Collaborative Research: CCRI: Grand: Quori 2.0: Uniting, Broadening, and Sustaining a Research Community Around a Modular Social Robot Platform

协作研究：CCRI：盛大：Quori 2.0：围绕模块化社交机器人平台联合、扩大和维持研究社区

• 批准号: 2235042
• 负责人: Mark Yim
• 金额: $ 73.79万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-04-01 至 2028-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235042&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CCRI; Grand; Quori

Quori 2.0: Uniting, Broadening, and Sustaining a Research Community Around a Modular Social Robot PlatformOne important challenge for robotics research is the lack of a common robotics platform. Researchers use robots with different shapes, sizes, sensors, and capabilities. This makes it hard to compare results. To address this challenge, this project will build fifty humanoid robots (called "Quori"). Selected research teams across the United States will receive one of these robots and shared software for building a shared infrastructure. This will create a standardized community robotics infrastructure. The researchers who use the Quori robots will connect through online collaboration tools. They will also attend events and trainings for researchers to work together. This will create a community of roboticists who can learn from each other and share ideas. The expected result is the rapid advancement of U.S. robotics research. The project will include new teams of robotics researchers from diverse institutions. Researchers experienced with Quori will mentor the new team members selected. The goal is to grow and diversify robotics and STEM research. This project will speed up the pace of research in robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).A goal of this project is to create a common hardware/software platform for HRI research. Another goal is to build a community of researchers around this platform. This approach was inspired by similar prior research using another robotic platform and the now very popular Robot Operating System (ROS). This project uses lessons learned from the development of ten Quori prototype robots. A small selection of U.S. research teams received these ten Quori robots to use and test. One aim of this work is to improve the design of the robot by enhancing the software drivers. A second aim is to improve the robot's perception, expression, and mobility algorithms. These changes will make it easier to manufacture Quori robots at scale. A third aim is to grow the robotics research community. The project will use a wide range of selection criteria to distribute the robots. This includes university types, locations, and researcher characteristics (e.g., career stage, roles). The selected research teams will receive onboarding and training. They will join community communication tools. There will be resources provided for developing reproducible studies using the Quori robots. A community governance and engagement structure will support the sustainability of the project.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.

Quori 2.0：围绕模块化社会机器人平台的团结，扩展和维持一个研究社区对机器人研究的重要挑战是缺乏通用的机器人平台。研究人员使用具有不同形状，尺寸，传感器和功能的机器人。这使得很难比较结果。为了应对这一挑战，该项目将建立五十个类人形机器人（称为“ Quori”）。美国各地的精选研究团队将获得这些机器人和共享软件之一，以构建共享基础架构。这将创建标准化的社区机器人基础架构。使用Quori机器人的研究人员将通过在线协作工具连接。他们还将参加活动和培训，供研究人员一起工作。这将创建一个可以互相学习并分享想法的机器人社区。预期的结果是美国机器人研究的快速发展。该项目将包括来自不同机构的机器人研究人员的新团队。经验丰富的研究人员将指导新的团队成员选择。目的是发展和多样化机器人技术和STEM研究。该项目将加快机器人和人类机器人互动研究的速度（HRI）。该项目的目标是为HRI研究创建一个常见的硬件/软件平台。另一个目标是在这个平台周围建立一个研究人员社区。这种方法的灵感来自使用另一个机器人平台和现在非常流行的机器人操作系统（ROS）的类似研究的启发。该项目使用了从十个Quori原型机器人的开发中学到的经验教训。一小部分美国研究团队收到了这十个Quori机器人，用于使用和测试。这项工作的目的是通过增强软件驱动程序来改善机器人的设计。第二个目的是改善机器人的感知，表达和移动算法。这些更改将使大规模制造Quori机器人变得更加容易。第三个目标是发展机器人研究界。该项目将使用广泛的选择标准来分发机器人。这包括大学类型，位置和研究人员特征（例如职业阶段，角色）。选定的研究团队将获得入职和培训。他们将加入社区交流工具。将提供用于使用Quori机器人开发可重现研究的资源。社区治理和参与结构将支持该项目的可持续性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。