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 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
- NONE
People who will be absent
Results
Download presentation (pdf ~40MB)
- For the real s-bots the batteries are going to be replaced.
- The common interface is ready. It currently works on the real s-bots and in the TwoDee simulator.
Wednesday 7th December - Movie
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Marco: I am currently flying from Lyon to Dublin
Wednesday 14th December - Shervin
Agenda
- Presentation / Discussion
- There's not too much that changed since my last talk.
- I will (very) shortly present the reimplemented version of my controller on twodee,
- talk about the experiments which I prepared and which I intend to run before xmas,
- introduce the idea for a new controller.
- If there's any interest I can show photos from Cuba....
- Robotics Group Admin
- The last meeting before Christmas (Dec 21st)
- MEETROBOT 2006
Reading material
People who will be absent
