Robotics weekly meetings

Purpose

1. Community. Keep everyone updated as to what other work is going on in the lab
2. Research. Cross germination. Get feedback. Get help on problems. Get ideas.
3. Admin. Lab administration.

Format

1. 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
2. Swarmanoid internal meeting (0 - 50 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 take place on

Wednesdays at 16.00 (temporary time schedule)

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 (2007-2008).

See Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (older).

Wednesday 4th February 2009 - Internal Meeting - Room C2-223, 2nd floor

Agenda

1. Presentation
   • None
2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
   • Swarmanoid Project: Camera Segmentation Software

Reading material

People who will be absent

Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Giovanni and Arne - Room C2-223, 2nd floor

Agenda

1. Presentation
   • Interference Reduction through Task Partitioning
2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
   • Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

Reading material

People who will be absent

Wednesday 18th February 2009 - Rehan - Room might not be available

Agenda

1. Presentation
   • Morphogenesis (please edit)
2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
   • Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

Reading material

People who will be absent

Wednesday 25th February 2009 - Carlo - Room not defined

Agenda

1. Presentation
   • Group Formation (please edit)
2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
   • Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

Reading material

People who will be absent

Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor

Agenda

1. Presentation
   • The behavioral toolkit
   • PhatBot Navigation
   • Social Learning experiment (early feedback)
   • Future work and feedback
2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
   • Swarmanoid Project: To be defined

Reading material

People who will be absent