Title
Hedonic quality or reward? A study of basic pleasure in homeostasis and decision making of a motivated autonomous robot.
Abstract
We present a robot architecture and experiments to investigate some of the roles that pleasure plays in the decision making (action selection) process of an autonomous robot that must survive in its environment. We have conducted three sets of experiments to assess the effect of different types of pleasure-related versus unrelated to the satisfaction of physiological needs-under different environmental circumstances. Our results indicate that pleasure, including pleasure unrelated to need satisfaction, has value for homeostatic management in terms of improved viability and increased flexibility in adaptive behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1177/1059712316666331
Adaptive Behaviour
Keywords
Field
DocType
Action selection,embodied autonomous robots,homeostasis,hormonal modulation,motivation and emotion,pleasure
Computer science,Pleasure,Artificial intelligence,Action selection,Autonomous robot,Adaptive behavior,Robot architecture,Making-of
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
5
1059-7123
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.47
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Lewis1304.64
Lola Cañamero232039.12