REU Site: Robotics and Autonomous Systems

REU 网站：机器人和自主系统

• 批准号: 2051117
• 负责人: Stefanos Nikolaidis
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051117&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Robotics; Autonomous; Systems

The goal of this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) is for undergraduate students to participate in research projects that cross-cut multiple areas of robotics and autonomous systems, including socially assistive robotics, robot learning, networked robotics, and robotics data processing. The participating faculty mentors span the spectrum of cutting-edge research topics in robotics and are well established in their fields. Students will gain research experience in solving some of the most challenging modern robotics and autonomy problems and get exposure to robotics research beyond the scope of the REU site, through seminars by other USC faculty and external site visits, to aid in planning their next career steps. Ultimately, the goal is to instill a sense of belonging to the research community into a cohort of undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented groups.The proposed site will train nine undergraduates for 10 weeks each year, with the specific goal of attracting participants from three key populations: 1) academically talented students from traditionally underserved colleges and universities; 2) women; and, 3) underrepresented minorities. The students in the REU program will pursue authentic research projects in collaboration with PhD students and REU Site faculty mentors. The projects will be carefully designed to ensure that students can achieve relatively independent status as the program progresses and as they learn about the research process and their area of robotics. The REU site will employ a comprehensive utilization-focused evaluation plan that includes ongoing assessment of programmatic processes and outcomes. The REU site evaluation plan will provide formative feedback to the PIs in a timely fashion so that data-informed decisions can be made toward program improvement through the deployment of pre- and mid-program evaluation surveys of student participants.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.

本科生研究体验 (REU) 的目标是让本科生参与跨机器人和自主系统多个领域的研究项目，包括社交辅助机器人、机器人学习、网络机器人和机器人数据处理。参与的教师导师涵盖了机器人技术的前沿研究课题，并且在各自的领域享有盛誉。 学生将获得解决一些最具挑战性的现代机器人技术和自主问题的研究经验，并通过南加州大学其他教师的研讨会和外部实地考察，接触 REU 站点范围之外的机器人研究，以帮助规划他们的下一步职业生涯。最终，我们的目标是向传统上代表性不足的群体的本科生灌输对研究社区的归属感。拟议的网站每年将培训 9 名本科生，为期 10 周，具体目标是吸引来自三个关键人群的参与者：1）来自传统上服务不足的学院和大学的学术才华横溢的学生； 2）女性； 3) 代表性不足的少数群体。 REU 项目的学生将与博士生和 REU 站点教师导师合作开展真实的研究项目。这些项目将经过精心设计，以确保学生在项目进展以及了解研究过程及其机器人领域时能够获得相对独立的地位。 REU 站点将采用以综合利用率为中心的评估计划，其中包括对规划流程和结果的持续评估。 REU 现场评估计划将及时向 PI 提供形成性反馈，以便通过部署学生参与者的项目前和项目中期评估调查，做出基于数据的决策，以改进项目。该网站由国防部与 NSF REU 计划合作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。