Phase II IUCRC University of Pennsylvania: Center for Robots & Sensors for the Human Well-Being

NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）机器人和传感器人类福祉（ROSE-HUB）第二阶段将在培育和加速机器人和智能传感器技术在国民经济关键的广泛应用领域的部署方面发挥领导作用，例如，交通、能源、物流、制造、基础设施和社会福祉，例如，在医疗保健方面。ROSE-HUB中心将促进中心大学的研究人员与来自行业、政府、其他大学和非营利组织的合作伙伴合作，寻求解决关键现实挑战的方案。Penn ROSE-HUB基地将利用计算机视觉、空中和海上自动驾驶车辆、传感和人工智能方面的进步，开发用于环境监测和测绘的新型机器人和传感系统。 有针对性的应用包括提高农业产量和土地管理，对关键基础设施进行检查和健康监测，对全球定位系统无法覆盖的地点进行监测，对主要水道进行水质监测，以及对建筑工地的工作进度进行评估。 该系统将被开发，以平衡操作的及时性，成本和环境表示的准确性。 这些活动将产生针对航空和海洋应用的新型机器人和传感系统。中心研究将集中在应用领域，包括身体/精神健康，机器人和传感器系统，以帮助人类，用于监测和数据收集的创新机器人设计，精准农业，建筑过程数字化，智能交通系统等。研究将影响：a）通过将研究插入产品线的工业成员，B）通过探索新的想法和应用领域的研究人员，c）通过提供实践经验和未来就业潜力的学生，以及d）学术课程。此外，每年的技术日将吸引来自代表性不足的群体的中学生从事工程学，而针对当地K-16机构的推广计划将鼓励他们追求工程学教育。该项目将创建硬件和软件，并从固定和移动机器人、无人机（UAV）和传感器收集实验数据。将建立一个数据管理和传播数据库。软件组件包括：（i）系统框架软件（例如，操作机电系统的低级软件，即，机器人、无人机等），(ii)用于规划、控制、传感和学习算法的软件，（iii）用于演示试验台和原型的软件。数据保留期为裁决结束后五年。http://rosehubiucrc.github.io该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Robots and Sensors for Human Well-Being (ROSE-HUB) Phase II will play a leadership role in nurturing and acceler-ating the deployment of robotics and intelligent sensor technologies in a wide range of application domains key to the national economy, e.g., transportation, energy, logistics, manufacturing, and infrastructure and the well-being of the society, e.g., in healthcare. The ROSE-HUB center will facilitate center university researchers to work with partners from industry, government, other universities, and non-profit organizations to seek solutions to critical real-world challenges. The Penn ROSE-HUB site will leverage advances in computer vision, aerial and marine autono-mous vehicles, sensing, and artificial intelligence to develop novel robotic and sensing systems for environmental monitoring and mapping. Targeted applications include the improvement of agricultural yields and land management, inspection and health monitoring of critical infrastruc-ture GPS denied locations, water quality monitoring in major waterways, and assessment of work progress in construction sites. The systems will be developed to balance operation timeli-ness, cost, and the accuracy of the environmental representation. These activities will result in novel robotic and sensing systems aimed at aerial and marine applications.Center research will focus on applications including physical/mental health, robots and sensor systems to assist humans, innovative robot designs for monitoring and data collection, precision agriculture, digitization of construction processes, intelligent transportation systems, etc. Re-search will impact: a) industrial members by inserting research into product pipelines, b) re-searchers by exploring new ideas and application domains, c) students by providing hands-on experience and future employment potential, and d) academic curricula. Additionally, annual technology days will attract middle school students from underrepresented groups to engineer-ing, and outreach programs to local K-16 institutions will encourage pursuit of engineering educa-tion.The project will create hardware and software and collect experimental data from fixed and mo-bile robots, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and sensors. A database for data management and dissemination will be established. The software components include: (i) system framework software (e.g., low-level software that operates electro-mechanical systems, i.e., robots, UAVs, etc.), (ii) software for planning, control, sensing, and learning algorithms, (iii) software for demon-stration testbeds and prototypes. The data retention period is five years after the conclusion of the award. The data will be released as it becomes available to the http://rosehubiucrc.github.io site.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.