REU Site: Robots in the Real World

机器人是一个非常多学科的领域，融合了机械工程，电气工程，计算机科学等方面的思想。机器人专家必须考虑从机械设计到规划，再到理解与机器人交互的人的需求的系统的各个方面;因此，成为机器人专家所需的广泛技能使其成为许多本科生具有挑战性和丰富性的领域。尽管有这种吸引力，但某些障碍往往会干扰本科生参与机器人研究，包括国内机构缺乏机器人基础设施，以及工程专业代表性不足的学生群体面临的管道挑战。该研究经验的本科生（REU）网站更新项目特别旨在解决上述多样性和包容性的主题，并改善计划评估，同时保留过去成功的网站方面。本科生在这个REU网站将工作在积极的研究项目，有助于在广泛的机器人研究领域的新发现，从机器人建模到理解人类心理学，因为它适用于与机器人的互动。夏季项目工作将属于俄勒冈州州立大学机器人教师和附属机构的领域，所有项目将集中在机器人研究的贡献，涉及在现实世界中部署的物理机器人。这些项目涉及探索极端海洋环境的自主机器人、远程呈现机器人和下一代社交机器人。REU学生的经验将涉及制定和追求机器人研究问题的领导教师在全国排名最高的研究生机器人项目之一的监督下。从历史上看，大约有20名项目参与者共同撰写了经过同行评审的学术论文，这些论文基于他们的夏季研究推进了该领域的知识水平。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Robotics is an extremely multi-disciplinary field that incorporates ideas from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and beyond. Roboticists must consider aspects of systems from mechanical design to planning to understanding the needs of people who interact with robots; as such, the broad range of skills needed to be a roboticist makes it both a challenging and enriching field for many undergraduates. Despite this appeal, certain obstacles often interfere with undergraduate participation in robotics research, including lack of robotics infrastructure at home institutions and pipeline challenges for groups of students who are underrepresented in engineering. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site renewal project particularly aims to address the above diversity and inclusion topics and improve program evaluation while preserving past successful aspects of the Site.Undergraduate students at this REU Site will work on active research projects, contributing to new findings in a wide range of robotics research areas, from modeling robots to understanding human psychology as it applies to interactions with robots. The summer project work will fall under the domains of Oregon State University robotics faculty and affiliates, and all projects will focus on robotics research contributions that involve physical robots deployed in real-world settings. These projects involve autonomous robots to explore extreme ocean environments, telepresence robots, and next generation social robots. The REU student experience will involve formulating and pursuing robotics research questions under the supervision of leading faculty in one of the highest-ranked graduate robotics programs in the country. Historically, approximately 20 program participants have co-authored peer-reviewed academic papers that advanced the state of knowledge in the field based on their summer research.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.