Phase II I/UCRC WPI: Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being

国家科学基金会工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）机器人和传感器用于人类福祉（rosehub）第二阶段将在培育和加速机器人和智能传感器技术在国民经济关键的广泛应用领域的部署方面发挥领导作用，例如运输，能源，物流，制造和基础设施以及社会福祉，例如医疗保健。ROSE-HUB中心将促进中心大学的研究人员与来自工业界、政府、其他大学和非营利组织的合作伙伴合作，寻求解决关键现实挑战的解决方案。伍斯特理工学院（WPI） ROSE-HUB项目的研究重点是在关键技术组件（如算法、传感器和机器人）以及集成系统方面取得根本性进展。目标是通过与工业伙伴合作，在相关应用环境中推进移动性、操作、机器人学习、人机交互和多代理协调能力。将开发方法来平衡实时操作和计算成本或能量，同时通过集成感知、规划和学习提供任务环境的高级语义信息。新型机器人和传感器系统也将被开发，特别是软机器人、传感器和辅助设备。中心的研究将集中在包括身体/心理健康、机器人和传感器系统以协助人类、创新的机器人设计监测和数据收集、精准农业、建筑过程数字化、智能交通系统等应用。研究将影响：a)通过将研究插入产品管道的行业成员，b)通过探索新想法和应用领域的研究人员，c)通过提供实践经验和未来就业潜力的学生，d)学术课程。此外，每年的技术日将吸引来自弱势群体的中学生学习工程，而当地K-16机构的外展计划将鼓励他们追求工程教育。该项目将创建硬件和软件，并从固定和移动机器人、无人驾驶飞行器（uav）和传感器收集实验数据。将建立一个数据管理和传播数据库。软件组件包括：(i)系统框架软件（例如，操作机电系统的低级软件，即机器人，无人机等），（ii）规划，控制，传感和学习算法的软件，（iii）演示试验台和原型的软件。数据保存期为奖励结束后5年。这些数据将在http://rosehubiucrc.github.io站点可用时发布。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Robots and Sensors for Human Well-Being (ROSE-HUB) Phase II will play a leadership role in nurturing and accelerating the deployment of robotics and intelligent sensor technologies in a wide range of application domains key to the national economy, e.g., transportation, energy, logistics, manufacturing, and infrastructure and the well-being of the society, e.g., in healthcare. The ROSE-HUB center will facilitate center university researchers to work with partners from industry, government, other universities, and non-profit organizations to seek solutions to critical real-world challenges.The research foci of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) ROSE-HUB projects strive to make fundamental advances both in key technology components, such as algorithms, sensors, and robots, and in integrative systems. The objectives are to advance mobility, manipulation, robot learning, human-machine interaction, and multi-agent coordination capabilities in general and in the context of relevant applications by collaborating with industrial partners. Methodologies will be developed to balance real-time operation and computational cost or energy while providing high-level semantic information of task environments through integrating perception, planning, and learning. Novel robot and sensor systems will also be developed, especially soft robots, sensors, and assistive devices.Center research will focus on applications including physical/mental health, robots and sensor systems to assist humans, innovative robot designs for monitoring and data collection, precision agriculture, digitization of construction processes, intelligent transportation systems, etc. Research will impact: a) industrial members by inserting research into product pipelines, b) researchers by exploring new ideas and application domains, c) students by providing hands-on experience and future employment potential, and d) academic curricula. Additionally, annual technology days will attract middle school students from underrepresented groups to engineering, and outreach programs to local K-16 institutions will encourage pursuit of engineering education. The project will create hardware and software and collect experimental data from fixed and mobile robots, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and sensors. A database for data management and dissemination will be established. The software components include: (i) system framework software (e.g., low-level software that operates electro-mechanical systems, i.e., robots, UAVs, etc.), (ii) software for planning, control, sensing, and learning algorithms, (iii) software for demonstration testbeds and prototypes. The data retention period is five years after the conclusion of the award. The data will be released as it becomes available to the http://rosehubiucrc.github.io site.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.