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

该项目支持来自传统上代表性不足的机器人群体的美国学生，以及他们职业生涯的早期阶段，参加机器人：科学与系统（RSS）会议，沿着其相关研讨会将于2023年7月10日至14日在大韩民国大邱举行。学生们将由高级研究人员进行虚拟指导，以便在会议之前做好准备。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。通过将来自机器人领域代表性不足的群体的早期职业研究人员暴露在这种智力环境中，他们将能够更好地在该领域中培养自己，并获得对该领域产生影响所需的研究类型和质量的更好想法。该项目支持机器人学生的旅行。这些旅费赠款的接受者将完成会后调查，以评估出席会议的价值。将对这些回复进行分析，以帮助制定未来的旅行奖励。该计划的主要目标是增加新的会议参与者的数量，从传统上代表性不足的团体在机器人技术，以扩大未来的机器人技术研究人员的人才库，以更多样化的背景比目前的典型机器人技术研究人员。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查的搜索.

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.