REU Site: MetroBotics: undergraduate robot research at an urban public college

摘要CNS 0851901REU网站：REU网站：MetroBotics：城市公共学院的本科生机器人研究PI：纽约大学布鲁克林学院的伊丽莎白·斯克拉尔该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公共法律111-5)资助的。该奖项为纽约大学布鲁克林学院一个专注于基于代理系统的本科生网站提供资金。在本学年的课程中，本科生在布鲁克林学院的代理实验室环境中进行与多代理和多机器人系统相关的动手实验。该项目由一个有本科生参与研究历史的教职员工团队领导。大纽约市地区的一个教职员工顾问委员会负责监督和协助纽约地区公立大学招生工作。该项目的目标是为无法参与传统夏季常驻研究项目的不同学生群体提供有意义的研究经验和职业发展机会。该项目的智力优势在于基于代理的系统的研究重点，这是一个当前有兴趣和重要的课题，也对本科生具有吸引力。经验丰富的领导团队正在为本科生提供研究环境和指导，这些环境和指导可能会导致影响机器人和多代理系统领域的新发现和新结果。该项目的更广泛影响包括为不同的本科生群体提供高质量的研究体验，包括来自社区学院的学生。参与研究的教职员工承诺将未被充分代表的少数族裔学生纳入他们的研究。因此，这个项目有可能产生新的计算机科学研究生和教职员工，并在促进学习的同时促进发现和理解。

AbstractCNS 0851901REU Site: REU Site: MetroBotics: Undergraduate Robot Research at an Urban Public CollegePI: Elizabeth Sklar, CUNY Brooklyn CollegeThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award provides funding for a new Research Experiences for Undergraduate site focused on agent-based systems at CUNY Brooklyn College. In this academic year program undergraduate students perform hands-on experiments dealing with multi-agent and multi-robot systems while working in the Agents Lab environment at Brooklyn College. The project is lead by a faculty team with a history of involvement of undergraduates in research. An Advisory Board of faculty across the greater New York City area provides oversight and assistance with recruitment of students who attend New York City area public colleges. The goal is to provide meaningful research experiences and professional development opportunities to a diverse student population that has been unable to participate in traditional summer resident research programs.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the research focus of agent-based systems, a topic that is of current interest and importance and that is also attractive to undergraduates. The experienced leadership team is providing a research environment and guidance to the undergraduates that could lead to new discoveries and results that impact the field of robotics and multi-agent systems.The broader impacts of the project include providing a quality research experience to a diverse group of undergraduate students, including students from community colleges. The participating faculty members are committed to including under-represented minority students in their research. Thus this project has the potential to produce new computer science graduate students and faculty members and to advance discovery and understanding while promoting learning.