The conscious mind: in search of a fundamental theory
The conscious mind: in search of a fundamental theory
Formation of morphology and morpho-function in a linear-cluster robotic system
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats 5
Variable Structure and Lyapunov Control
Variable Structure and Lyapunov Control
Making Evolution an Offer It Can't Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass
ECAL '01 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Who Needs Emotions: The Brain Meets the Robot (Series in Affective Science)
Who Needs Emotions: The Brain Meets the Robot (Series in Affective Science)
Evolutionary Body Building: Adaptive Physical Designs for Robots
Artificial Life
On Cognition as Dynamical Coupling: An Analysis of Behavioral Attractor Dynamics
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
The Neuromodulatory System: A Framework for Survival and Adaptive Behavior in a Challenging World
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Morphological plasticity: environmentally driven morphogenesis
ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Towards a theoretical foundation for morphological computation with compliant bodies
Biological Cybernetics
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We argue for a morphofunctional approach to emotion modeling that can also aid the design of adaptive embodied systems. By morphofunctionality we target the online change in both structure and function of a system, and relate it to the notion of physiology and emotion in animals. Besides the biological intuition that emotions serve the function of preparing the body, we investigate the control requirements that any morphofunctional autonomous system must face. We argue that changes in morphology modify the dynamics of the system, thus forming a variable structure system VSS. We introduce some of the techniques of control theory to deal with VSSs and derive a twofold hypothesis: first, the loose coupling between two control systems, in charge of action and action readiness, respectively; second, the formation of patterned metacontrol. Emotional phenomena can be seen as emergent from this control setup.