Travel Funds for 15th Dynamic Walking Conference; Hawley, Pennsylvania; May 11-14, 2020

这项资助通过为研究生、博士后研究员和初级教师提供资金，前往2020年5月举行的动态行走会议，支持动态系统、机器人和控制领域的下一代研究人员。动态行走会议的目的是提供深入了解腿部运动和运动动力学的基本原理，包括机械和生物。关键和重叠的兴趣领域是自主行走机器人的设计和控制，人类和动物的康复，以及假肢和外骨骼设备的设计和控制。这个年度会议包括一个广泛的和不断增长的机器人专家和生物力学家社区。它鼓励新的和突破性的成果，并旨在提供一个论坛来讨论和分享新的想法。这笔拨款将用于扩大传统上在主要机器人和生物力学会议上代表性不足的群体的参与，特别是女性、代表性不足的少数民族和来自通常没有资金前往这些会议的大学的研究人员。这笔赠款特别侧重于在“动态步行2020”会议上扩大参与和提高包容性。动态行走是一个单轨会议，专注于与人类，动物和机器人行走和跑步相关的所有事情。这包括建模系统能量学，稳定性和控制；发展预测原则和动态模型；健康患者、中风患者、截肢患者、骨关节炎患者或其他活动受限患者的临床评估和步态恢复在概念框架中分析经验数据；以及机器人、假肢和外骨骼的设计和评估。动态行走的核心主题包括能量学、稳定性和控制、预测原理和模型、动态建模、概念框架中的经验数据以及机器人的成功和失败。参与者包括学者和工业设计师，其中既有研究人类和动物腿运动的研究人员，也有设计和控制步行机器人的研究人员。动态行走的一个目标是将不同领域的研究人员聚集在一起，尤其是生物力学家和机器人专家。尽管这两个群体对步行有着共同的兴趣，但他们通常缺乏共同的词汇和工具集。因此，会议的中心焦点是弥合这两个学科，并最终打破障碍。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 grant supports the next generation of researchers in dynamic systems, robotics and control by providing funding for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty to travel to the Dynamic Walking Conference being held in May 2020. The aim of Dynamic Walking Conference is to provide insight into the fundamental principles that underlie legged locomotion and the dynamics of movement, both mechanical and biological. Critical, and overlapping, areas of interest are the design and control of autonomous walking robots, rehabilitation of humans and animals, and the design and control of prosthetic and exoskeletal devices. This annual conference includes a broad and growing community of roboticists and biomechanists. It encourages new and breaking results and aims to provide a forum for discussion and sharing of new ideas. This grant will be used to broaden participation from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in major robotics and biomechanics conferences, particularly from women, underrepresented minorities, and researchers from universities which do not typically have the funding to travel to these events.This grant is specifically focused on broadening participation and greater inclusivity at the Dynamic Walking 2020 conference. Dynamic Walking is a single-track conference that focuses on all things related to walking and running of humans, animals, and robots. This including modeling system energetics, stability, and control; developing predictive principles and dynamic models; clinical evaluation and gait recovery for healthy and stroke, amputee, osteoarthritic, or other limited-mobility patients; analyzing empirical data in a conceptual framework; as well as design and evaluation of robots, prosthetics, and exoskeletons. Topics central to dynamic walking include energetics, stability and control, predictive principles and models, dynamic modeling, empirical data in a conceptual framework, and robot successes and failures. Participants include both academics and industry designers with a mixture of researchers studying human and animal legged locomotion and those designing and controlling walking robots. One goal of Dynamic walking is to bring together researchers from different fields, especially biomechanists and roboticists. Despite sharing a common interest in walking, these two groups typically lack a shared vocabulary and set of tools. As a result, a central focus for the conference is bridging these two disciplines and, ultimately, breaking down barriers.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.