Japan (JSPS) Postdoctoral Program: Application of a Real-Time Attentive Sensing Strategy to Mobile Robots

该奖项将提供补充支持，使加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的Matthew Barth博士能够与日本大阪大学的Saburo Tsuji博士进行为期10个月的合作研究。他们将把Barth博士的实时专注传感（RAS）策略应用于移动机器人，以加速机器人感知数据的处理。RAS的目的是克服机器人普遍存在的问题，即处理感官数据的速度往往慢于机器人必须完成其任务的速度。RAS首先在整个感官领域快速并行地处理简单的特征。然后，它“聚焦”，只对与任务相关的特征进行详细处理。Tsuji博士实验室开发的移动机器人功能将补充Barth博士在该处理技术方面的经验，并将促进该技术的验证。

This award will provide supplementary support to enable Dr. Matthew Barth of the University of California, Santa Barbara, to conduct collaborative research with Dr. Saburo Tsuji for ten months at Osaka University in Japan. They will apply Dr. Barth's Real-time Attentive Sensing (RAS) strategy for speeding up robotic sense-data processing to mobile robots. RAS is intended to overcome the common robotic problem in which the processing of sensory data is often slower than the speed with which the robot must accomplish its task. RAS first processes simple features rapidly and in parallel, all across the senory field. It then "zeroes in" to do detailed processing only on the features relevant to the task. The mobile robot capabilities developed in Dr. Tsuji's laboratory will complement Dr. Barth's experience with this processing technique and will facilitate the verification of the technique.