Inclusion @ Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018

该项目支持27名机器人专业学生的旅行，这些学生来自传统上代表性不足的群体，包括少数族裔和残疾人。研究人员将参加2018年6月26日至30日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行的机器人：科学与系统(RSS)会议及其相关研讨会。这些学生将通过与资深博士生和博士后配对以及参加由RSS会议主席主持的导师早餐会进行指导。通过将来自代表性不足群体的早期职业研究人员暴露在这种类型的智力环境中，他们将能够更好地处于机器人领域，并对在该领域产生影响所需的研究类型和质量有更好的想法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project supports travel for 27 students in robotics from traditionally underrepresented groups, including minorities and people with disabilities. The researchers will participate in the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, along with its associated workshops, which runs June 26-30, 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA. The students will be mentored both through being paired with senior PhD students and postdocs and participation in a mentorship breakfast led by the RSS conference chair. By exposing early career researchers from underrepresented groups to this type of intellectual environment, they will be better able to be situated in the robotics field and get better ideas for the type and quality of research needed to have impact in the field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.