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Creating and Capturing Artificial Emotions in Autonomous Robots and Software Agents

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Abstract

This paper presents ARTEMIS, a control system for autonomous robots or software agents. ARTEMIS is able to create and capture artificial emotions during interactions with its environment, and we describe the underlying mechanisms for this. The control system also realizes the capturing of knowledge about its past artificial emotions. A specific interpretation of a knowledge graph, called an Agent Knowledge Graph, represents these artificial emotions. For this, we devise a formalism which enriches the traditional factual knowledge in knowledge graphs with the representation of artificial emotions. As proof of concept, we realize a concrete software agent based on the ARTEMIS control system. This software agent acts as a user assistant and executes the user’s orders. The environment of this user assistant consists of autonomous service agents. The execution of user’s orders requires interaction with these autonomous service agents. These interactions lead to artificial emotions within the assistant. The first experiments show that it is possible to realize an autonomous agent with plausible artificial emotions with ARTEMIS and to record these artificial emotions in its Agent Knowledge Graph. In this way, autonomous agents based on ARTEMIS can capture essential knowledge that supports successful planning and decision making in complex dynamic environments and surpass emotionless agents.

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  • Autonomous agents
  • Artificial emotions
  • Agent Knowledge Graphs

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We thank Christoph Lange from Fraunhofer Institute FIT for his valuable comments regarding our work. This work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822404 (QualiChain).

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  1. Research Group Robots and Software Agents with Emotions, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Claus Hoffmann

  2. TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany

    Maria-Esther Vidal

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Hoffmann, C., Vidal, ME. (2020). Creating and Capturing Artificial Emotions in Autonomous Robots and Software Agents. In: Bielikova, M., Mikkonen, T., Pautasso, C. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50578-3_19

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