2020 National Robotics Initiative Principal Investigators Meeting

该奖项的目的是为2011年启动的国家机器人计划（NRI）组织年度首席研究员（PI）会议的后勤部分。PI会议将积极参与NRI的研究人员、公司和项目官员聚集在一起，在共同的智力挑战、教育和培训方法、教育最佳实践、技术转让和一般推广方面提供跨项目协调，并集中和持久地说明NRI项目所探索的研究思想和取得的里程碑。国家机器人计划首席研究员会议将于2020年2月在华盛顿特区附近举行两天。该形式将包括出席项目的pi在其最后一年的演讲，所有其他项目的海报会议，主题演讲和小组讨论。会议邀请将包括所有已获NRI奖助金的pi。这个奖项将负责场地、旅行、视听、用品和许多参与组织会议的人员。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 objective of this award is to organize the logistics portion of the annual Principal Investigators (PI) meeting for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), which was launched in 2011. The PI meeting brings together the community of researchers, companies, and program officers who are actively engaged in the NRI to provide cross-project coordination in terms of common intellectual challenges, methods for education and training, best practices in education, technology transfer and general outreach, and a centralized and lasting repository illustrating the research ideas explored and milestones achieved by the NRI projects. The meeting of the Principal Investigators of the National Robotics Initiative will be two days in February 2020 in the vicinity of Washington DC. The format will include presentations by the attending PIs of projects in their final year, a poster session with all other projects, keynote speeches, and panel discussions. Invitations to the meeting will include all PIs with active NRI grants. This award will take care of the venue, travel, A/V, supplies, and many of the personnel involved in organizing the meeting.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.