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This chapter is focused on how emotional intelligence is used in order to plan the most suitable path for a robot when fulfilling a certain task. Classic planners use several criteria such as the shortest path, or the minimum time, but those planners do not take into account some inner factors as human beings do in the decision making process. Those factors are for instance, previous experiences that led to failures or successes as well as inner factors that can determine the fact that sometimes people are more conservative or more brave when selecting a path to reach to some place. In this chapter, a general view of robot planning as well as the role of emotions in robots are exposed first. Moreover, an example of an emotion inspired planner applied to a topological navigation system is shown, as well as the results obtained with a real robot.
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Barber, R., Egido, V., Malfaz, M., Salichs, M.A. (2009). Path Planning Inspired on Emotional Intelligence. In: Liu, D., Wang, L., Tan, K.C. (eds) Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89933-4_6
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