Prototyping teams of affective agents in robocode

• Autor(a) principal: Rebelo, António
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Catalão, Fábio, Alves, João, Marreiros, Goreti, Analide, Cesar, Novais, Paulo, Neves, José
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/36542
• topic: Affective agents; Team behaviour; Robocode; Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

The study of the impact of emotion and affect in decision making processes involved in a working team stands for a multi-disciplinary issue (e.g. with insights from disciplines such as Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Computer Science). On the one hand, and in order to create such an environment we look at a team of affective agents to play into a battlefield, which present different emotional profiles (e.g. personality and mood). An emotional system, based on the OCC (Ortony, Clore and Collins) model, was proposed and implemented. As a way to integrate the personality of a robot with its emotions we used pleasure-arousal-dominance (PAD) model of mood. On the other hand, to attain cooperation, a voting mechanism and a decision-making process was implemented, being Robocode used as the simulation environment. Indeed, the results so far obtained are quite satisfying; the agent team performs quite well in the battlefield and undertakes different behaviours depending on the skirmish conditions