PhDSupervision:Carlo Pinciroli
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General information
Personal
Name: Carlo Pinciroli
Birthdate: 24/05/1980
Belgian mobile phone: +32 487 558922
Italian mobile phone: +39 347 6210713
Belgian home address: rue Isidore Verheyden 5, 1050 Ixelles (BE)
Italian home address: via Merini 7, 21100 Varese (IT)
PhD started: October 1st, 2006
Matricule ULB: 000252784
Office phone: +32 0 2650 2730
Projects
ASCENS project: since October 1st, 2010
SWARMANOID project: October 1st, 2006 - September 30th, 2010
Work Schedule
Period 26/3 - 27/4
ARGoS journal paper
- Total time worked: 1 week
- Rewritten Section 4.1 (2 days)
- Redone validation plots (3 days)
- Other fixes (2 days)
- Status: everything written, section 4.2 to fix, images to be distributed better in the paper
- Ready: May 2nd, 2012
- Main reason for delays: high priority tasks on other activities listed below
SICE paper
- Total time worked: 4 days
- Status: first draft ready and discussed with Rehan
- Heavily based on copy-paste from previous papers
- Next draft ready: Friday May 11th
- Complete rewriting, no (or marginal) copy-paste-based content
ARGoS Maintenance
- Helping Navneet
- Introduction to ARGoS (1 day)
- Fixing issues with ARGoS for Swarm Intelligence course (1 day)
- Interactions with Michael Allwright (PhD student at Paderborn) (1 day)
- Interactions with external ARGoS users (3 days)
- Documentation (1 day)
Swarm Intelligence Course
- Class
- Class itself (8 hours)
- Preparing material such as presentations and ARGoS extra packages (2 days)
- Final project proposal
- Discussions (2 days)
- Drafting the final project proposal (2 days)
Support for Students
- MA1 project
- Thibaut Roskam (2 days)
- Harold Waterkeyn (1 day)
- Master
- Davide Vichi (4 days)
Week 19/3/2012 - 23/3/2012
ARGoS maintenance
- Fixing cluster issues with ARGoS
- Cluster automatically deletes files in /tmp
- New cluster package prevent ARGoS from working
ARGoS journal paper
- Prepare new draft
- Including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
- Paper draft finished by: Tuesday, April 3rd
Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE
- Meeting with Rehan
- TOC and flow agreed
- Preliminary, raw draft ready by Tuesday 27th March
Week 12/3/2012 - 16/3/2012
- Preparation of the ASCENS general meeting
- Attending the ASCENS general meeting
Week 5/3/2012 - 9/3/2012
Meeting with Marco on Monday, March 5
- ARGoS paper: finish draft as written below
- SICE paper
- Focus on group formation by eye-bots and foot-bots
- Port code and results to ARGoS2 (1 week)
- Write paper starting from TOC of Rehan, Mauro and Marco (3 weeks?)
- Requisites for PhD Thesis
- ARGoS and SICE journal papers submitted
- Well written and complete ARGoS user manual (1 month)
ARGoS journal paper
- Prepare new draft
- Finish images (1 day) [DONE]
- Meet on Monday with Mauro and Gio to include Gio's experiment for validation [DONE]
- Agreed on including validation aspects of Gio's paper on foraging partitioning
- Time expected to fix the paper: 10 days
Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE
- Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract [DONE]
ASCENS project
- Prepare presentation about ARGoS integration with other ASCENS tools (1.5 days)
Week 27/2/2012 - 2/3/2012
ARGoS journal paper
- Prepare new draft by 2/3/2012
- Write example of robot composition in Section 3 to show flexibility [DONE]
- Comparison between components of foot-bot and eye-bot: what is shared, what is not [DONE]
- Make images [50% DONE]
- Fix Section 4.2.2 with Eliseo's corrections [DONE]
- Write example of robot composition in Section 3 to show flexibility [DONE]
Special issue of "Swarm" in the journal of SICE
- Agree with Marco and Mauro for a title and an abstract
ASCENS project [DONE]
- Fill up information about tool planning (WP6)
- http://www.ascens-ist.eu/wiki/index.php/SDE_and_tool_integration
- Deadline: March 1st, 2012
