NEST Project Mini Pretreat
May 18, 10:00 - 3:00
380 Soda

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~culler/nest

Updated Agenda

Welcome to the pre-project kickoff meeting on the DARPA Networked Embedded Systems Technology project. The goals of this meeting are

There will be a bit of homework to get prepared for the meeting.
 

Participants:

David Culler <culler@cs.berkeley.edu>
Jason Hill <jhill@cs.berkeley.edu>
Robert Szewczyk <szewczyk@cs.berkeley.edu>
Alec Woo <awoo@cs.berkeley.edu>
Eric Brewer <brewer@cs.berkeley.edu>
Mike Chen <mikechen@cs.berkeley.edu>
Robert von Behren <jrvb@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
Nikita Borisov <nikitab@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Umesh Shankar <ushankar@cs.berkeley.edu>
Shankar Sastry <sastry@robotics.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
Peter Ray <pray@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Ron Tal <rontal@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cedric Ma <cedricma@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Bruno Sinopoli <sinopoli@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Luca Schenato <lusche@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Judy Liebmann <judithl@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Jin Kim <jin@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu>
David Shim <hcshim@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Kris Pister <pister@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Sarah Bergbreiter <sbergbre@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Lance Doherty <ldoherty@bsac.berkeley.edu>
Mike Scott <mdscott@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Kevin Fall <kfall@intel.com>
Alan Mainwaring <alan.mainwaring@intel.com>
Hans Mulder <hans.mulder@intel.com>

Proposed Agenda:

10:00 - 11:00 In-depth Introduction (ALL)
11:00 - 11:30 Presentation of the Existing NEST Proposal (Culler)
11:30 - 12:00 Presentation of proposed Challenge Applications (Sastry)
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch + Discussion of how to organize project
1:00 - 2:00 Hands-on tutorial on programming TinyOS wireless sensors (Hill)
2:00 - 3:00 Discussion around key papers (Brewer)

Homework:

1. Everyone should come prepared with a 2-minute introduction to the group describing (i) your area of expertise, (ii) your most exciting technical accomplishment, (iii) what you hope to be doing on the project, (iv) what other projects you think you are working on.

2. Get the tools and source code necessary to program the sensors from: http://tinyos.millennium.berkeley.edu/Getting_Started.htm It should only take a couple of minutes to get up and running. Please follow the directions on the website and install the software on your laptop. Some of the final steps (like verifying the programming works) cannot be completed until you have the physical devices. Please complete as many steps as possible. This includes installing the javax.comm. libraries.

3. Read the three papers that will be discussed in the afternoon:

System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors, J. Hill, R. Szewcyk, A. Woo, D. Culler, S. Hollar, K. Pister, ASPLOS 2000 http://tinyos.millennium.berkeley.edu/papers/tos.pdf

Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann and Satish Kumar In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCOM '99), August 1999, Seattle, Washington. http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/estrin/papers/estrin-mobicom99.ps.gz

Multi-Agent Probabilistic Pursuit-Evasiion Games with Unmanned Ground and Aerial Vehicles, Vidal, Shakernia, Kim, Shim, and Sastry, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 2001 http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~hcshim/tra01.ps.gz

Copy of the NEST proposal

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~culler/nest/SLAP-proposal.doc