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
- Iridia Administration (0 - 15 mins)
- 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 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
- 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 2nd November - Rehan
Agenda
- IRIDIA Admin
- Coffee Machine
- New Wiki Pages
- Next week...
- Presentation / Discussion
- What is robotic pattern formation?
- Potential applications using the Swarm Bot robotic platform
- Discussion / feedback on my research direction
- Robotics Group Admin
- Sbot / Simulator programmatic interfaces
- Buying a computer+flatscreen for the robot room (or taking one that is not used)
- Any spare monitor for Rodi?
Reading Material
- There is no reading material for this weeks presentation
People who will be absent
Elio, Thomas
Wednesday 9th November - Federico
Agenda
- IRIDIA Admin
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
N/A
Wednesday 16th November - Elio
Agenda
- IRIDIA Admin
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Marco
Wednesday 23rd November - Christos
Agenda
- IRIDIA Admin
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Ciro (holiday --> no cake, but maybe a havana cigar...)
Wednesday 30th November - Shervin
Agenda
- IRIDIA Admin
- Presentation / Discussion
- Robotics Group Admin
Reading material
People who will be absent
Ciro (holiday --> no talk!!!)
