QMUL EPSRC Core Equipment Bid: Q-Arena - a multidisciplinary research environment for human-centred robotics and interactive engineering

为我们的研究人员提供世界一流的支持和创造世界一流的研究环境是玛丽女王2030年研究与创新战略的三大支柱的关键组成部分。QMUL继续投入大量资金支持EPSRC范围内的研究人员，并使他们能够使用最先进的研究基础设施和设备。我们打算用这笔拨款投资建立Q-Arena，这是一个旗舰的多学科创新和实验测试空间，支持研究人员跨学科和组织边界工作。这将促进许多学科领域突破性技术的开创性发展，包括自主机器人系统、面向老龄化社会和未来移动出行的人机交互和触觉交互、面向人机交互的虚拟现实、人工智能和数据，以及EPSRC主题的新兴领域，以确保世界领先的研究成果和经济社会影响。

Providing world-class support and creating a world-class research environment for our researchers are key components of three pillars that inform Queen Mary's 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy. QMUL continues to make significant capital investment to support researchers within the EPSRC remit and to enable access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and equipment. We intend to use this grant to invest in establishment of Q-Arena, a flagship multi-disciplinary innovation and experimental testing space for supporting researchers to work across disciplinary and organisational boundaries. This will boost pioneering developments of disruptive technologies in many subject areas including autonomous robotic systems, human-robot interaction and haptic interaction for the ageing society and future of mobility, virtual reality for human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence and data, and emerging areas in EPSRC themes to ensure world-leading research outputs and economic and societal impact.