Teknologiseminar

From Robin

Meeting structure

Place: ROBIN pause area, 4th floor Ole-Johan Dahls hus / gather town

12:00-12:15 Brief exchange of recent news, plans, updates, etc.

~12:20-12:40 Presentation on: Technology / Own Research / Journal review (see guidelines), time excludes discussion

Whatever content you present, remember that some of those attending have no advance knowledge about your project or work so introduce it in the beginning and stay focused on the main issues/challenges etc. Thus, make your presentation simple and understandable for as many as possible.

Dates and subjects - Autumn 2023 – Thursdays 12:00-12:45

5-20 min housekeeping/updates + 20 min talk

When	What	Who
10.08	Robotics at NTNU, Ålesund	Assoc. Prof. Di Wu [1]
17.08	Introuction to Ege [2]	Ege de Bruin
24.08
31.08		Emma Stensby Norstein
07.09
14.09
21.09
28.09
05.10
12.10
19.10
26.10
02.11
09.11
16.11
23.11
30.11
07.12
14.12

Overview of earlier seminars

Examples of interesting topics for technology introduction

Feel free to add topics to the wishlist!

• Robotics
  • Reinforcement learning for robotics
  • SLAM
  • embodied cognition
  • Swarm

• Neural networks
  • Recursive NNs and LSTMs
  • NEAT / HyperNEAT
  • Deep NNs

• Evolutionary algorithms and other types of optimization
  • Performance comparison of EAs (statistical tests)
  • Differential evolution
  • Diversity preservation methods
  • Novelty search, MAP-Elites and variants
  • Bayesian optimization

• Tools
  • SLURM
  • R
  • Python as alternative to R, incl. matplotlib
  • ROS
  • Deep learning frameworks and practice
  • Unity ML agents