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: 2235043
• 负责人: William Smart
• 金额: $ 416.18万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 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=2235043&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 significant challenge for robotics research is the lack of a common robot with which to work. It is often difficult to compare results if researchers are using different types of robots that often have different shapes, sizes, sensors, and capabilities. To address this challenge, fifty humanoid robots (called "Quori") will be built. The Quori robots developed will be distributed to research teams across the United States. These robots will serve as a standardized robot platform to create a robotics community infrastructure to advance scientific robotics research. This effort builds on the success of a previous project that designed, built, and tested ten prototype Quori robots, and awarded them to a small selection of U.S. research teams. The current project incorporates the lessons learned from the prototype Quori development to improve the design of the robot, adapt it to make it easier to manufacture at scale, and distribute it to a broader set of research teams. The project connects students and researchers who use the Quori robots through online collaboration tools, regular events, and opportunities to work together. This will build a community of roboticists across the country that can learn from each others' work, share ideas, and allow for rapid advancement of research in robotics. A focus of this project is to include new teams of diverse robotics researchers and pair them with more experienced robotics community members. This will increase the diversity of researchers involved in robotics and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) research in the United States. This project will accelerate the pace of research progress, especially in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). This award builds on a successful previous project that designed, implemented, and deployed a limited number of prototype Quori humanoid robots to HRI research teams across the country. The project will use feedback from this initial prototype deployment to redesign the robots to make them better suited for large-scale manufacturing. The central goal of the project is to establish a common hardware and software platform for HRI research and to build a community of researchers around this robot platform. The efforts are strongly influenced by the PR2 Beta Program at Willow Garage, which built a connected community of researchers around the world using the PR2 robot and the now very popular Robot Operating System (ROS). The development of a common hardware and software platform infrastructure, allows students and researchers to rapidly and easily share results and perform replication studies to advance robotics technology in the country. The robots will be distributed based on an inclusive selection criteria that considers the diversity of university types, locations, career stage of researchers, and other factors. The project will build an inclusive community of students and researchers using Quori 2.0 robots, intentionally focusing on mechanisms to bring in new community members, broadening the diversity of the robotics research community, and ensuring they are supported as use the Quori 2.0 platform.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大挑战是缺乏可以使用的常见机器人。如果研究人员使用不同类型的机器人通常具有不同形状，尺寸，传感器和功能的机器人，通常很难比较结果。为了应对这一挑战，将建造五十个类人形机器人（称为“ Quori”）。开发的Quori机器人将分发给美国各地的研究团队。这些机器人将用作标准化的机器人平台，以创建机器人社区基础设施来推进科学机器人研究。这项工作以先前设计，构建和测试的十个原型Quori机器人的成功为基础，并将其授予了一小部分美国研究团队。当前的项目结合了从原型Quori开发中学到的经验教训，以改善机器人的设计，对其进行调整，以使其更容易大规模制造，并将其分配给更广泛的研究团队。该项目将通过在线协作工具，常规活动和合作机会使用Quori机器人的学生和研究人员联系。这将在全国范围内建立一个机器人社区，可以从彼此的工作中学习，分享想法并允许快速发展机器人技术。该项目的重点是包括各种机器人研究人员的新团队，并将其与经验丰富的机器人社区成员配对。这将增加美国参与机器人和STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）研究的研究人员的多样性。该项目将加速研究进度的速度，尤其是在人类机器人相互作用（HRI）领域。该奖项是基于一个成功的先前项目，该项目设计，实施和部署了有限的Quori类人生物机器人，向全国的HRI研究团队设计了有限的原型Quori人类机器人。该项目将使用此初始原型部署中的反馈来重新设计机器人，以使其更适合大规模制造。该项目的核心目标是为HRI研究建立一个共同的硬件和软件平台，并在此机器人平台周围建立一个研究人员社区。这些努力受到Willow Garage的PR2 Beta计划的强烈影响，该计划使用PR2机器人和现在非常受欢迎的机器人操作系统（ROS）建立了世界各地的研究人员社区。开发常见的硬件和软件平台基础架构，使学生和研究人员能够快速，轻松地共享结果并进行复制研究，以推动该国的机器人技术。机器人将根据包容性的选择标准进行分发，该标准考虑了大学类型，位置，研究人员的职业阶段以及其他因素的多样性。该项目将使用Quori 2.0机器人建立一个包括学生和研究人员的社区，并有意侧重于引入新社区成员，扩大机器人研究社区的多样性的机制，并确保他们得到QUORI 2.0平台的支持。反映了NSF的法定任务，并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值得支持。