Mechanical systems for autonomic nervous system in robots
Tetsuya Ogata, Shigeki Sugano · 2002
Summary form only given. This paper describes the correspondence of human's autonomic nervous system and the hardware mechanisms. We implemented the autonomic nervous system hardware into the independent autonomous mobile robot, named WAMOEBA-2 (Waseda artificial mind on emotion base), which has been developed in this research for the realization of the emotional communication between humans and robots. WAMOEBA-2 has four kinds of hormone parameters using an original algorithm-the evaluation function for self-preservation. These parameters influence various parts such as the motor output and the sensor gain. As the results of these functions, WAMOEBA-2 can cope with its environment and express the emotional behaviors. Finally, we evaluate the experiments concerning the psychological impressions which WAMOEBA-2 gives to humans.