Harmen Kroon

Version 2.3 by Harmen Kroon on 2022/04/04 17:33

Week 1

Getting to know the group and reading up on the field.
We decided as a group to work with MiRo and my task was to look into playing music/sound; which could be limited using mirocloud.
After the first classes I read the two papers (Neerincx et al., 2019) and (Han et al., 2016)

Week 2

Due to not having a Mirocloud account I was unable to explore the codebase. I did try to look up videos and information at https://www.miro-e.com/mirocloud.
Before the lecture I read the two papers (Peeters et al., 2016) and (Neerincx et al., to appear) in order to prepare for the guest lecture.
My task for this week included writing problem scenarios.

Week 3

Before the lecture I read the paper on team design patterns for moral decisions in hybrid intelligent systems (Neerincx et al., 2021)
I was tasked with making an ontology and decided to explore Typedb, relational software mentioned in the lecture.
For my first session in the robot lab I made a script that would move MiRo around in a circle and play some basic sounds.

Week 4

After the lecture I read the paper (Peer et al., 2017).
I finally finished the ontology with draw.io and not Typedb as it proofed to difficult to install for the timeframe and utility in this project. I also programmed a lot of functionality for our demo. We wanted to show off our design for grabbing attention when someone deviates from the path, for whenever MiRo acts excited and for how MiRo follows a path along a hallway with turns.
I recorded this behaviour and shared it with the team as we demo this in week 5.

Week 5

This week there were presentation and my group presented on monday. During both days I tried to be as attentive as possible in order to be able to ask relevant questions and seek inspiration from the other groups. I also took notes whenever tips, advise or remarks were given that are relevant to our project.
I felt that we could improve on our ontology by adding an additional interaction ontology which I took as a task upon myself. Other tasks that I got included research on uses of robot dogs and other robot animals in care facilities, and preparing for our next robot lab session.
In the lab session I tried to make MiRo recognise coloured garments, but the simulator was quite a bit buggy which delayed and eventually make us dismiss this idea.

Week 6

Unfortunately I was not feeling well in the weekend and the beginning of the week and my attendance and performance was therefore lacking as well.
Luckily I could ask my team members about what I missed during the lecture and then supplement my notes with the lecture slides and the reading.
During our wednesday morning lab session I was feeling better and we were able to set up a pilot experiment. Since I missed some of our group discussion I was a bit confused with the organisation around the experiment as it seemed to me that a lot of parts were well prepared but as a whole there lacked some cohesion. So I tried to fill in the gaps and help set up the pilot and also make extensive notes on what we should improve on before the real experiment.