The 14th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR'20) Student Travel Awards

第 14 届机器人算法基础国际研讨会 (WAFR20) 学生旅行奖

• 批准号: 2011778
• 负责人: Dylan Shell
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011778&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 14th; International; Workshop; Algorithmic; Foundations

The award will support student attendance of the three-day single-track Fourteenth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), along with mentoring activities associated with the event. The conference will be held in Oulu, Finland, between June 15th and June 17th in 2020 at the Sokos Hotel Eden, two miles from the city center of Oulu and the supporting local institution the University of Oulu. The funds will be used to provide financial support to help approximately 15 U.S. students to attend the WAFR 2020, helping to ensure good representation of students from U.S. institutions at this leading research venue. Participation in the conference will boost motivation and excitement for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students as they continue their research journey into the foundational aspects of robotics.The purpose of this grant for student travel to enable U.S. students, who otherwise might be unable to attend the WAFR conference, to present their work and forge connections with colleagues from around the world. In addition to paper presentations, the event will feature 3–5 keynote presentations by influential and internationally renowned roboticists. These presentations will provide succinct, first-hand information on historical perspectives, current state-of-the-art, and future trends of robotic planning, optimization and control, computational geometry and algorithms. With a long-established history, in the past WAFR has been among the best venues to focus on fundamental computer science topics and technical questions which underpin robotics, being known as the place where several foundational breakthroughs were presented in the past. In particular, themes covered by WAFR submissions and presentations previously have addressed fundamental algorithmic issues, such as complexity, completeness, machine learning, and probabilistic reasoning. Work has also been presented with applicability to manufacturing, legged locomotion, distributed robotics, human-robot interaction, surgical robots, and intelligent prosthetics, and even domains beyond the traditional scope of robotics, e.g., computational biology, computer animation, sensor networks. These match NSF's robotics priorities very closely.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.

该奖项将支持针对机器人技术算法基础（WAFR）的为期三天的单轨国际研讨会的学生参加，以及与活动相关的心理活动。该会议将于6月15日至6月17日在2020年6月17日至6月17日在伊甸园的伊甸园（Sokos Hotel Eden）举行，距离奥卢市中心和支持当地机构的奥卢大学（University of Oulu）。这些资金将用于提供财政支持，以帮助大约15名美国学生参加WAFR 2020，以确保在这个领先的研究场所对美国机构的学生良好代表。参加会议的人会在继续研究机器人技术的基本方面，为研究生和高级本科生而激发动力和兴奋。这笔赠款的学生旅行的目的是使美国学生（否则他们可能无法参加WAFR会议）提供工作并与来自世界各地的同事建立联系。除纸面演示外，该活动还将由有影响力和国际知名的机器人主义者进行3-5个主题演讲。这些演示文稿将提供有关历史观点，机器人计划，优化和控制，计算几何和算法的历史观点，最新和未来趋势的简洁，第一手信息。在过去的历史上，WAFR一直是专注于基本计算机科学主题和技术问题的最佳场所之一，这些问题是基于机器人技术的基础，被称为过去几个基本突破的地方。特别是，WAFR提交和演示文稿涵盖的主题已经解决了基本算法问题，例如复杂性，完整性，机器学习和概率推理。还介绍了适用于制造，腿部机车，分布式机器人技术，人机互动，手术机器人和智能假肢，甚至是传统机器人范围之外的领域，例如计算生物学，计算机动画，传感器网络。这些奖项非常紧密地匹配NSF的机器人技术优先事项。该奖项反映了NSF的坚定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估获得支持。