Travel: Inclusion at Robotics: Science and Systems 2023; Daegu, Republic of Korea; 10-14 July 2023

该项目支持来自机器人领域传统代表性不足群体的美国学生在其职业生涯的早期阶段参加2023年7月10日至14日在大韩民国大邱举行的机器人：科学与系统会议及其相关讲习班。这些学生实际上将由资深研究人员指导，为他们在会议之前做好准备。他们还将与出席会议的资深研究人员配对，在整个会议活动中接受一对一的指导。通过将机器人领域中代表性不足的群体的早期职业研究人员暴露在这种类型的智力环境中，他们将能够更好地在该领域找到自己的位置，并就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。这些旅费补助金的接受者将完成会后调查，以评估参加会议的价值。这些回应将被分析，以帮助制定未来的旅游奖项。该计划的主要目标是增加来自机器人领域传统上代表性不足的群体的新会议参与者的数量，以扩大未来机器人研究人员的人才库，使其具有比目前机器人研究人员更多样化的背景。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 United States students from traditionally underrepresented groups in robotics, and in early stages of their careers, to participate in the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, along with its associated workshops taking place in Daegu, Republic of Korea, 10-14 July 2023. The students will be mentored virtually by senior researchers to prepare them prior to the conference. They will also be paired with senior researchers attending the conference to receive one-on-one mentorship throughout the conference events. By exposing early career researchers from underrepresented groups in robotics to this type of intellectual environment, they will be better able to situate themselves in the field and gain better ideas for the type and quality of research required to have an impact in the field.This project supports travel for students in robotics. The recipients of these travel grants will complete post-conference surveys to assess the value of attending the conference. The responses will be analyzed to help shape future travel awards. The primary goal of the program is to increase the number of new conference participants from traditionally underrepresented groups in robotics in order to broaden the pool of future robotics researchers to a more diverse set of backgrounds than is currently typical among robotics researchers.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.