Special Session on Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

网络物理系统(CPS)是以嵌入式计算和通信为特征的一种新型系统，它以支持物理系统新功能的方式与物理世界深度和无缝地集成在一起。这些系统和应用的例子包括未来的交通系统、智能电网和纳米级精密制造系统。CPS的研究目标是了解基础科学，开发适用于各种网络物理系统的快速、可靠的设计和集成技术。机器人系统是CPS的一类。机器人与世界智能互动的能力取决于嵌入式计算和通信、实时控制和对世界的感知。未来将实现CPS愿景的机器人系统包括日益智能化的手术系统、辅助生活的机器人以及用于探索和紧急响应的机器人团队。该研讨会的目标将是确定机器人研究主题，这些主题概括到更大的CPS领域，以及CPS中可以促进机器人研究的一般主题。我们期待拟议的研讨会将是富有成果的，因为机器人界在结合物理和计算思维方面拥有丰富的集体经验，而且之前还没有一个研讨会专注于机器人学和CPS之间的联系。建议的研讨会将鼓励机器人研究人员参与国家科学基金会？S CPS倡议，并寻找与其他领域的研究人员合作的机会，以制定将广泛适用的基本CPS原则。

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a new class of system characterized by embedded computation and communication integrated deeply and seamlessly with the physical world in ways that support new capabilities in physical systems. Examples of such systems and applications include future transportation systems, the intelligent power grid, and nano-scale precision manufacturing systems. The goals of research in CPS are to understand the fundamental science and to develop rapid, reliable design and integration techniques applicable to a wide variety of cyber-physical systems.Robotic systems are a class of CPS. The ability of robots to interact intelligently with the world rests upon embedded computation and communication, real-time control, and perception of the world. Future robotic systems that will realize the vision of CPS include increasingly intelligent surgery systems, robots for assisted living, and robot teams for exploration and emergency response. The goal of this workshop will be to identify research themes in robotics that generalize to the larger CPS domain and general themes from CPS that could advance robotics research. We expect the proposed workshop to be fruitful, because the robotics community has great collective experience in combining physical and computational thinking, and because there has not previously been a workshop that focused on the connections between robotics and CPS.The proposed workshop will encourage robotics researchers to participate in NSF?s CPS Initiative and to seek out opportunities for collaboration with researchers in other domains to develop fundamental CPS principles that will be broadly applicable.