Workshop: Locomotion and Manipulation: Why the Great Divide?

让机器人在不确定的环境中完成有用的工作仍然是机器人领域的一个巨大挑战。这种能力可能产生的最大影响之一是能够开发新的合作机器人，这些机器人是护士，勤杂工和老人和体弱者的管家。 其他重要的应用将是合作机器人，可以帮助在对灾难的第一反应中找到和疏散受伤人员，改进主动假肢设备和外骨骼的设计和控制，以及用于人机协作工作的运动和操纵行为。该提案要求资金组织一个研讨会，重点是开发新的规划和控制方法，以延长机器人？有能力将自己运送到工作地点，然后进行有用的体力工作。 建议举办一个为期两天的讲习班，鼓励学术界和工业界机器人操纵和运动研究界之间的合作。该研讨会的动机是，虽然驱动运动和操纵的基本物理原理是相似的，但两个社区开发的技术却不同。研讨会将分析这些差异的原因，并探索使它们更接近的想法，目标是交叉传播这两个领域的进步。此外，讲习班将审议工业界为解决这些问题所作努力的影响。

Getting robots to perform useful work in uncertain environments is still a grand challenge in robotics. One of the biggest possible impacts of this ability would be to enable the development of new co-robots that are nurses, handymen, and butlers for the elderly and infirm. Other important applications would be co-robots that can help find and evacuate the injured during first responses to disasters, improvements in design and control of active prosthetic devices and exoskeletons, and locomotion and manipulation behaviors for collaborative human-robot work. This proposal requests funds to organize a workshop focused on developing new planning and control methods to extend robots? abilities to transport themselves to work sites and then to perform useful physical work. A two-day workshop is proposed to encourage collaboration between the research communities of robotic manipulation and locomotion, both in academia and industry. The workshop is motivated by the fact that, although the underlying physical principles driving locomotion and manipulation are similar, the techniques developed by the two communities are not. The workshop will analyze the reasons for these differences and explore ideas to bring them closer, with the goal of cross-pollinating advances in both fields. In addition, the workshop will consider the impact of industrial efforts to address these problems.