| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S79299/01 |
| Title: |
AIBACS: The Impact of Durative Variable state on the Design and Control of Action Selection |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bryson, Dr JJ |
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Computer Science |
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University of Bath |
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First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
10 January 2005 |
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09 January 2008 |
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127,328
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1)To create psychologically-realistic artificial models of the onset, persistence and decay of emotion and drive response levels. These models are to be made availabe as source code as well as described adequately to be reimplemented in most agent architectures. The models should consist of a general-purpose framework plus parameter settings to achieve the specific implementations described below in other objectives.2) To integrate the emotion and drive model into a current state-of-the-art, hybrid reactive-plan-based action-selection system. We believe this would improve the current standard of artificial action-selection by providing a form of decision state which is more persistent than that found in even the best reactive plans, but more adaptable and contextually appropriate than that based on conventional knowledge bases or belief systems (long-term memory.3) To produce a system of humanoid Virtual Reality (VR) character and personality expression which incorporates this model. This system will allow tests of the believability of the emotional models on ordinary human subjects as well as serving as a tool for refining such models. The basic framework for the VR system exists, the work here is to incorporate the emotion/drive system and to create tools for supporting that system's control, e.g. parameter setting, initiation and debugging.4)To produce an agent-based simulation of primate social interactions which tests the evolutionary efficacy of such a representation system. The primate social simulations are again already an active research project in our group, the goal here would be to use them to test both the code created under objective 1) and theories of the adaptive utility of the emergence of new emotional states.
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