Sign off?

Goes without saying I passed the viva. It's weird having people constantly assume you're super-happy about something, when really you're just relieved. Anyway I'm off travelling the Antipodes for a few months now; although I'm still occasionally plagued by that one dream where I haven't submitted yet, and I'm late, and OH GOD HAVE I EVEN WRITTEN MY THESIS? WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Maybe I should talk to someone. In the absence of a counsellor, I've got another outlet for my brain over at http://travellingmiserablist.weebly.com/. If you like.

Submit!!

Well that's that. Until my viva, anyway.

Eek

So much typing...

Doing corrections day in day out is pretty demoralising... I'm always torn between having noise in the background or seeing if I can concentrate without any. I tend to land in column A. Well in any case it needs doing, and the upside is I've read a decent number of recent papers that are pretty interesting, and one that I can't believe got published. It's a bit surreal seeing a publication that purposely ignores the work of your colleagues (and me too I guess, but I don't imagine I'm very sought-after).

Anyway this paper... let's call it "On decentralized coordination for spatial task allocation and scheduling in heterogeneous teams" because that's its name, is noticeably lacking in any mention of max-sum or its ilk. Very odd given its ubiquity.

Here's one last random thing. Threw these together to back up my literature review: they're examples of belief-data overlaid on spatial maps. It's the kind of thing you can create from crowd reports of building damage and the like, and shows nicely how you could use it to make path plans for a UAV to follow in those cases. There you go.

Belief maps, in various forms

Nearly done

Home stretch...

Updated my website recently to add my publications (two accepted... phew) and I'm a few corrections away from finishing—which is surreal. I think as a treat I'll start writing out my acknowledgements; something I'm taking quite seriously. Acknowledgements sections can be an absolute joy when they're not generic "Ooh I'm ever so grateful to ___ for being nice/reliable/trustworthy/there for me" statements in unending lists. I'd like something more personal than that.

More like this

Well here goes nothing. Oh and if anyone has any advice on how to make this image below more clear, do write in on a postcard.

Quick one

Just a quicky to say I've added a couple of download links to my personal site. Upcoming paper and transfer thesis. Got another paper under review at the mo.

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cabb1g08/