Artificial emotions and emotion-based control systems

Abstract

For the past two years, the research interest concerning subjects related to the area of (artificial) emotions has grown considerably. Generically, the goal is to develop new architectures/frameworks that are suitable for designing virtual or robotic agents whose behaviour may somehow be compared with the "emotional facet" of human behaviour. In this paper, an emotion-based system architecture, together with an application of it for control and supervision purposes is presented.