Grounding Robot Autonomy in Emotion and Self-awareness

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Sanz;Carlos Hernández;Adolfo Hernando;Jaime Gómez;Julita Bermejo

  • Affiliations:
  • Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 on Advances in Robotics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Much is being done in an attempt to transfer emotional mechanisms from reverse-engineered biology into social robots. There are two basic approaches: the imitative display of emotion --e.g. to intend more human-like robots-- and the provision of architectures with intrinsic emotion --in the hope of enhancing behavioral aspects. This paper focuses on the second approach, describing a core vision regarding the integration of cognitive, emotional and autonomic aspects in social robot systems. This vision has evolved as a result of the efforts in consolidating the models extracted from rat emotion research and their implementation in technical use cases based on a general systemic analysis in the framework of the ICEA and C3 projects. The desire for generality of the approach intends obtaining universal theories of integrated --autonomic, emotional, cognitive-- behavior. The proposed conceptualizations and architectural principles are then captured in a theoretical framework: ASys -- The Autonomous Systems Framework.