Modeling Consciousness for Autonomous Robot Exploration

  • Authors:
  • Raúl Arrabales Moreno;Agapito Ledezma Espino;Araceli Sanchis De Miguel

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain;Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain;Departamento de Informática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain

  • Venue:
  • IWINAC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international work-conference on The Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, Part I: Bio-inspired Modeling of Cognitive Tasks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This work aims to describe the application of a novel machine consciousness model to a particular problem of unknown environment exploration. This relatively simple problem is analyzed from the point of view of the possible benefits that cognitive capabilities like attention, environment awareness and emotional learning can offer. The model we have developed integrates these concepts into a situated agent control framework, whose first version is being tested in an advanced robotics simulator. The implementation of the relationships and synergies between the different cognitive functionalities of consciousness in the domain of autonomous robotics is also discussed.