EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE-TU: Towards Ubiquity)

EPSRC 未来自主机器人系统博士培训中心（FARSCOPE-TU：迈向无处不在）

• 批准号: EP/S021795/1
• 金额: $ 650.1万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS021795%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Doctoral; Training; Future

FARSCOPE-TU (Towards Ubiquity) will train a new generation of "T-shaped roboticists" in the priority area of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS). T-shaping means graduates will combine the depth of individual PhD research experience with broad awareness of the priority area, including technical tools and topics spanning multiple disciplines. Breadth will be enhanced by strong understanding of the industrial and societal context in which future RAS will operate. These graduates will meet the need for future innovators in RAS, evidenced by industrial partner demand and growing research investment, to deliver potential UK global leadership in the RAS area. That need spans many applications and technologies, so FARSCOPE-TU adopts a broad and ambitious vision of RAS ubiquity, motivating the research challenge to make RAS that are significantly more interactive with their environments.The FARSCOPE-TU training experience has been carefully designed to support T-shaping by bringing in students from many disciplines and upskilling them through an integrated programme of individual research and cohort activities, which mix together throughout the four years of study. The FARSCOPE-TU research challenge necessitates multidisciplinary thinking, as the enabling technologies of computer science and engineering interface with questions of psychology, biology, policy, ethics, law and more. Students from this diverse range of backgrounds will be recruited, with reskilling supported through fundamental training and peer learning at the outset. The first year will be organized as a formal programme of study, equivalent to a Masters degree. The remaining three years will focus on PhD research, punctuated by mandatory cohort-based training to refresh first year content and all subject to annual progress monitoring. Topics will include responsible innovation, enterprise, public engagement, and industrial context.FARSCOPE-TU has formed partnerships with 19 organizations who share its vision, have helped co-create the training programme, and span technologies and applications that align with the CDT's broad interpretation of RAS. Partner engagement will be central to covering industrial context training. Partners and the FARSCOPE-TU team have also co-created a flexible programme of engagement mechanisms, designed to support a diverse set of partner sizes and interests, to allow collaborations to evolve, and to be responsive to potential new partners. The programme includes mentoring, mutual training by and for partners, collaboration on research and industry projects, sponsorship and leveraged funding opportunities. Partners have committed £2.5M in leverage to support FARSCOPE-TU including 15 studentships from the hosts and 12 sponsored places from industry.FARSCOPE-TU will promote equality, diversity and inclusion both internally and, since the vision includes robots interacting with society, in its research. For example, FARSCOPE-TU could consider how training data bias would affect equality of interaction between humans and home assistance robots. FARSCOPE-TU will instigate a high-profile Single Equality Scheme named "Inclusive Robotics" that combines operational initiatives, including explicit targets, with events and training, linked to responsible innovation and human interaction. FARSCOPE-TU will deliver a joint PhD award, badged by partners University of Bristol and University of the West of England. The CDT will be run through their established Bristol Robotics Lab partnership, providing over 4,500sqm dedicated RAS laboratory space and a community of over 50 supervisors. BRL's existing FARSCOPE CDT provides the security of a strong track record, with 46 students recruited in four cohorts so far and an approved joint programme. FARSCOPE-TU builds on that experience with a revised first year to support diverse intake and early partner engagement, enhanced contextual training, the new T-shape concept and the wider ubiquity vision.

FARSCOPE-TU（Towards Ubiquity）将在机器人和自主系统（RAS）的优先领域培养新一代“T形机器人专家”。T形意味着毕业生将联合收割机结合个人博士研究经验的深度与优先领域的广泛认识，包括技术工具和跨越多个学科的主题。通过对未来RAS运作的工业和社会背景的深刻理解，将增强其广度。这些毕业生将满足工业合作伙伴需求和不断增长的研究投资所证明的RAS未来创新者的需求，以提供RAS领域潜在的英国全球领导地位。这种需求跨越了许多应用和技术，因此FARSCOPE-TU采用了广泛而雄心勃勃的RAS无处不在的愿景，激励研究挑战，使RAS与他们的环境更具互动性。FARSCOPE-TU培训体验经过精心设计，通过引入来自多个学科的学生，并通过个人研究和队列活动的综合计划来提高他们的技能，从而支持T形塑造，在四年的学习过程中，FARSCOPE-TU研究挑战需要多学科思维，因为计算机科学和工程的使能技术与心理学，生物学，政策，伦理学，法律等问题相结合。来自不同背景的学生将被招募，并通过基础培训和同伴学习在一开始就支持再技能。第一年将作为正式的学习计划，相当于硕士学位。剩下的三年将专注于博士研究，并通过强制性的队列培训来更新第一年的内容，所有这些都将受到年度进展监测。主题将包括负责任的创新、企业、公众参与和行业背景。FARSCOPE-TU已与19个组织建立了合作伙伴关系，这些组织与其愿景相同，帮助共同创建了培训计划，并涵盖了与CDT对RAS的广泛解释相一致的技术和应用。合作伙伴的参与将是涵盖工业背景培训的核心。合作伙伴和FARSCOPE-TU团队还共同创建了一个灵活的参与机制计划，旨在支持不同规模和兴趣的合作伙伴，允许合作不断发展，并对潜在的新合作伙伴做出反应。该方案包括指导、合作伙伴相互培训、研究和工业项目合作、赞助和杠杆融资机会。合作伙伴已承诺250万英镑的杠杆作用，以支持FARSCOPE-TU，包括15个来自主机的学生和12个来自行业的赞助名额。FARSCOPE-TU将促进平等，多样性和包容性在内部，因为愿景包括机器人与社会互动，在其研究中。例如，FARSCOPE-TU可以考虑训练数据偏差如何影响人类和家庭辅助机器人之间的交互平等。FARSCOPE-TU将发起一项名为“包容性机器人”的备受瞩目的单一平等计划，该计划将包括明确目标在内的运营举措与活动和培训相结合，与负责任的创新和人类互动相联系。FARSCOPE-TU将提供由布里斯托大学和西英格兰大学合作伙伴颁发的联合博士学位。CDT将通过他们建立的布里斯托机器人实验室合作伙伴关系运行，提供超过4，500平方米的专用RAS实验室空间和超过50名主管的社区。BRL现有的FARSCOPE CDT提供了一个强大的跟踪记录的安全性，与46名学生在四个队列招募到目前为止和一个批准的联合计划。FARSCOPE-TU基于这一经验，修订了第一年的课程，以支持多样化的入学和早期合作伙伴的参与，增强了情境培训，新的T形概念和更广泛的普遍性愿景。