Monday, October 23, 2006

[Readings]Evolving Pet Robot with Emotional Model

Kubota, N. Nojima, Y. Baba, N. Kojima, F. Fukuda, T.

This paper appears in: Evolutionary Computation, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on
Publication Date: 2000
Volume: 2, On page(s): 1231-1237 vol.2
ISBN: 0-7803-6375-2
References Cited: 23
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CEC.2000.870791

In daily, many pet robots have been existed. Writers show a pet robot with emotion model. They discribe the details in the paper. First, they have some sensors in the robot. People can interact with the robot via the sensors. The sensors' signal inputs feed into emotional model which is desing by themself. (The model include emotion, mood, and feelings.) Robots are express their emotion by actions such as moving, dancing, and sounding. Moreover, they use potential field to represent a trick. They try to teach the robot the ``trick''. This is the step of behavioral learning. Finally, they use GA to optimal fuzzy controllers and path planning for mobile robots.

In this paper, everything the robot feels is defined by human. I think the writers model the robot's behavior with emotional concept. But all the thing about the model is predefine without animal phsychology. It really work, but it is pre-define. That is another side of emotional using. I am not focusing this part now.

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