National Robotics Initiative (NRI) PI Meeting 2020 Technical Program Organization

该奖项将支持组织2011年启动的国家机器人计划（NRI）的年度首席研究员（PI）会议。PI会议将汇集活跃的NRI参与者社区，就智力挑战和教育、技术转让和一般推广方面的最佳实践提供跨项目协调。这项活动还将建立一个知识库，说明NRI项目所探索的研究思想和取得的里程碑。该会议计划于2020年2月在华盛顿特区附近举行，为期两天。该形式将包括出席项目的pi在其最后一年的演讲，所有其他项目的海报会议，主题演讲和小组讨论。这个奖项是为了组织下一个NRI PI会议。该会议促进NRI研究人员之间的传播和偶然合作。该组织包括研究生和pi的参与和BPC招聘活动。此奖项只适用于会议组织。会议后勤和设施租赁由另一个奖项处理。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the organization of the annual Principal Investigators (PI) meeting for the National Robotics Initiative (NRI), which was launched in 2011. The PI meeting will bring together the community of active NRI participants to provide cross-project coordination of intellectual challenges and best practices in education, technology transfer and general outreach. This activity will also establish a repository illustrating the research ideas explored and milestones achieved by the NRI projects. The meeting is planned for two days in February of 2020 in the vicinity of Washington DC. The format will include presentations by the attending PIs of projects in their final year, a poster session with all other projects, keynote speeches, and panel discussions.This award is to organize the next NRI PI meeting. The meeting promotes dissemination and serendipitous collaboration amongst NRI researchers. The organization includes participation and BPC recruitment activities for graduate students as well as PIs. This award is for the meeting organization only. Meeting logistics and facility rental is handled by a separate award.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.