Student Travel Support to Japan: 2009 IEEE Int Conf Robotics and Automation and Lab Visits

该项目部分资助30名美国研究生参加2009年5月在日本神户举行的2009年IEEE机器人与自动化国际会议。它还支持学生在会议前后访问日本的实验室。该项目的目的是增加美国机器人研究生对日本研究人员的接触；帮助美国学生与日本学生建立有意义的关系；鼓励未来的合作，在这些学生的职业生涯早期就播下国际合作的种子。从这个意义上说，这个项目的目标与美国国家科学基金会东亚和太平洋暑期研究所（EAPSI）有很多共同之处。事实上，这个项目的一个成果预计将增加对EAPSI和日本博士后奖学金机会的兴趣。其他成果将通过学生旅行报告和调查来衡量。该项目还建立了一个美国机器人实验室的数据库，这些实验室愿意接待未来来自日本的访客，作为互惠计划的一部分。

This project is partially funding up to 30 US graduate students to attend the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Kobe, Japan, in May 2009. It is also supporting student visits to laboratories in Japan before and after the conference. The purpose of this project is to increase exposure of US graduate students in robotics to research and researchers in Japan; to help establish meaningful relationships between US students and their counterparts in Japan; and to encourage future collaborations by planting the seeds of international collaboration early in these students' careers. In this sense, the goals of this project have much in common with the NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI). Indeed, one outcome of this project is expected to be increased interest in the EAPSI and postdoctoral fellowship opportunities in Japan. Other outcomes will be measured by student trip reports and surveys. This project is also producing a database of US robotics labs willing to host future visitors from Japan as part of reciprocal programs.