REU Site: Robots in the Real World

机器人技术是一个非常多学科的领域，它融合了机械工程、电气工程、计算机科学等领域的思想。机器人专家必须考虑系统的各个方面，从机械设计到规划，以了解与机器人互动的人的需求；因此，对许多本科生来说，成为一名机器人专家所需的广泛技能既具有挑战性，又丰富了这个领域。尽管有这样的吸引力，但阻碍大学生参与机器人研究的障碍经常存在，包括国内机构缺乏机器人基础设施，以及工程领域代表性不足的学生群体面临的准入挑战。此外，研究本身（通常在现实世界和/或长期环境中与实际机器人系统一起工作）对于机器人在日常用例中得到采用至关重要。该项目寻求将成功的“现实世界中的机器人”REU站点延续到第四次迭代，对上述多样性和包容性主题进行更新，更新程序应用和评估的方法，并增加最后的演示研讨会。在这个REU网站的本科生将从事积极的研究项目，在广泛的机器人研究领域做出新的发现，从机器人建模到理解人类心理学，因为它适用于与机器人的互动。夏季项目工作将属于俄勒冈州立大学机器人学院和附属机构的领域，所有项目都将集中在机器人研究方面的贡献，包括在现实环境中部署的物理机器人。这些项目包括（但不限于）用于科学探索的人-机器人团队、机器人辅助老年人护理和下一代机器人抓取。REU的学生体验将包括在全国顶尖机器人项目之一的主要教师的监督下制定和追求机器人研究问题。历史上，超过50名项目参与者在这个REU网站上共同撰写了同行评审的学术论文，这些论文基于他们的夏季研究，在该领域推进了知识的状态。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作提供支持。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。

Robotics is an extremely multidisciplinary field that incorporates ideas from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and beyond. Roboticists must consider aspects of systems from mechanical design to planning to understanding the needs of people who interact with robots; as such, the broad range of skills needed to be a roboticist makes it both a challenging and enriching field for many undergraduates. Despite this appeal, obstacles often interfere with undergraduate participation in robotics research, including lack of robotics infrastructure at home institutions and access challenges for groups of students who are underrepresented in engineering. Further, the research itself (which works with actual robotic systems in often real-world and/or long-term settings) is essential for robots to find adoption in day-to-day use cases. This project seeks to continue the successful “Robots in the Real World” REU Site for a fourth iteration, making updates to particularly address the above diversity and inclusion topics, update methods for program applications and evaluations, and add a final presentation symposium.Undergraduate students at this REU Site will work on active research projects, contributing to new findings in a wide range of robotics research areas, from modeling robots to understanding human psychology as it applies to interactions with robots. The summer project work will fall under the domains of Oregon State University robotics faculty and affiliates, and all projects will focus on robotics research contributions that involve physical robots deployed in real-world settings. These projects include (but are not limited to) human-robot teaming for science exploration, robot-assisted older adult care, and next-generation robot grasping. The REU student experience will involve formulating and pursuing robotics research questions under the supervision of leading faculty in one of the top robotics programs in the country. Historically, over 50 program participants in this REU site have co-authored peer-reviewed academic papers that advanced the state of knowledge in the field based on their summer research.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.