Minutes Converence Call, November 17

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Global Task:

• Each leader writes a paragraph on the progress before Sunday night.

Synchronize the experiments in each subtask so that people do comparable experiments

• Every group holds a private skype when necesarry
• Important thing is that experiments are comparable

Subtask 1: Morphogenesis

• Wenguo has improved his representation to include different connection rotations and heterogeneity
• Yao: done some experiments in its simulator; working with Ronny to integrate his findings.

Tasks:

• Michele: Before sunday evening, paragraph summarizing progress.
• Wenguo: Create mutation, crossover. He will send them to Christopher who will help make them good

Subtask2: Organism Control

• Until November 30 everyone can use their own simulator
• By December 15 the solution should be running in Robot3D
• We postpone the decision until December 15th, as we need to be able to compare them and for that they need to run in the same simulator
• Everyone needs to be careful that 2 weeks to port your code may be short, so you should look into porting it sooner.

Tasks:

• Juergen: Before sunday evening, paragraph summarizing progress.
  • Everyone: Send a short text (max 5 - 10 lines) on the progress you made

• Juergen has an implementation in his own simulator and will implement On-Line On-board evolution there first, and then move on to Robot3D
• Evert has an implementation in Wiibots and will first implement the inclusion of sensors there, and then move on to Robot3D
• Florian does not have his own simulator and will work in Robot3D immediately
• Yao has an implementation in his own simulator and will move toward Robot3D
• Ronny has an implementation in his own simulator

Subtask3: Internal Reward

• They will adapt an implementation of the QI to create a Static version of QI.

Tasks:

• Evert: Implement (he plan to do that before the week-end)
• There will be an internal discussion after the skype.
• Evert: Before sunday evening, paragraph summarizing progress.

Subtask 4: Simulator

• There are still some bugs that Lutz and Vojta are working on.
  • For instance the plugin threads are currently faulty
• The target platform for now will be Ubuntu 11.04.
  • Any bugs reported should be from this platform
• Report any bugs to Vojta
• We will organize a number of tutorials on using Robot3D
  • First tutorial will be somewhere next week.
  • Topics will include
    • Getting, Compiling and Running Robot3D
    • Where to write your controller code, and how to use it in the simulator
    • Some examples
• Libor and crew have created a component which measures how fast/slow the simulation is compared to real time
• Several scenarios have been conceptualized and will be implemented
• First results somewhere next week (Wednesday?)
• Libor will investigate whether a publication can be made on the simulator
  • The simulator may be a legacy of the project with desirable characteristics

Tasks:

• Berend: Before sunday evening, paragraph summarizing progress
• Berend: Confer with Anne and Vojta about bug-reporting and tracking!

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