Travel Support for Students to Attend a Symposium on the Influences of Behavior-Based Robotics on the Field

这是资助约50名学生参加为期一天的研讨会的影响，基于行为的机器人技术对超过25年的机器人研究和开发，这将是在周五举行，2012年3月9日，在麻省理工学院校园，紧接着ACM/IEEE国际会议人机交互，这是今年在波士顿举行。 研讨会的主要重点是未来可能的研究轨迹;为此，研讨会将审查该方法对学术研究和商业发展的影响。 例如，20世纪80年代末基于包容的机器人和今天销售的Roomba之间的关系是明确的：Roomba在编程和行为上非常类似于昆虫机器人Genghis和Attila。 目前正在开发的所有机器人系统都有这样的连接吗？ 研讨会将探讨几个问题，包括基于行为的机器人的成功，为开发用于更复杂任务的机器人而对这一范式进行的调整，以及未来十年机器人研究和开发的可能趋势。 第一部分将讨论基于行为的机器人技术和包容架构的早期，探讨这一领域的最初争议和早期工作。 第二部分将着眼于这项工作的全球影响，讨论世界各地实验室的相关研究，以及基于行为的机器人技术如何在许多不同的机器人领域得到应用和扩展。 第三部分将研究基于行为的机器人技术与其他研究领域（如多智能体学习和计算机视觉）之间的联系。 最后一节将探讨这项工作的遗产，无论是在研究和商业机器人开发方面，以及基于行为的机器人技术的未来前景。更广泛的影响：参加研讨会的学生将有机会与顶级机器人研究人员社区见面和交流，开辟合作和指导的渠道。 教师顾问将能够亲自向学生介绍该领域的杰出人物（因为大多数学生都会有他们的教师顾问在场）;这些介绍，加上聚会的规模相对较小，承诺为学生提供更个人，更难忘，因此更具影响力的体验。 本次活动将为学生提供许多机会，与教师，与机器人公司工作的人，并与其他学生建立联系。 这些网络机会可能会导致未来的合作和研究。

This is funding for approximately 50 students to attend a full day symposium on the impact of behavior-based robotics on over 25 years of robotics research and development, which will be held on Friday, March 9, 2012, on the MIT campus, immediately following the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction which takes place this year in Boston. The symposium's primary focus in on possible future research trajectories; to this end, the symposium will examine the impact of the approach on both academic research and commercial development. For example, the relationship between the subsumption-based robots of the late 1980s and the Roombas being sold today is clear: the Roomba very much resembles the insect-like robots Genghis and Attila in its programming and behaviors. Are there such connections to all robot systems currently under development? The symposium will examine several questions, including the successes of behavior based robots, the adaptations made to this paradigm in order to develop robots for more complicated tasks, and the likely trends in robotics research and development over the next decade.The symposium is structured into four main sections. The first section will address the early years of behavior-based robotics and the subsumption architecture, exploring the initial controversy and early work in this domain. The second section will look at the global impact of the work, discussing related research in labs around the world and how behavior-based robotics have been used and expanded in many different robotics domains. The third will look at the connections between behavior-based robotics and other research areas such as multi-agent learning and computer vision. The final section will explore the legacies of the work, both in terms of research and commercial robot development, and the future prospects for behavior-based robotics.Broader Impacts: Student attendees at the symposium will have an opportunity to meet and network with a community of top robotics researchers, opening up channels for collaboration and mentoring. Faculty advisors will be able to introduce their students in-person to the field's luminaries (as most students will have their faculty advisor present); these introductions, combined with the relatively small size of the gathering, promise to provide a more personal, more memorable, and, thus, more influential experience for the students. This event will provide students with many opportunities for making connections with faculty, with people working in robotics companies, and with other students. These networking opportunities may lead to future collaborations and research.