Inclusion at Robotics: Science and Systems 2020

该项目支持机器人专业的学生参加2020年在俄勒冈州立大学举行的机器人：科学与系统（RSS）会议及其相关研讨会。学生们将通过与资深博士生和博士后配对以及参加由RSS会议主席领导的指导活动来获得指导。通过将早期职业研究人员，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体的研究人员，暴露在这种智力环境中，他们将能够更好地定位于机器人领域，并对在该领域产生影响所需的研究类型和质量获得更好的想法。该项目支持机器人专业学生的旅行。这些旅行补助金的获得者将填写会议后调查，以帮助衡量参加会议的效果。对反馈的分析将有助于定制未来的旅游奖项。这些旅行补助金的一个目标是扩大未来研究人员的数量，使他们拥有比目前机器人研究人员更多样化的背景。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。

This project supports travel for students in robotics to participate in the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, along with its associated workshops in 2020 at the Oregon Sate University. The students will be mentored both through being paired with senior PhD students and postdocs and participation in a mentorship event led by the RSS conference chair. By exposing early career researchers, including those from underrepresented groups, to this type of intellectual environment, they will be better able to be situated in the robotics field and get better ideas for the type and quality of research needed to have impact in the field.This project supports travel for students in robotics. Awardees of these travel grants will fill out post conference surveys to help measure the effects of attending the conference. Analysis of the responses will help tailor future travel awards. One goal of these travel grants is to expand the pool of future researchers to have a more diverse set of backgrounds than is currently typically found amongst researchers in robotics.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.