NSF Workshop on Future Directions in Cyber Physical Systems, Robotics and Autonomy

该项目将支持为期一天的研讨会，汇集领先的专家来评估国家机器人计划（NRI）和网络物理系统（CPS）计划的影响，探索NRI和CPS之间可能的重叠和协同作用，并确定这两个领域的未来驱动力和机会。讲习班的另一个目标是探讨自治和自治系统科学-另一个具有国家重要性的领域-在何种程度上可以补充这些倡议。该研讨会提供了一个简短的报告，说明了这三个领域之间的差异和协同作用。最近在机器人和网络物理系统的多机构倡议已经成功地催化了许多令人兴奋的，高影响力的教育和研究项目。对这个研讨会的需要源于对NRI和CPS倡议之间的知识相似性和差异的关注，以及他们应该向前迈进。研讨会的重点包括对三个重要增长领域的全面分析：机器人技术，自主性和网络物理系统。预计这三个领域中的每一个都将对我国经济的几乎所有部门产生重大影响，包括医疗保健、制造业、建筑业、采矿业和农业。在这些领域雄心勃勃的教育和研究议程有可能提高我们的人类生活质量。该研讨会汇集了机器人、自主和网络物理系统领域的顶级研究人员，讨论潜在的挑战，并编写一份报告，以帮助学术界、政府和工业界为未来的教育和研究投资提供信息。

This project is to support a one-day workshop to bring together leading experts to evaluate the impact of the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) initiative, explore possible overlap and synergies between the NRI and CPS, and identify future drivers and opportunities for both areas. An additional goal of the workshop is to explore the extent to which the science of autonomy and autonomous systems, another area of national importance, could be complementary to these initiatives. The workshop provides a short report with vignettes that illustrates the differences and the synergies between these three areas.Recent multi-agency initiatives in robotics and cyber physical systems have successfully catalyzed many exciting, high-impact educational and research projects. The need for this workshop stems from the focus on intellectual similarities and differences between the NRI and CPS initiatives, and what should they be going forward. The workshop focus consists of a comprehensive analysis of three important growth areas: robotics, autonomy, and cyber physical systems. Each of these three areas is expected to significantly impact virtually all sectors of our economy including healthcare, manufacturing, construction, mining and agriculture. An ambitious education and research agenda in these areas has the potential to improve our quality of human life. This workshop assembles the top researchers in the fields of robotics, autonomy, and cyber physical systems to discuss the underlying challenges and to produce a report to help inform future education and research investments by academia, government and industry.