How to Make Robots Feel and Social as Humans: Building attributes of artificial emotional intelligence with robots of human-like behavior

摘要

Paper contributes to building attributes of artificial Emotional Intelligence (EI) aimed to be implemented in robots of human behavior as advanced intelligent robot interface. The main research objective of the paper regards to searching is it possible and how to make robots emotive and sociable as humans. For this purpose, the Meyers-Briggs theory on human personality, known from personality psychology, is employed for mapping human psychological traits and development of robot EI-controller. A customized multi-input and multi-output fuzzy inference model is designed to fit human affective and social attributes. The assumed fuzzy structure makes core of the robot EI-controller. Developed intelligent robot interface was implemented with small Aldebaran's Nao humanoid robot used to validate control performances and EI model developed. In the paper, was presented how the developed intelligent robot interface can be used for mapping different human personality traits and temperaments to the machine. Accuracy of the model used for building robot interface was verified by tests with human examinees by using corresponding on-line psychological tests - questionnaires.