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Grounding Robot Autonomy in Emotion and Self-awareness

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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.

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  1. Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

    Ricardo Sanz, Carlos Hernández, Adolfo Hernando, Jaime Gómez & Julita Bermejo

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. Social Robotics Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute, and Edutainment Robotics Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat  & Abdullah Al Manum  & 

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  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, P.O. Box, 117576, Singapore

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  6. Institut für Informatik/I12, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3,, D-85748, Garching b. München, Germany

    Ulrich Rückert

  7. School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box, Brisbane, Australia

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  8. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, P.O. Box, Paderborn, Germany

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  11. Autonomous Agents Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, P.O. Box, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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  12. Dept. of Education in Technology & Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

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Sanz, R., Hernández, C., Hernando, A., Gómez, J., Bermejo, J. (2009). Grounding Robot Autonomy in Emotion and Self-awareness. In: Kim, JH., et al. Advances in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03983-6_7

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