Title

Multilevel Emotion Modeling For Autonomous Agents

Abstract

In this article, we propose the design of sensory motor level as part of a three-layered agent architecture inspired from the Multilevel Process Theory of Emotion (Leventhal 1979, 1980; Leventhal and Scherer, 1987). Our project aims at modeling emotions on an autonomous embodied agent, Petra, a more robust robot than our previous prototype - Cherry. Our robot has been equipped with sonar and vision for obstacle avoidance as well as vision for face recognition, which are used when she roams around the hallway to engage in social interactions with humans. The sensory motor level receives and processes inputs and produces emotion-like states without any further willful planning or learning. We describe: (1) the psychological theory of emotion which inspired our design, (2) our proposed agent architecture, (3) the needed hardware additions that we implemented on the commercialized ActivMedia's robot, (4) Petra's multi-modal interface designed especially to engage humans in natural (and hopefully pleasant) social interaction, and finally (5) our future research efforts.

Publication Date

12-1-2004

Publication Title

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volume

FS-04-05

Number of Pages

39-46

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

32844468279 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/32844468279

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