(PYI) Computational and Experimental Studies of Motor Learning in Humans and Robots (Computer Research)

这个总统青年研究员奖是为了支持 马萨诸塞州理工学院的克里斯托弗·阿特克森。 他的研究兴趣是运动控制的研究， 在人类和机器中学习 他使用工具和技术 从生物、计算机和工程科学， 人类控制和改善他们的运动，以及机器如何 达到人类的水平。 Atkeson目前的研究主要有三个方面： 一般运动学习的计算研究;实验的 机器人学习的研究;以及人类的心理物理学研究 运动学习 这项工作的意义在于 它对人类和机器人的影响：在前者， 更好地理解我们如何学习新的手臂动作， 补偿运动障碍，并适应假肢和 辅助设备;在后者，更有用和可用的机器人。

This Presidential Young Investigator Award is for support of Christopher Atkeson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are the study of motor control and learning in humans and machines. He uses tools and techniques from biological, computer, and engineering sciences to study how humans control and improve their movement and how machines might attain human levels of perfomrance. Atkeson's current research has three main thrusts: computational studies of motor learning in general; experimental studies of robot learning; and psychophysical studies of human motor learning. The significance of this work lies in the implications it has for both humans and robots: in the former, better understanding of how we learn new arm movements, compensate for motor disorders, and adapt to prosthetic and assistive devices; in the latter, more useful and usable robots.