An NSF Workshop on Mathematics and Robotics

这位研究人员和他的同事们组织了一个研讨会，探索机器人技术中工程师、计算机科学家和数学家之间协同合作的机会。研讨会聚集了工程师、计算机科学家和数学家，讨论机器人研究需求的例子，寻找共同的主题，并探索植根于数学的新想法，以推动这一领域的发展。研讨会的一个主要成果是一份报告，总结了这项技术的现状，并列出了未来合作研究的机会。机器人学涉及机械机械手的设计、控制机械手所需的系统以及各种应用，如材料搬运、组装、极端环境下的探索、假肢和微创外科手术。对于他们的解决方案，机器人的问题在很大程度上依赖于工程学和计算机科学的技术和想法。越来越明显的是，在重大开放问题上的进展需要现代数学的更多参与。这次研讨会将工程师、计算机科学家和数学家结合在一起，共同探索机器人领域的需求和机会。研讨会报告预计将促进研究人员之间的新互动，以及对这类重要问题的新见解和新方法。

The investigator and his colleagues organize a workshop toexplore opportunities in robotics for synergistic collaborationsamong engineers, computer scientists, and mathematicians. Theworkshop brings together engineers, computer scientists, andmathematicians to discuss examples of research needs in robotics,to look for common themes, and to explore new ideas, rooted inmathematics, that could advance this area. A major product of theworkshop is a report that summarizes the present state of the artand that lays out future opportunities for collaborativeresearch. Robotics is concerned with the design of mechanicalmanipulators, the systems needed to control them, and variousapplications such as materials handling, assembly, exploration inextreme environments, prosthetics, and minimally invasivesurgery. For their solution, problems in robotics have drawnheavily on techniques and ideas from engineering and computerscience. It is becoming apparent that progress on significantopen problems requires greater involvement of modern mathematics.This workshop combines engineers, computer scientists, andmathematicians in a joint exploration of needs and opportunitiesin robotics. The workshop report is expected to stimulate bothnew interactions among researchers and new insights andapproaches to this important class of problems.