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，以及处于职业生涯早期阶段的学生，参加将于2023年7月10日至14日在韩国大邱举行的机器人：科学与系统（RSS）会议及其相关研讨会。学生们将由高级研究人员进行虚拟指导，以便在会议前做好准备。他们还将与参加会议的高级研究人员配对，在整个会议活动中接受一对一的指导。通过将机器人领域代表性不足群体的早期职业研究人员暴露在这种智力环境中，他们将能够更好地定位自己在该领域的位置，并获得更好的研究类型和研究质量的想法，从而在该领域产生影响。该项目支持机器人专业学生的旅行。这些旅行补助金的接受者将完成会后调查，以评估参加会议的价值。我们将对这些反馈进行分析，以帮助制定未来的旅游奖项。该计划的主要目标是增加传统机器人领域代表性不足群体的新会议参与者数量，以扩大未来机器人研究人员的群体，使其背景比目前机器人研究人员中的典型群体更加多样化。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 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.