REU Site: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

REU 网站：机器人和自主系统

• 批准号: 1659838
• 负责人: Nora Ayanian
• 金额: $ 33.36万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659838&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Robotics; Autonomous; Systems

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site will train students in research methodology by engaging them in authentic research projects and using a focused approach to promote a sense of belonging in the research community. The participating faculty mentors span the spectrum of cutting-edge research topics in robotics and are well established in their fields. Students will participate in research projects that cross-cut multiple areas of robotics and autonomous systems, including socially assistive robotics, robot learning, networked robotics, and robotics data processing. They will gain research experience in solving some of the most challenging modern robotics and autonomy problems and get exposure to robotics research beyond the scope of the REU site, through seminars by other University of Southern California faculty and external site visits, to aid in planning their next career steps. The intended impact is to have a significant proportion of the REU students go on to graduate school.The goal of this REU site is to incorporate into the professional research community a cohort of undergraduate student participants from three populations: (1) academically talented students from traditionally underserved colleges and universities, (2) women, and (3) underrepresented minorities. It will use expertise from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Center for Engineering Diversity to explicitly promote diversity in the REU student pool. The dual objective is to train carefully selected students in research methodology, and excite them about robotics research by providing a compelling cohort experience. Students will work with faculty mentors and their Ph.D. students, interact with an existing Viterbi School of Engineering Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site, and engage in three relevant external research visits. A rigorous assessment of outcomes is planned. To facilitate the sense of a research cohort and encourage networks, housing will be provided in on-campus apartments, as will additional social programs.

本科生（REU）网站的研究经验将通过让学生参与真实的研究项目，并使用有针对性的方法来培养学生的研究方法，以促进研究社区的归属感。参与的教师导师跨越机器人领域的前沿研究课题，并在各自的领域建立了良好的基础。学生将参与交叉机器人和自主系统多个领域的研究项目，包括社会辅助机器人，机器人学习，网络机器人和机器人数据处理。他们将获得解决一些最具挑战性的现代机器人和自主问题的研究经验，并通过南加州其他大学的教师和外部现场访问的研讨会，接触到超出REU网站范围的机器人研究，以帮助规划他们的下一个职业步骤。 该网站的目标是将来自三个群体的本科生参与者纳入专业研究社区：（1）来自传统上服务不足的学院和大学的学术天才学生，（2）女性，（3）代表性不足的少数民族。 它将利用南加州大学维特比工程学院工程多样性中心的专业知识，明确促进REU学生群体的多样性。双重目标是培养精心挑选的学生研究方法，并通过提供令人信服的队列体验激发他们对机器人研究的兴趣。学生将与教师导师和他们的博士工作。学生，与现有的维特比工程研究经验的教师（RET）网站的学校互动，并从事三个相关的外部研究访问。计划对成果进行严格评估。为了促进研究群体的意识和鼓励网络，将在校园公寓提供住房，以及其他社会项目。

项目成果

Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Experiments

• 发表时间: 2019-12
• 作者: Yifang Chen;Alex Cuellar;Haipeng Luo;Jignesh Modi;Heramb Nemlekar;S. Nikolaidis

The fair contextual multi-armed bandit

公平上下文的多臂老虎机

• DOI: 10.5555/3398761.3398990
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
• 作者: Chen, Yifang;Cuellar, Alex;Luo, Haipeng;Modi, Jignesh;Nemlekar, Heramb;Nikolaidis, Stefanos
• 通讯作者: Nikolaidis, Stefanos