@inproceedings{8a0050a88f844bdc9587510fc2997c23,
title = "Emotions as a bridge to the environment: on the role of body in organisms and robots",
abstract = "Adaptive agents exhibit tightly coupled interactions between nervous system, body and environment. Parisi recently suggested that the current focus on sensorimotor interaction between agent and environment needs to be complemented by an {"}internal robotics{"}, i.e. modeling of the interaction between internal physiology and nervous system in, for example, emotional mechanisms. The dynamical systems notion of {"}collective variables{"} can help understanding such interactions. In emotions physiological states are key parameters that trace the global dynamic concern relevance of the situation. Such variables may be key, in adaptive systems, to monitoring and controlling the agent's interaction with the external environment. We show in a simple robotic simulation that the neural controller can self-organize to exploit the dynamical regularities traced by these variables. We conclude this can prove to be a useful technique in robots and animats, towards evolving emotion-based adaptive behaviors.",
author = "P{\'e}rez, {Carlos Herrera} and Moffat, {David C.} and Tom Ziemke",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11840541_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540386087",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "3--16",
editor = "Stefano Nolfi and Gianluca Baldassarre and Raffaele Calabretta and Hallam, { John C. T. } and Davide Marocco and Meyer, { Jean-Arcady} and Orazio Miglino and Domenico Parisi",
booktitle = "From Animals to Animats 9: 9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006, Rome, Italy, September 25-29, 2006, Proceedings",
note = "9th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2006 ; Conference date: 25-09-2006 Through 29-09-2006",
}