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  In recent years, there has been a growing interest
  in modelling emotional responses inside the
  perception—action loop of an autonomous robot.
  One of the motivations of this trend is that an emotional
  system could introduce complex decision making
  capabilities in robots in a faster and more flexible
  way than symbolic deliberative architectures.
  However, recent proposals in literature model
  emotions at a very low level (Arkin et al., 2003,
  Murphy et al., 2002). Briefly, a robot emotional
  state is simply associated with suitable parameters of
  the reactive behaviors. Instead, emotions may have
  an important role at a higher, conceptual level of
  reasoning of the robot.
  It is claimed that the emotional states of an
  agent may be related with its internal motivations
  (Balkenius, 1995). For example, an agent has a
  pleasure response when its motivations are well satisfied.
  More in details, a difference is usually made
  between primary and higher-order emotions. Primary
  emotions are related with the immediate perceptions
  and motivations of the agent. They can be
  hardwired or, if learned, they are difficultly forgotten.
  Higher-order emotions are instead related with
  the long—term motivations of the agent; in general
  they are learned during the operation tasks.
  In the proposed system, both primary and higher-order
  robot emotions are represented in terms of
  a conceptual space (Gardenfors, 2000). The system
  has been implemented in the autonomous robot operating
  at the Robotics Laboratory of the University of
  Palermo (a RWI B21 equipped with laser and stereo
  head). The task of the robot is to offer guided tours
  in the Museum of Electrical Equipments at the Department
  of Electrical Engineering.
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confdates: 'August 4-5, 2003'
conference: 'Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
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  - family: Berthouze
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  - family: Kozima
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  - family: Bullock
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  - family: Stojanov
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:50:17
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title: Conceptual Spaces and Robotic Emotions
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volume: 101
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