Welcome to the CHRIS web site!

The EU FP7 project CHRIS (Cooperative Human Robot Interaction Systems FP7 215805) was launched in 2008 and will run for 4 years. The overall goal of project is to address the fundamental issues which enable safe Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

CHRIS aims to:

• Understand how human cooperative action occurs both cognitively and physically within a set of chosen representative application domains
• Encapsulate these elements and implement them on a robotic platform
• Assess the safety of human-robot interactions from the aspect of physical safety, behavioural safety, and cognitive understanding, and investigate ways of implementing these as robust features in robotic platforms
• Develop the engineering principles required to ensure the robot platform is capable of controlled intelligent movement, both gross and dexterous, to perform cooperative tasks with humans
• Formal verification for the low-level motor controller code, good engineering practice for the higher levels, special tests to verify the quality of the inputs from sensors

The CHRIS team:

The CHRIS consortium brings together more than 30 researchers from 5 institutes and 4 European countries.