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

为学生参加关于基于行为的机器人技术对现场的影响的研讨会提供旅行支持

• 批准号: 1237941
• 负责人: Holly Yanco
• 金额: $ 1.13万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Support; Students; Attend; Symposium

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.

这笔资金用于资助大约50名学生参加一个全天的研讨会，主题是基于行为的机器人对超过25年的机器人研究和开发的影响，该研讨会将于2012年3月9日星期五在麻省理工学院校园举行，紧随今年在波士顿举行的ACM/IEEE人-机器人交互国际会议。专题讨论会的主要重点是未来可能的研究轨迹；为此，专题讨论会将审查这一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与今天销售的Roomba之间的关系很明显：Roomba在编程和行为上与昆虫机器人成吉思汗和阿提拉非常相似。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，为开发更复杂任务的机器人而对这一范例的适应，以及未来十年机器人研究和发展的可能趋势。第一部分将讨论基于行为的机器人和包容体系结构的早期阶段，探索该领域最初的争议和早期工作。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。第三部分将探讨基于行为的机器人学与其他研究领域之间的联系，如多智能体学习和计算机视觉。最后一部分将探索这项工作的遗产，无论是在研究还是商业机器人开发方面，以及基于行为的机器人的未来前景。广泛的影响：参加研讨会的学生将有机会与顶尖机器人研究人员的社区见面并建立网络，打开合作和指导的渠道。教师顾问将能够当面将他们的学生介绍给该领域的杰出人士(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，有望为学生提供更个人化、更令人难忘的体验，从而更具影响力。这次活动将为学生提供许多机会与教师、在机器人公司工作的人以及其他学生建立联系。这些网络机会可能会带来未来的合作和研究。