📋 Tender Overview
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
09/2022
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08/2027
Status Ongoing
Geo-spatial type Infrastructure Node
Total project cost €1 499 999
EU Contribution €1 499 999
Project Acronym INTERACT
STRIA Roadmaps
Connected and automated transport (CAT)
Transport mode
Multimodal icon
Transport policies
Societal/Economic issues
Transport sectors
Passenger transport, Freight transport
Call for proposal ERC-2021-STG
Link to CORDIS
CORDIS ID: 101041863
Background & Policy context
Mobile robots can move around in the environment and are not bound to one physical location. While much progress has been made in the field, these robots are still not capable of seamless interaction in human-populated environments. The EU-funded INTERACT project aims to address this challenge. Taking a holistic view on the interaction of mobile robots and humans, the project aims to provide mobile robots with the ability to reason about their coordination with other agents, evaluate associated risks, continuously reassess their environment and take appropriate actions to achieve their tasks. The project’s results will have significant impacts on automated processes in industrial and urban settings.
Objectives
Thanks to developments in computing, sensing and communication technology, great progress has been made in the control of robots affixed to the factory floor, mobile robots in controlled environments, and self-driving cars in medium-complexity environments. However, mobile robots are not yet capable of seamless interaction in human populated environments, primarily due to the high complexity of modeling and reasoning over the effect that robot actions have on other robots and humans, and the inherent uncertainty. Humans rely on intuition, namely the ability to understand interaction instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. However, for control systems it is notoriously difficult to model intuition, and to do so with safety guarantees with respect to physical constraints. My goal is to provide mobile robots with the ability to reason about their coordination with other agents and the associated risks, take appropriate actions and continuously reassess.
