64-850-S Integrated Seminar Intelligent Robotics
| Room: | F-326 (TAMS Robot Lab) |
| Time: | Thursday, 12:15 - 13:45 |
| Organizer: | Michael Görner, Norman Hendrich |
Project
The integrated seminar (2SWS) is part of the 64-850-P1 Masterproject Intelligent Robotics. As will all seminars, the learning goal is twofold: to read and understand one (or a few) papers about your selected topic, and to learn how to prepare and give a scientific talk about that topic. As you will also listen to several talks by your fellow students, you will quickly get an overview of different research fields in robotics and AI.Topic proposals
We will suggest a set of topics and papers as initial pointers, but you are very welcome to propose your own papers (as long as they were not discussed in depth in other courses you participated in before).
Topics include the following broad categories:
- Localization and Path Planning
- Motion Planning
- Manipulation and Grasping
- Image Processing for Object Recognition
- Object reconstruction
- Sound Localization and Recognition
- Machine learning (in robotics)
- Robot Coordination (e.g. action planning and state machines)
- Force Control
- Optimal Control
- Human Robot Interaction
- Physics simulation in robotics
- Gesture recognition
- [Your proposals here]
Presentation
In the following paragraphs, you'll find hints for and requirements of the presentations to be held in the seminar.
Requirements
- Each presentation is to be given by a single person
- Presentation language is English
- min. 40 minutes of time: 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion
As many students in previous years submitted late, we have pretty strict submission rules: - An early draft of the contents of your presentation must be discussed two weeks before the presentation during the project attendance time
- A full draft of your presentation must be submitted 4 days before the presentation is scheduled.
- Final slides must be submitted at least 24 hours before the presentations is to be held - as PDF.
- Please bring your own laptop for the presentation. If you cannot do so, talk to us and we will provide an alternative. The laptop has to be connected via HDMI.
- The presentation slides will be made available online (i.e., linked from this page).
Hints
- You should prepare roughly one slide per minute of presentation
- The presentation shall be practiced multiple times before presenting. Your audience will know whether you did or not.
The presentation shall include the following things:
- A title page with the title, your name and the date of presentation
- All slides should be numbered for easier reference in the following discussion
- Provide a visible structure of the talk
- An introduction to the topic, necessary definitions and maybe a short introduction to its history
- When presenting a paper: Title, author (including his employer) as well as time and place of publication
- A clear definition of the problem to be solved
- Presentation of the approach(es)
- Presentation of the results
- Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the selected approach and its results
- A short comparison with other approaches
- Use figures and images to illustrate the topics
- Use equations as necessary (but explain the used symbols)
- If possible, combine text and graphical material
- Don't use bullet-point lists only (like this one!)
- When using videos, include key frames in your slides (not just a blank slide)
Grading
The presentation will be graded according to:
- Amount and quality of technical information and precision of your explanations
- Comprehensibility of your presentation and its slides
- Liveliness of your presentation
- Quality of your answers during discussion
- Adherence to requirements listed above
Written report
Unless you present two independent topics during the seminar, you are also required to write a term paper on your seminar topic in the style of a scientific paper.
Requirements
- Create and submit the paper in time
- The paper must be written in Standard English (any variant is fine as long as the text is consistent)
- Use LaTex. The required style file can be found here.
- Submit a draft of your paper 14 days before the final deadline (2024-03-17) at the latest.
- Final submission of the paper (camera ready) before the end of March.
- The paper shall consist of 6 to 10 pages and must be self-contained.
Advice
- Use spell and grammar checking software to avoid obvious mistakes in submissions
- You may send the draft early - once its coarse structure has settled - to get feedback early
- Do not just rephrase the whole paper you focused on for submission. There is no sense in writing alternative versions of the same paper. Instead you may
- Review the broader research area
- Contrast multiple approaches
- Discuss your own work/experiments with an implementation, if feasible.
Grading
The paper will be graded according to the following criteria:
- Amount of contained information and precision of your explanations
- Readability and comprehensibility
- Adherence to requirements listed above
