II-NEW: A Robot Testbed for Real-Time Motion Strategies and Autonomous Personal Assistants

II-新：用于实时运动策略和自主个人助理的机器人测试台

• 批准号: 1305286
• 负责人: Dinesh Manocha
• 金额: $ 33.95万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1305286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: II; NEW; Robot; Testbed; Real

This infrastructure proposal supports the acquisition of a personal robot and a high-end multi-GPU workstation to develop a new robot testbed for designing and evaluating the next generation of parallelrobot algorithms and open-source software systems on modern commodity computing platforms. The robotplatform will be based on a Meka M1 robot, a state-of-the-art robot with compliant, dextrous arms pluscamera and range sensors. This robot will be used to develop a new set of motion strategy and planningalgorithms and evaluate the capabilities of the robots for two driving applications: (1) assisting older adultsand people with disabilities with activities of daily living and (2) active tele-presence to give people in aremote environment the ability to physically interact with people in the robot?s environment.This robot testbed could lead to novel technologies for the development of personalrobots for assistance with tasks of daily living and active telepresence. These new capabilities could significantlyimprove the quality of life for the elderly, people with disabilities, and other individuals. The developmentof real-time motion strategies could also benefit other areas, such as surgical simulation, CAD/CAM,virtual prototyping, and virtual reality environments. The software libraries developed under this projectwould be made widely available through the public-domain release for all research and educational activitiesacross science, engineering, and medical domains. Teh research team will also integrate research with education, reach outto under-represented groups via programs such as the IBM-sponsored Girls? summer camps, actively involvingundergraduates in the proposed research, and organizing workshops on many-core computing for real-timemotion strategies. Finally, the team expects the new robotics curriculum enabled by the proposed equipment acquisitionto help increase enrollment in Computer Science.

该基础设施提案支持购买个人机器人和高端多GPU工作站，以开发新的机器人测试平台，用于设计和评估现代商品计算平台上的下一代并行机器人算法和开源软件系统。该机器人平台将基于Meka M1机器人，这是一种最先进的机器人，具有柔顺的双臂加上摄像头和距离传感器。该机器人将用于开发一套新的运动策略和规划算法，并评估两种驾驶应用的机器人的能力：（1）帮助老年人和残疾人进行日常生活活动和（2）主动远程呈现，使人们在远程环境中能够与机器人中的人进行物理交互。这个机器人试验台可能会导致新技术的发展personalrobots协助任务的日常生活和主动远程呈现.这些新功能可以显著提高老年人、残疾人和其他个人的生活质量。实时运动策略的发展也可以使其他领域受益，例如手术模拟、CAD/CAM、虚拟原型和虚拟现实环境。在这个项目下开发的软件库将通过公共领域发布广泛用于科学，工程和医学领域的所有研究和教育活动。研究团队还将把研究与教育结合起来，通过IBM赞助的女孩？夏令营，积极让大学生参与拟议的研究，并为实时记忆策略组织众核计算研讨会。最后，该团队希望通过拟议的设备收购实现新的机器人课程，以帮助增加计算机科学的入学率。