The Bot Which Spawned A Bachelor Thesis

Well. This bot model didn't actually spawn a bachelor thesis in itself, but it ignited the desire for a bachelor thesis which is aiming at solving a problem which occurred to us mainly because of this model.
After having worked with the real thing for years (a Jahrfünft as it is called in a somewhat awkward German mainly used by Luxembourgeois EU citizens), it was playing with this model for 10 minutes which showed us (me) that there is a kinematic phenomenon we never thought about.

Alas! A paper showing up on the horizon!

Indulge

Salmon.
Dark bread.
Californian rose wine.
Ginger tea.
Vanilla yoghurt.

hmmm... indulge myself.

Canada 2006 - Aug 04th Edmonton

After much travelling and much presentation preparation, both the sightseeing and business parts of this trip are slowly over... just returned from the presentation as described in University of Alberta / Department of Computing Science / Artificial Intelligence Seminar:

Surgical Robotics, Navigation, and Error
Philipp Stolka, Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Aug 4, 12:00PM, CSC 333

Lots of people, all eating pizza. Although some looked like falling asleep (I suspect some did), the audience - which probably had no previous surgical robotics-related exposure before - asked some good questions. More, and more interesting ones, than in some relevant conferences even.




Apart from this - some rain, some coldness, how good Dad told me to bring a jacket and a sweater, and EDM's slowly running out of sights.