CPATH CB: Building Community via Robotics Innovations Competition and Conference

CPATH CB：通过机器人创新竞赛和会议建立社区

• 批准号: 0722218
• 负责人: Michael Gennert
• 金额: $ 35.98万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-15 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0722218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPATH; CB; Building; Community; via

This CPATH CB project builds an intercollegiate and multi-disciplinary community of faculty promoting the education of entrepreneurially-oriented robotics engineering students through engagement in a Robotics Innovations Competition and Conference.This project will involve several community-building phases featuring workshops that will architect the competition, prepare the resource materials, provide a forum for participating university faculty and students and conclude with the first regional competition and conference. The Robotics Innovations Competition and Conference will challenge students to design and build robots to perform useful and novel tasks through a university-level competition. Entrants will be judged primarily on the extent to which they meet existing needs or create new markets, and secondarily with respect to design and analysis, implementation skill, and business plans. While robotics competitions exist at the K12 and university levels, these are notably based on games with a fixed set of rules. The competition planned in this project is different in that it emphasizes the engineering of solutions to open-ended real-world problems and invites creativity by an open competition based on the intellectual and commercial and/or humane aspects of the solutions. Students from all CISE disciplines would participate in the competition as well as in the preparatory workshops and concluding conference.The identification of new things for robots to do as the next logical step in the development of robotics requires actions to accelerate the process by inspiring more students to think about new applications. The successful robotics innovation and invention team will likely comprise a multidisciplinary group of engineering and computer scientists spanning all CISE disciplines. Therefore, the project team plans to build a community focused on the fusion of CISE disciplines in the context of a single topic, robotics. The proposed suite of activities planned for this project will serve as a testing ground and a springboard for the dissemination. The ultimate goals include not just a fundamental change in the packaging and delivery of multidisciplinary education centered on robotics, but also the creation of a pool of students with a demonstrably intense interest in a vocation that meets important national and economic needs.

CPATH CB项目建立了一个跨学院和多学科的教师社区，通过参与机器人创新竞赛和会议来促进面向创业的机器人工程专业学生的教育。该项目将包括几个社区建设阶段，包括设计竞赛的研讨会，准备资源材料，为参与的大学教职员工和学生提供论坛，并以第一次区域比赛和会议结束。机器人创新大赛和会议将挑战学生设计和制造机器人，通过大学级别的比赛执行有用的和新颖的任务。参赛者将主要根据他们满足现有需求或创造新市场的程度进行评判，其次是设计和分析、实施技能和商业计划。虽然机器人竞赛存在于K12和大学层面，但这些竞赛显然是基于一套固定规则的游戏。这个项目中计划的竞赛不同之处在于，它强调对开放式现实世界问题的解决方案的工程设计，并通过基于解决方案的智力和商业和/或人文方面的公开竞赛来吸引创造力。来自CISE所有学科的学生将参加比赛以及预备工作坊和总结会议。确定机器人要做的新事情，作为机器人发展的下一个合乎逻辑的步骤，需要采取行动，通过激发更多学生思考新的应用来加快这一过程。成功的机器人创新和发明团队可能包括一个由跨越所有CESE学科的工程和计算机科学家组成的多学科小组。因此，项目团队计划建立一个社区，专注于在机器人这一单一主题的背景下融合CESE学科。为该项目计划的拟议一系列活动将作为传播的试验场和跳板。最终目标不仅包括从根本上改变以机器人为中心的多学科教育的包装和教学，还包括培养一批对满足国家和经济重要需求的职业具有明显浓厚兴趣的学生。