64-850-S Integrated Seminar Intelligent Robotics

Room:	F-326
Time:	Thursday, 12:15 - 13:45
Organizer:	Michael Görner, Norman Hendrich

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Project

The integrated seminar is being offered as part of the 64-850-P1 Masterproject Intelligent Robotics.

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Topic proposals

We do provide a set of papers as initial pointers, but you can also 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]

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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
• Final slides must be submitted at least 24 hours before the presentations is to be held - as PDF.
• A draft of your presentation must be submitted 4 days before the presentation is scheduled.
• A draft of the contents of your presentation must be discussed two weeks before the presentation during the project attendance time
• 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.

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

If the paper does not include a comparison with other approaches or a discussion of the results, you can mention this in your presentation. Still, you are required to compare and contrast with other people's approaches and results.

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

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Written report

As part of the integrated seminar, you are 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 7 days before the final deadline (2022-02-21) at the latest.
• Final submission of the paper (camera ready) before the end of February.
• 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 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