Last week's accomplishments

Perturbed Data Paper

• [18 hr, Closer to done 14 hr] Finish all remaining issues and prepare the draft for submission.
  • Picked a working title
  • Added in journal styles
  • Create participant and trial tables + source code
  • Add syntax highlighting lib
  • Got all exploratory code working with GATK 0.1.2
  • Found to bugs in GATK and made releases 0.1.1 and 0.1.2

Inverted Pendulum Paper

• [6 hr, Done 6.5 hr] Try out scaling methods and see if convergence improves.
  • I ended up scaling the parameters to be closer to 0.5 and the optimizer now converges nicely, in only ~13 iterations even for long measurement times.

Non-objectives

• [4.3 hr] Worked with Sabrina on the NAO and came to the conclusion that the methods needed to disable the collision protection were no longer available in the new version 2 of the API.
• [0.5 hr] Searched for more reviewers for the Yeadon paper.

Last week's issues

I spent a ton of time applying for a job, cover letter, resume updates, website updates, and five interviews. I took Friday off to deal with that.

Yeadon Paper

• Can't find reviewers for the Yeadon paper, see https://github.com/chrisdembia/python-yeadon-paper/issues/23. F1000Research requests that you provide names for potential reviewers and we've been through close to 20 with only 1 person agreeing to do the review.

Gait Control Identification

• [5 hr] Do some thinking and reasoning about the potential discontinuities in the scheduled gain controller.
  • I didn't spend any time on this.

This week's objectives

Other

• [3 hr] Fill out termination forms and do whatever I need to do to end my position.
• [1 hr] Check in with Ton about contract and get that finished up.
• [1 hr] Clear out books in office to pack this weekend.
• [2 hr] Finish bicycle paper review for VSD.

Perturbed Data Paper

• [18 hr] Continue knocking off issues and submit for review.

Inverted Pendulum Paper

• [5 hr] Write code for the direct identification.
• [5 hr] Write code for the shooting indirect identification.

Gait Control Identification

• [5 hr] Do some thinking and reasoning about the potential discontinuities in the scheduled gain controller.