U.S.-U.K. Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics, Cambridge, England, April 1991

该奖项将支持美国参与美英研讨会 关于康复机器人的主题， 1991年4月，英国剑桥。 协办机构包括： 俄亥俄州州立大学的理查德豪厄尔博士和雷·戈辛博士， 剑桥大学工程系。 迅速扩大的研究领域被称为 “康复机器人”致力于开发 功能性机器人辅助工具， 家庭、工作或教育中的身体残疾人 环境. 作为一个新的奋进领域，康复 机器人学是由来自以下学科的信息组成的： 工程、康复、教育和计算机科学。 将这些不同的领域合并成一个有凝聚力的 这一努力由于很少的业务研究而变得更加困难。 项目，从中获取信息， 在世界各地彼此孤立。 拟议 研讨会将举行国际研究会议 康复机器人领域的科学家们， 总结目前的研究工作，并讨论了一系列 主题侧重于机器人设备的残疾人使用。 的 主题将包括：用户界面， 机器人环境，用户的需求和感知， 和用户对机器人设备的可接受性。 此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 建议就硬件方面的当前进展举行会议， 软件，以及与机器人商业化有关的方面 系统.

This award will support US participation in a US-UK workshop on the topic or rehabilitation robotics, to take place in Cambridge, England in April 1991. The co-organizers are: Dr. Richard Howell, Ohio State University and Dr. Ray Gosine, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. The rapidly expanding research area which has been termed "rehabilitation robotics" is dedicated to the development of functional robotic assistive tools for use by severely physically disabled individuals in home, work or educational environments. As a new area of endeavor, rehabilitation robotics is composed of information from the disciplines of engineering, rehabilitation, education and computer science. The task of merging these disparate areas into a cohesive effort is made more difficult by the few operational research projects from which to draw information, and which are quite isolated from one another throughout the world. The proposed workshop will feature an international gathering of research scientists in rehabilitation robotics, who will present summaries of current research efforts and discuss a series of topics focusing on the disabled use of robotic devices. The topics will include: the user interface, safety issues in robotic environments, the needs and perceptions of the users, and user acceptability of robotic devices. In addition, sessions are proposed on the current progress in hardware and software, and aspects related to commercialization of robotic systems.