QMUL EPSRC Core Equipment Bid: Q-Arena - a multidisciplinary research environment for human-centred robotics and interactive engineering

为我们的研究人员提供世界级的支持和创造世界级的研究环境是玛丽女王2030年研究和创新战略三大支柱的关键组成部分。QMUL继续进行大量的资本投资，以支持EPSRC职权范围内的研究人员，并使其能够获得最先进的研究基础设施和设备。我们打算利用这笔赠款投资建立Q-Arena，这是一个旗舰的多学科创新和实验测试空间，用于支持研究人员跨学科和组织边界工作。这将推动许多学科领域的颠覆性技术的开创性发展，包括面向老龄化社会和移动性未来的自主机器人系统、人机交互和触觉交互、用于人机交互和人工智能与数据的虚拟现实，以及EPSRC主题的新兴领域，以确保世界领先的研究成果和经济和社会影响。

Providing world-class support and creating a world-class research environment for our researchers are key components of three pillars that inform Queen Mary's 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy. QMUL continues to make significant capital investment to support researchers within the EPSRC remit and to enable access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and equipment. We intend to use this grant to invest in establishment of Q-Arena, a flagship multi-disciplinary innovation and experimental testing space for supporting researchers to work across disciplinary and organisational boundaries. This will boost pioneering developments of disruptive technologies in many subject areas including autonomous robotic systems, human-robot interaction and haptic interaction for the ageing society and future of mobility, virtual reality for human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence and data, and emerging areas in EPSRC themes to ensure world-leading research outputs and economic and societal impact.