour the evolution of communication?
- An idea for extention, an intro for my next talk, maybe?
- Robotics Group Admin
- Arena camera
Reading material
People who will be absent
Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)
Results
Download the presentation (pdf)
- No news on the arena camera
- Rehan and Anders are still working (hard) on the common s-bot interface.
Wednesday 30th November - Roderich
Agenda
- Urgent stuff
- MARCO: We need to briefly discuss the ongoing reparation of our s-bots
- Presentation / Discussion
- This talk is related to my visit to Japan. I will provide an overview about:
- reasons to go there
- how to get funding (JSPS programs)
- some robotics research labs
- my research and the environment
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Wednesday 7th December - Movie
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Marco
Wednesday 14th December - Shervin
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
