http://www.dudek.org/blog Gregory Dudek's blog on robotics, science, computing and related topics Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:24:53 -0500 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:24:53 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss COREBlog 1.2.5.1 dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/188 The main reviewing periods for Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) and for the Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) are both done. RSS is not the the reviewers response phase to be followed by discussions and an Area Chairs meeting in LA at tweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/188 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:32:31 -0500 CRV and RSS reviewing completed. dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/187 This site was unavailable in part of Feb 2010 and some of early March. Although the server itself was running, the upstream DNS server was having problems. http://www.dudek.org/blog/187 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:58:21 -0500 System trouble in Febuary dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/186 On the weekend, I went with my old friend Robbie Drummond and his girlfriend Kat to the "Bodies" exhibit here in Montreal. hat exhibit includes, among other things, a plastic mold of some the human circulatory system and it's incredible branching strweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/186 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:58 -0500 Going to the moon with maple syrup dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/185 I was at Memorial University and the Institute for Ocean Technology in Newfoundland giving at talk. I saw their huge ice tank, sea gliders and some other ocean-going robots. http://www.dudek.org/blog/185 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:57:59 -0500 Visit to Memorial University dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/184 Well, the robot field trials I mention in my last report took place as planned. While we tested the robot in warm water and that was great, the schedule was grueling with long days and 3 or more simultaneous experiments taking place most of the time.weofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/184 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:49:08 -0500 Robot Field Trials report dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/183 We leave for our Sea Trials in just 36 hours or so. One more long day. The last week has been a wild ride and many software and hardware systems for our robots got a final checkout and some fine tuning. Of course, there was also a mad rush to includeweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/183 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:28:52 -0500 Smoke gets in your eyes ... argh!! dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/182 Air Canada now allows frequent flyers to track their annual activity. In 2009 is seems I flew 33 segments on Air Canada. That's sickening... No wonder I don't find flying that exciting any more! http://www.dudek.org/blog/182 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:37:41 -0500 I flew too much! dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/181 In late December I acted as a plenary speaker at the EVIC Robotics Summer School in Santiago Chile. The Summer School seemed good with a nice selection of talks and poster presentations. In particular I visited the lab of Javier Ruiz-del-Solar at theweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/181 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:26:38 -0500 Santiago, Chile and Robotics Summer School dudek@cim.mcgill.ca (Gregory B Dudek) http://www.dudek.org/blog/180 This post deals with Digi's Xbee modules, Zigbee firmware and with non-windows software I wrote for editing the Xbee parameters from the command line. The software xbee-gdxctu is written in Python, runs on OS X and Linux, and allows Xbee parameters to be queried and set. http://www.dudek.org/blog/180 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Xbee Znet and gps