REU Site: Applied Computational Robotics

本科生（REU）网站的研究经验将支持计算专业的不同群体在计算机器人的指导研究经验，包括强调专业和学术技能发展和社区建设的组件。目标学生的主要人群将是东南部本科院校的大三和大三学生。该项目将鼓励这些学生走向研究生学习和以研究为导向的行业职位，并为这些职业道路提供必要的准备。这将是一个很好的机会，十个本科生每年参加研究项目。强调计算在机器人技术中的应用是对这种专业知识日益增长的社会需求的支持。这些学生的选拔过程将通过有针对性的宣传和推广工作促进代表性不足的群体的融入。学生进行的研究将导致更有效的方法来机器人感知，控制和互动。该研究还包括植根于软件工程，安全和自动推理等领域的项目，这些领域经常被当代机器人社区忽视，但对于部署可靠，值得信赖的机器人系统至关重要。这些研究项目将围绕“机器人改变一切”这一观点进行组织。也就是说，计算机系统的各个方面，从软件的设计和工程，到与人类的交互，再到感知和运动的核心功能，都受到机器人与物理世界交互方式的深刻影响。

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site will support a diverse group of computing majors in a mentored research experience in computational robotics, including components emphasizing professional and academic skills development and community building. The primary population of target students will be sophomores and juniors from undergraduate-serving institutions in the southeast. The project will encourage these students toward graduate study and research-oriented industry positions, and provide essential preparation for these career paths. It will be an excellent opportunity for ten undergraduates to participate in research projects each year. The emphasis on applications of computing in robotics is supportive of the growing social need for such expertise. The selection process for these students will promote the inclusion of underrepresented groups through targeted publicity and outreach efforts.Research conducted by the students will lead to more effective approaches to robot perception, control, and interaction. The research also includes projects rooted in areas such as software engineering, security, and automated reasoning that are often overlooked by the contemporary robotics community, but crucially important for the deployment of reliable, trustworthy robotic systems. The research projects will be organized around the observation that "Robots Change Everything." That is, every aspect of a computer system, from the design and engineering of its software, to its interactions with humans, to its core functions of perception and movement, is deeply impacted by the way robots must interact with the physical world.