Design of an Architecture Based on Emotions for an Autonomous Robot

Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations

Volume

Papers from the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

With the emergence of personal robots recently the need to create an easier form of human-robot interaction has become apparent. Emotions will play an important role in this interaction. In the proposed architecture emotions are generated from the evaluation of the wellbeing of the robot. Moreover, behavior selection mainly depends on a specific drive and emotions have a supervisory role.