Engineering Research Equipment Grant -- Computer Workstations for Implementing Simulators for Autonomous Robot Agents

在未来的分布式现场生产环境中， 机器和人类一样， 具有相当丰富的知识来计划和控制自主任务， 尽管事实上，他们将被限制在自己的 知识 然而，没有统一的理论和指导方针存在 用于定义和交流有关设计和领域的知识 以一种可以有效利用的方式， 机械. 标准的研究人员正朝着这样一个理论努力 为了支持其他人对未来的研究 机器人在野外条件下的应用 研究寻求 发现和制定一个普遍的认知和通信 核心的理论和软件，这样的机器，并这样做，在一个 一个基本的方法，可以使这些机器人有共同的模式， “思考”和交流的能力， 更好地处理突发事件和利用 知识在环境中。

In future distributed field production environments, intelligent machines, like their human counterparts, will need to harness considerable knowledge to plan and control autonomous tasks in spite of the fact that they will be limited in their own knowledge. However, no unifying theory and few guidelines exist for defining and communicating knowledge about designs and field operations in a way that can effectively be utilized by such machines. Standard researchers are working toward such a theory in order to support the research of others on future applications of robotics in field conditions. The research seeks to discover and formulate a general cognitive and communications core of theory and software for such machines, and do so in a fundamental way that can enable these robots to have common modes of "thinking" and communicating that would provide them with the ability to better deal with unexpected events and exploit the knowledge in their environment.