AIRWiki

Welcome to AIRWiki! This is the wiki supporting AIRLab, the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano, the Technical University of Milan (Italy).

AIRWiki was born as a tool for teachers, researchers and students to share information about projects in an easy way. However, it quickly evolved into a display of the activities of AIRLab too: in this wiki, you will find information about what we work on.

About AIRLab

Research areas

The activities at AIRLab are organized in the areas mentioned here below. Not all the researchers active in the areas have decided to use AIRWiki to support their activities, so you will find from the links only some of the activities held at AIRLab, such as descriptions of ongoing and past projects, project proposals and all sorts of other info related to the activities in the area.

• Affective Computing
• Agents - Multiagent Systems - Agencies
• BioSignal Analysis
• Computational Intelligence and Games
• Computer Vision and Image Analysis
• E-Science
• Machine Learning
• Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Social Software and Semantic Web

Here is a promo movie listing the activities at AIRLab in 2009.

AIRLab Sites

AIRLab is physically located on different sites, each with different access rules. You can find out here how to get there and access them.

Personnel

This page lists all the people working in AIRLab, sorted by category. Personal pages can be reached from there.

Courses

Several courses are related to AIRLab activities. Here are their descriptions. From 2010-2011 a new organization of courses for master thesis has been devised, and two suggested tracks have been dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Vision among the ones proposed for Computer Engineering.

Media coverage

Many activities at AIRLab are covered by media as soon as they attract interest. You may find here some links to past articles on newspapers and magazines.

Working in the AIRLab

Project Proposals

Are you interested in working on an AIRLab project? Many proposals of projects (course or thesis) for students are currently available at the Project Proposals page.

Equipment

Robots, sensors, tools, and equipment in general are available in the different AIRLab sites. You can find here what is available, where, and how to obtain access to it.

AIRLab survival guide

Go to the AIRLab survival guide page to find all the information (bureaucracy, how to write a thesis, rules, and more ...) you want to know and you dare not to ask for (or you dare to ask for, but prefer to get right now).

Safety

All people working in the AIRLab are required to know (and comply with) the safety norms and the rules of the lab.

About this wiki

How can I contribute?

If you are a registered user, your contribution is very welcome! AIRWiki is a collaborative effort. If you have information you want to share (description of what you do, links to useful sources of information, HOWTOs, and so on) just publish them on AIRWiki by creating new pages and/or modifying existing ones. It's easy and - dare we say it? - fun!

As a guideline, consider putting on AIRWiki everything you would have liked to find there... instead of being forced to find out the hard way. And, in particular, everything that future students who will build upon your own work would like to find. At Projects - HOWTO you can find instructions and guidelines about how to set up a page for the project you work on and how to add new information to it.

Layers

AIRWiki is composed of two layers:

• a public layer, readable by everyone on the Internet and modifiable by AIRWiki's registered users;
• a private layer, reserved to the registered users (who can read and edit its contents): this includes the discussion pages associated to each public page.

The public layer of AIRWiki is relatively stable. The private layer -and especially the discussion pages it includes- are used by the people working on AIRLab's projects as a repository of all the information related to such projects. Eventually, much of the information in the private layer will be suitably formatted and moved to the public layer. For more information, see the layers page.

Wow, this is a semantic wiki! What does that mean?

This wiki is using the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) extension, that helps to organize, search and browse the wiki's content. To know how data are organized in this semantic wiki, see the AIRWiki Ontology page.

Refer to the SMW tutorial tutorial for information about how SMW is used by AIRWiki and how you can use the tools provided by SMW.