Phase II I/UCRC WPI: Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being

II 期 I/UCRC WPI：人类福祉机器人和传感器中心

• 批准号: 1939061
• 负责人: Jing Xiao
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phase; II; UCRC; WPI; Center

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 accelerating 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 research foci of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) ROSE-HUB projects strive to make fundamental advances both in key technology components, such as algorithms, sensors, and robots, and in integrative systems. The objectives are to advance mobility, manipulation, robot learning, human-machine interaction, and multi-agent coordination capabilities in general and in the context of relevant applications by collaborating with industrial partners. Methodologies will be developed to balance real-time operation and computational cost or energy while providing high-level semantic information of task environments through integrating perception, planning, and learning. Novel robot and sensor systems will also be developed, especially soft robots, sensors, and assistive devices.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. Research will impact: a) industrial members by inserting research into product pipelines, b) researchers 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 engineering, and outreach programs to local K-16 institutions will encourage pursuit of engineering education. The project will create hardware and software and collect experimental data from fixed and mobile 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 demonstration 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.

NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）人类福祉机器人和传感器（ROSE-HUB）第二期将在培育和加速机器人和智能传感器技术的广泛部署方面发挥领导作用对国民经济至关重要的应用领域，例如交通、能源、物流、制造和基础设施以及社会福祉，例如医疗保健。 ROSE-HUB 中心将促进中心大学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，寻求解决现实世界关键挑战的解决方案。伍斯特理工学院 (WPI) ROSE-HUB 的研究重点项目致力于在算法、传感器和机器人等关键技术组件以及集成系统方面取得根本性进展。目标是通过与工业合作伙伴合作，在相关应用的背景下总体上提高移动性、操纵性、机器人学习、人机交互和多智能体协调能力。将开发方法来平衡实时操作和计算成本或能量，同时通过集成感知、规划和学习来提供任务环境的高级语义信息。还将开发新型机器人和传感器系统，特别是软机器人、传感器和辅助设备。中心研究将重点关注身体/心理健康、辅助人类的机器人和传感器系统、用于监测和数据收集的创新机器人设计、精确度等应用。研究将影响：a) 将研究成果融入产品管道中，从而影响工业成员；b) 研究人员探索新的想法和应用领域；c) 为学生提供实践经验和未来发展就业潜力，以及 d) 学术课程。此外，每年一度的技术日将吸引来自弱势群体的中学生学习工程学，而针对当地 K-16 机构的推广计划将鼓励人们追求工程教育。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) 用于演示测试台和原型的软件。数据保留期为获奖结束后五年。该数据将在 http://rosehubiucrc.github.io 网站上发布。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。