Grant for Doctoral Consortium of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014)

这项提案将为从事机器人研究的美国博士生提供机会，让他们有机会分享自己的知识，并与其他更资深的研究人员互动，了解机器人领域的不同子领域，与潜在的雇主会面，并了解供应商将展示的新技术。这一目标将通过部分支持美国博士生参加国际智能机器人与系统会议（IROS）的旅费来实现。IROS由IEEE和日本机器人学会（RSJ）赞助，与IEEE ICRA一起是机器人领域的两个主要年度会议之一。IROS的位置在北美、欧洲和亚洲之间轮换。会议吸引了包括学者、工业工作者、企业家和资助机构领导人在内的国际人群。会议是一个独特的环境，允许参与者交换想法，与该领域的领导者互动，结识有前途的工程师，网络，发展合作，并产生关于机器人技术前沿的新想法。

This proposal will support U.S. Ph.D. students working in robotics the opportunity to share their knowledge and interact with each other and more senior researchers, to learn about different sub-fields within robotics, to meet potential employers, and to become apprised of new technology that will be demonstrated by vendors. This goal will be accomplished by partially supporting the travel costs for U.S. Ph.D. students to attend the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IROS, sponsored by IEEE and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), is one of the two premier annual conferences, along with IEEE ICRA, in the robotics field. The location of IROS rotates among North America, Europe, and Asia. The conference attracts an international crowd that includes academics, industry workers, entrepreneurs, and funding agency leaders. The meeting is a unique environment that allows participants to exchange ideas, interact with leaders in the field, meet up-and-coming engineers, network, develop collaborations, and generate new ideas on the leading edge of robotic technology.