Architectural Robotics - An International Workshop

这是资助为期一天的国际研讨会的研究人员从学术界和工业界，沿着与研究生，将举行的第11届国际会议上无处不在的计算（Ubicomp 2009），这将发生在2009年9月30日至10月3日，在奥兰多，佛罗里达，这是由计算机协会（ACM）赞助。 Ubicomp是新的研究贡献的首要出口，这些贡献推动了无处不在的计算系统的设计，开发，部署，评估和理解的最新技术。 Ubicomp是一个跨学科的研究和开发领域，它利用并集成了普适、无线、嵌入式、可穿戴和/或移动的技术，以弥合数字世界和物理世界之间的差距。 有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009上查阅。 这个跨学科研讨会是美国第一个此类研讨会，将汇集来自各种科学领域，工程和建筑的研究人员，以确定建筑机器人新兴领域的机遇和挑战，也就是说嵌入建筑环境中的机器人技术。 纵观历史，新技术的出现重塑了我们的建筑环境，也重塑了社会。 研讨会的参与者，其中约20人在此奖项的支持下，将分享他们的研究和教学，并探讨有关复杂的工程系统，以满足人类的需求和愿望的设计问题。 他们将努力解决以下问题：需要培养什么样的新设计词汇，以及定义什么样的自我重构理论，以便为复杂的算法奠定基础，这些算法将感知和推断建筑物的占用，活动和外部条件，从而引发改善生活的变化，增强现有场所，并支持人类互动？ 还有：我们如何教育来自不同学术背景的学生在团队中进行富有成效的合作，以及什么工具可以进一步教授和学习建筑机器人的设计和实施？ PI希望研讨会通过作为未来知识交流，合作和增长的催化剂，推出一个可行的新的研究社区。 为此，活动成果将包括出版一系列立场文件和参考资料（包括学术论文），以及与这一新的研究领域有关的网站和其他媒体。机器人技术在整个建筑环境中的逐步嵌入将对社会产生广泛的影响，因为这些技术支持，在某些情况下，增强了日常工作，学校，娱乐，和休闲。 早期的应用可能会在医疗保健，以支持身体残疾的人，在授权越来越多的人口希望在原地养老，并在智能工作空间，以响应不断变化的需求，消耗更少的占地面积，并降低能源成本。 研讨会中的教育活动将探索多学科课程的教学方法，这些课程弥合了将工程、以人为本的设计、建筑及其相关设计和艺术实践分开的学术文化差距。 PI将尽一切努力确保参与者的多样化，包括少数民族，妇女和残疾人等科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的代表。

This is funding to support a one-day international workshop of researchers from academia and industry, along with graduate students, to be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), which will take place September 30-October 3, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, and which is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ubicomp is the premier outlet for novel research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of research and development that utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds. More information about the conference is available online at http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009. This interdisciplinary workshop, the first of its kind in the United States, will bring together researchers from a variety of scientific domains, from engineering, and from architecture, to identify opportunities and challenges in the emerging field of architectural robotics, that is to say robotics technologies embedded in the built environment. Throughout history the emergence of new technologies has reshaped our built environment and so, society. Workshop participants, about 20 of them supported under this award, will share their research and teaching, and explore issues relating to the design of complex engineered systems that respond to human needs and wants. They will wrestle with questions such as: What new vocabularies of design need to be cultivated, and what theories of self-reconfigurability defined, in order to lay the foundation for sophisticated algorithms that will sense and infer the occupancy, activities, and external conditions of a building so as to trigger change that improves life, enhances existing places, and supports human interaction? And: How can we educate students from different academic backgrounds to collaborate productively in teams, and what tools could further teaching and learning in the design and implementation of architectural robotics? The PIs expect the workshop to launch a viable new research community, by serving as a catalyst for future knowledge exchange, collaboration and growth. To these ends, event outcomes will include publication of a collection of position papers and set of references (including academic papers), as well as Web sites and other media that pertain to this new field of research.Broader Impacts: The gradual embedding of robotics throughout the built environment will have a broad impact on society as these technologies support and, in some cases, augment everyday work, school, entertainment, and leisure. Early applications will likely be in health care, in support for persons with physical disabilities, in the empowerment of a growing populating wishing to age in place, and in intelligent work spaces that are responsive to changing needs, that consume less floor space, and that reduce energy costs. The educational activities in the workshop will explore methods of teaching multidisciplinary classes that bridge the academic cultural gaps that separate engineering, human-centered design, and architecture and its allied design and art practices. The PIs will make every effort to ensure a diverse group of participants including representatives of underrepresented groups in science and engineering such as minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.