Travel Support for Students to Attend a Symposium on the Influences of Behavior-Based Robotics on the Field

这笔资金将资助大约50名学生参加一个为期一天的研讨会，主题是基于行为的机器人技术对超过25年的机器人研究和发展的影响，该研讨会将于2012年3月9日星期五在麻省理工学院校园举行，紧接今年在波士顿举行的ACM/IEEE人机交互国际会议。研讨会的主要重点是未来可能的研究轨迹；为此，研讨会将审查该方法对学术研究和商业发展的影响。例如，20世纪80年代末基于包容的机器人与今天销售的Roomba之间的关系很明显：Roomba在编程和行为上与昆虫机器人成吉思汗和阿提拉非常相似。目前正在开发的所有机器人系统都有这样的连接吗？研讨会将探讨几个问题，包括基于行为的机器人的成功，为了开发更复杂任务的机器人而对这种范式的适应，以及未来十年机器人研究和发展的可能趋势。研讨会分为四个主要部分。第一部分将讨论早期基于行为的机器人技术和包容架构，探索该领域的最初争议和早期工作。第二部分将着眼于这项工作的全球影响，讨论世界各地实验室的相关研究，以及基于行为的机器人技术如何在许多不同的机器人领域得到使用和扩展。第三章将探讨基于行为的机器人与其他研究领域（如多智能体学习和计算机视觉）之间的联系。最后一部分将探讨这项工作的遗产，包括研究和商业机器人开发，以及基于行为的机器人技术的未来前景。更广泛的影响：参加研讨会的学生将有机会与顶级机器人研究人员社区见面并建立联系，为合作和指导开辟渠道。指导教师将能够亲自向学生介绍该领域的杰出人物（因为大多数学生将有指导教师在场）；这些介绍，加上相对较小的聚会规模，承诺为学生提供更个性化，更难忘，因此，更有影响力的经验。这次活动将为学生提供许多与教师、机器人公司工作人员以及其他学生建立联系的机会。这些网络机会可能导致未来的合作和研究。

This is funding for approximately 50 students to attend a full day symposium on the impact of behavior-based robotics on over 25 years of robotics research and development, which will be held on Friday, March 9, 2012, on the MIT campus, immediately following the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction which takes place this year in Boston. The symposium's primary focus in on possible future research trajectories; to this end, the symposium will examine the impact of the approach on both academic research and commercial development. For example, the relationship between the subsumption-based robots of the late 1980s and the Roombas being sold today is clear: the Roomba very much resembles the insect-like robots Genghis and Attila in its programming and behaviors. Are there such connections to all robot systems currently under development? The symposium will examine several questions, including the successes of behavior based robots, the adaptations made to this paradigm in order to develop robots for more complicated tasks, and the likely trends in robotics research and development over the next decade.The symposium is structured into four main sections. The first section will address the early years of behavior-based robotics and the subsumption architecture, exploring the initial controversy and early work in this domain. The second section will look at the global impact of the work, discussing related research in labs around the world and how behavior-based robotics have been used and expanded in many different robotics domains. The third will look at the connections between behavior-based robotics and other research areas such as multi-agent learning and computer vision. The final section will explore the legacies of the work, both in terms of research and commercial robot development, and the future prospects for behavior-based robotics.Broader Impacts: Student attendees at the symposium will have an opportunity to meet and network with a community of top robotics researchers, opening up channels for collaboration and mentoring. Faculty advisors will be able to introduce their students in-person to the field's luminaries (as most students will have their faculty advisor present); these introductions, combined with the relatively small size of the gathering, promise to provide a more personal, more memorable, and, thus, more influential experience for the students. This event will provide students with many opportunities for making connections with faculty, with people working in robotics companies, and with other students. These networking opportunities may lead to future collaborations and research.