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Prototyping Teams of Affective Agents in Robocode

António Rebelo, Fábio Catalão, João Alves, Goreti Marreiros, Cesar Analide, Paulo Novais, José Neves

Abstract


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

Keywords


Affective agents, Team behaviour, Robocode.

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