Constructivist approach to human-robot emotional communication - design of evolutionary function for WAMOEBA-3

Author

Suga, Y. ; Arie, H. ; Ogata, T. ; Sugano, S.

Author_Institution

Humanoid Robotics Institute (HRI), Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

869

Lastpage

884

Abstract

By applying a self-preservation function and communication capability, we investigated the emergence of the emotional behavior of robots to propose an "evaluation function for self-preservation," a "model of endocrine system," and a "MA model." We also developed a new hardware platform, WAMOEBA-3, to install our new knowledge into the robot. WAMOEBA-3, a wheel type, independent robot, wm designed for easy maintenance and customization. As a new function for WAMOEBA-3, we introduced an evolutionary function for the acquisition of reactive motion that uses an interactive evolutionary computation method. We show the resuIts of simulation experiments and discuss real world applications.

Keywords

Endocrine system; Evolutionary computation; Hardware; Humanoid robots; Humans; Informatics; Medical services; Mobile robots; Organisms; Robot sensing systems; Communication; Emotion; Interactive evolutionary computation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanoid Robots, 2004 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8863-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHR.2004.1442691

Filename

1442691