MRI: Acquisition of a Multimodal Collaborative Robot System (MCROS) to Support Cross-Disciplinary Human-Centered Research and Education at Montclair State University

MRI：采购多模态协作机器人系统 (MCROS) 以支持蒙特克莱尔州立大学以人为本的跨学科研究和教育

• 批准号: 2117308
• 负责人: Weitian Wang
• 金额: $ 28.97万
• 依托单位: Montclair State University
• 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: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117308&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Multimodal; Collaborative; Robot

This proposal addresses the current need for collaborative robots in hazardous environments (e.g., hazardous chemical experiments), as well as transmission of the latest studies in smart manufacturing (where their absence limit knowledge discovery). Claiming that the role of robots has changed from “robots in a cage model” to the “human interaction model in a shared environment,” the investigators aim to acquire a robotic system (MCROS) to support human-centered science and engineering interdisciplinary research and education. Utilizing two collaborative manipulators, an omnidirectional mobile base, a control and computing unit, and multimodal human-robot interfaces (including 3D vision, 3D Lidar, GPS, and F/T sensing), the investigators expect to make the most efficient use of the MCROS, advancing a wide range of transformative and diverse research distributed across four colleges and 12 academic units (departments/institute centering at the institute MCROS). They cover 5 focus areas:- Intelligence systems and advanced computing,- Ecology and chemistry science,- Smart urban agriculture and food science,- Human factors engineering and social sciences, and- Interactive learning.The MCROS are expected to:- Provide a State-of-the-art robot platform to accelerate a wide-range of research projects.- Expand innovative collaborative research across diverse departments and foster potential funding opportunities to exploit and create new cross-disciplinary knowledge.- Enable fundamental research in multiple science and engineering areas utilizing high productivity approaches enabled by the robot collaboration.- Establish cost-effective and high-quality solutions, enabled by the developments in smart manufacturing, interactive learning, and smart urban agriculture, that in turn is enabled by the human-robot collaboration model. The institution will offer training and prepare careers using AI and robotics, “possibly benefitting the national economy.”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.

该提案旨在解决当前在危险环境（例如危险化学实验）中对合作机器人的需求，以及智能制造中最新研究的传播（它们的缺失限制了知识发现）。调查人员声称机器人的作用已从“笼子模型中的机器人”变为“共享环境中的人类互动模型”，旨在获取机器人系统（MCRO）以支持以人为中心的科学和工程跨学科研究和教育。利用两个协作操作器，一个全向移动基础，一个控制和计算单元以及多模式的人类机器人界面（包括3D视觉，3D LIDAR，GPS，GPS和F/T传感器），调查人员希望最有效地利用MCROS，并促进了跨四个学分的范围，并在四个学术界中促进了四个学术的范围，并设立了12个学术界（ MCRO）。它们涵盖了5个重点领域： - 智能系统和高级计算， - 生态学和化学科学， - 智能的城市农业和食品科学， - 人为因素工程和社会科学以及 - 交互式学习。预计MCROS： - 提供一个最先进的机器人平台，为扩大跨越的研究跨越跨越的知识范围，以增强广泛的研究项目。通过机器人协作启用了高生产力方法，在多个科学和工程领域实现了基础研究。-建立具有成本效益和高质量的解决方案，这是由智能制造，互动性学习和智能城市农业的发展实现的，这反过来又由人类机构合作模型来实现。该机构将使用AI和机器人技术提供培训和准备职业，“可能使国民经济受益”。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。

项目成果

JUST TELL ME: A Robot-assisted E-health Solution for People with Lower-extremity Disability

请告诉我：针对下肢残障人士的机器人辅助电子健康解决方案

• DOI: 10.1109/icara56516.2023.10125947
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Robotics and Applications (ICARA
• 作者: Coutras, Alexander;Obidat, Omar;Zhu, Michelle;Wang, Weitian
• 通讯作者: Wang, Weitian

A POMDP-based Robot-Human Trust Model for Human-Robot Collaboration

基于 POMDP 的人机协作机器人人信任模型

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: and Intelligent Systems
• 作者: Tilloo, Pallavi;Parron, Jesse;Obidat, Omar;Zhu, Michelle;Wang, Weitian
• 通讯作者: Wang, Weitian

A Trust-Assist Framework for Human–Robot Co-Carry Tasks

人类与机器人共同执行任务的信任辅助框架

• DOI: 10.3390/robotics12020030
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Robotics
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Hannum, Corey;Li, Rui;Wang, Weitian
• 通讯作者: Wang, Weitian

Ready or Not? A Robot-Assisted Crop Harvest Solution in Smart Agriculture Contexts

• DOI: 10.1109/smartcomp58114.2023.00088
• 发表时间: 2023-06
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
• 作者: Thai Thao Nguyen;Jesse Parron;Omar Obidat;A. R. Tuininga;Weitian Wang

Web Perspectives in Robotics Applications: Commonsense Knowledge, Autonomous Vehicles and Human-Robot Collaboration

机器人应用中的网络视角：常识知识、自动驾驶车辆和人机协作

• DOI: 10.1145/3583849.3583853
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
• 作者: Conti, Christopher J.;Varde, Aparna S.;Wang, Weitian
• 通讯作者: Wang, Weitian