Behavioural Affective Modulation of Service Robotic Agents

In the last years, the interest of the creation of robots with emotions has been one of the principal topics in the roboticist community. The important role of emotions in the control and the organisation of the behaviour of robotic systems has been identified. This branch of robotics has recently been enabled and therefore significant research is expected to be carried out. This paper presents a real-time emotional architecture (RTEA) that allows the regulation of the behaviour of robotic agents to fulfil the objectives depending on the emotional state, on the attitude and on the mental capabilities (processor) of the agent. RTEA has been embedded in a real-time Linux kernel to permit the robot to have a more suitable control of the mental capacity and to guarantee the system integrity. A service robotic application where the robot is programmed with different attitudes shows how each of the attitudes influence the robot behavioural control, the use of the mental capacity and the degrees of satisfaction of the achievement of the objectives