Workshop on the Future of Robotics Research: Robust Intelligence

在过去的十年中，机器人系统已经从独立的单元发展到更复杂的系统，这些系统显示出与人类和/或环境交互的某些能力。这一发展与最近国家科学基金会(NSF)的信息和智能系统司(IIS)重组为集群研究环境相结合，促使了组织这次研讨会的必要性，以讨论和探索集群研究环境中机器人的未来研究趋势。具体地说，拟议的研讨会旨在通过自上而下和自下而上的方法来解决这个问题：a)自上而下的方法：鉴于IIS/机器人计划将与其他IIS计划聚集在一起，进入关于稳健智能的集群研究，机器人研究人员应该关注哪些潜在的创新研究领域，以使未来的机器人系统表现出更好的机动性、智能性、适应性、和自主性？b)自下而上的方法：鉴于许多机器人研究人员有他们自己的研究领域，不符合集群研究稳健智能的主题，这些研究人员应该探索什么，以便为未来的IIS比赛提出更有针对性的项目？智力优势。这个研讨会将聚集机器人社区的研究人员，包括目前由NSF/IIS支持的首席研究员(PI)，探索这个集群中的创新机器人研究领域-研究稳健智能主题。研究人员将探索将机器人学、计算机视觉、人工智能和其他适当的技术领域协同集成到未来的机器人系统中的好处，以实现对动态和变化的环境做出反应的智能和灵活性。研讨会将对机器人社区产生重大和更广泛的影响。通过研讨会，研究人员将拓宽他们对未来研究的看法，以促进总体上的稳健智能，特别是机器人科学和技术。传统的单一PI研究领域，如动力学、运动学、控制、运动规划、执行器等，将让位于感知和认知、学习和智能等一系列技术。有了这一新的愿景，研究人员将在提出创新的机器人研究方面有更好的想法，以调查将为设计和开发表现出更好的自主性、机动性和智能性的未来机器人系统提供答案的方法和技术。

In the past decade, robotic systems have moved from stand-alone units to more complicatedsystems that exhibit certain capabilities of interactions with human beings and/orenvironments. This development coupling with the recent re-organization of the Informationand Intelligent Systems Division (IIS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) into acluster-research environment has prompted the necessity of organizing this workshop todiscuss and explore the future research trends of robotics in a cluster-research environment.Specifically, the proposed workshop aims to address this problem with top-down and bottomupapproaches:A) Top-down approach: Given that the IIS/Robotics program will be clustered with otherIIS programs into cluster-research on Robust Intelligence, what are the potentialinnovative research areas that robotics researchers should look into so that futurerobotic systems will exhibit better mobility, intelligence, adaptation, and autonomy?B) Bottom-up approach: Given that many robotics researchers have their individualresearch areas that do not fit into this cluster-research Robust Intelligence theme, whatshould these researchers explore in order to propose more pertinent projects for futureIIS competitions?Intellectual Merits. This workshop will bring together researchers in the roboticscommunity, including the principal investigators (PIs) currently supported by the NSF/IIS, toexplore innovative robotics research areas in this cluster-research Robust Intelligence theme.Researchers will explore the benefits of synergistic integration of robotics, computer vision,artificial intelligence, and other appropriate technical areas into future robotic systems toachieve intelligence and flexibility in reaction to dynamic and changing environments.Broader Impacts. The workshop will have significant and broader impacts on the roboticscommunity. Through the workshop, researchers will broaden their views of future researchfor advancing Robust Intelligence in general, and robotic science and technologies inparticular. Traditional single-PI-focused research areas such as dynamics, kinematics,control, motion planning, actuators, etc. will give way to a cluster of technologies inperception and cognition, and learning and intelligence. Equipped with this new vision,researchers will have better ideas in proposing innovative robotics research to investigatemethodologies and technologies that will provide answers to design and develop futurerobotic systems that exhibit better autonomy, mobility, and intelligence.