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The weekly meetings take place on
 
The weekly meetings take place on
   
<center> '''Wednesdays at 16.00 (temporary time schedule)''' </center>
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<center> '''Tuesday at 16.00 (temporary time schedule)''' </center>
   
 
Unless:
 
Unless:
* A given Wednesday is a public holiday, or
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* A given Tuesday is a public holiday, or
 
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.
 
* Something very important (like a Ph.D. defense) is overlapping.
   
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==Previous Meetings==
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=Forthcoming Meetings=
   
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==Tuesday 17th May 2011 - Manuele ==
See [[Previous MEETROBOT2008 meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (2007-2008)]].
 
 
See [[Previous MEETROBOT meetings | Minutes and agendas from previous meetings (older)]].
 
 
 
==Wednesday 4th February 2009 - Internal Meeting - Room C2-223, 2nd floor==
 
   
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
'''''Agenda'''''
   
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
# '''Presentation'''
  +
#* Manuele will rehearse the defense of his DEA thesis.
#* None
 
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
#* Swarmanoid Project: Camera Segmentation Software
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
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==Wednesday 11th February 2009 - Giovanni - Room C2-223, 2nd floor==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Interference Reduction through Task Partitioning
 
The talk is about the use of task partitioning as a way to reduce
 
interference in a spatially constrained harvesting task. Interference
 
is one of the key problems in large cooperating groups. We present a
 
simple method to allocate individuals of a robotic swarm to a
 
partitioned task, and study how this task partition can increase system
 
performance by reducing sources of interference. The method is
 
experimentally studied, both in an environment with a constrained area
 
and an environment without the constraint.
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 18th February 2009 - Carlo - Meeting room in Architecture Dept.==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Heterogeneous Group Size Regulation (please edit)
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 25th February 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223, 2nd floor==
 
 
 
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==Wednesday 4th March 2009 - Meeting Suspended - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor==
 
 
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==Wednesday 11th March 2009 - Rehan - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor - Start at 16.30==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Morphogenesis (please edit)
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Thursday 19th March 2009 - Eliseo and Nithin - Paduart Room, 4th floor - Start at 16.30==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Phat-bot Assembly and Navigation
 
#* The behavioral toolkit
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* Swarmanoid Project: To be defined
 
'''''Abstract''''':
 
In this talk we will present the work we have been doing on the phat-bot
 
assembly and navigation. All the controllers were implemented with a new
 
architecture in mind, which made the modularity of the behaviors possible
 
in ARGoS. We call this architecture "Behavioral Toolkit" and we will present
 
it also during the talk.
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 25th March 2009 - Marco - Paduart Room, 4th floor - Start at 16.30==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Local social influence mechanisms for collective decision making: A swarm robotics experiment
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Abstract''''':
 
In human societies, groups are often perceived as superior
 
decision making entities than individuals. When an important decision
 
has to be made, groups are formed to decide on the issue. Examples
 
include referenda, elections, and juries. When individuals are part of a
 
decision making group, they are subject to social influences that can
 
affect their perception and/or their opinion on the issue. Our work is
 
inspired by this fact and we investigate whether local social influence
 
mechanisms can make a population of robots choose the best of two
 
competing alternatives.
 
 
In our experiment, a swarm of robots is faced with a binary decision
 
problem: go foraging to the left, or to the right; or push or pull a
 
family of objects, for example. Associated to each choice there is a
 
cost which is the time it takes for a group to perform the task. I will
 
show you preliminary results that suggest that simple local decision
 
rules can make an uninformed population (or even a negatively biased
 
one) choose the best strategy (in terms of task completion time).
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 1st April 2009 - Simulator staff - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
 
#* None
 
#* None
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* Technical meeting with the simulator staff
 
   
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
'''''Reading material'''''
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==Tuesday 7th April 2009 - Everybody - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 14:00 - 16:00==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* TBA
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* The simulator
 
#** The Simulator Constitution
 
#** ARGoS BT scripting discussion follow-up
 
#** The BT exposed
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 15th April 2009 - Meeting suspended==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* TBA
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 22nd April 2009 - Manuele AND Internal Meeting - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* A Reliable Distributed Algorithm for Group Size Estimation with Minimal Communication Requirements
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#* The ARGoS Constitution
 
 
'''''Abstract''''':
 
In this talk I will present a method that lets individual robots in a group
 
estimate the size of the group in a distributed manner. The process is
 
loosely based on the signaling behavior of fireflies and
 
crickets. Melhuish et al. first devised a method based on local robot signaling
 
to estimate the group's size. Each robot emits a signal and can
 
perceive the signals of neighboring robots in close
 
proximity. Following the approach of Melhuish et al., our robots count the number of
 
emitted signals over a suitably defined period of time. Experiments
 
show that the estimates calculated with Melhuish et al. method display a great
 
deal of noise. We modify their method so as to sensibly stabilize the
 
output. We assess the quality of our method through extensive
 
simulation-based experiments.
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
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==Wednesday 29th April 2009 - Antal - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00 - POSTPONED ==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* TBA
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Thursday 7th May 2009 - Antal - Architecture dept. room, 2nd floor, 16H30/17H - XX:00 - POSTPONED==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* TBA
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 13th May 2009 - Antal - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Self-assembly: from modular self-reconfigurable robots to swarm-robotics
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
==Wednesday 3rd June 2009 - Ali - Room C2-223 , 2nd floor, 15:00 - 17:00==
 
 
'''''Agenda'''''
 
 
# '''Presentation'''
 
#* Self-Organized Flocking in Robotics
 
# '''Internal Meeting / Discussion'''
 
#*
 
 
'''''Reading material'''''
 
 
'''''People who will be absent'''''
 
 
<br><br>
 
 
=Tentative Schedule for the following=
 

Revision as of 18:04, 12 May 2011

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

Tuesday at 16.00 (temporary time schedule)

Unless:

  • A given Tuesday 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.

Forthcoming Meetings

Tuesday 17th May 2011 - Manuele

Agenda

  1. Presentation
    • Manuele will rehearse the defense of his DEA thesis.
  2. Internal Meeting / Discussion
    • None

Reading material

People who will be absent