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Emotional competence plays a crucial role in human communication and hence has also gained increasing attention for the design of interaction processes between humans and robots. Like humans, emotionally intelligent robots should be capable of coping with the emotions of their human counterpart as well as with their own artificial emotions, which requires some key competencies. Robots need the abilities to recognize and to understand human emotions in a certain situation, they have to be able to react adequately in order to regulate their own emotions as well as the emotions of their human counterpart, and they have to express their own emotions in an adequate way. In this paper we elaborate the concepts of emotional competence and show how artificial emotions and drives can be integrated into a robotic system to realize emotionally competent and proactive behavior. For this purpose we propose a fuzzy emotion model which is used as basis for human emotion recognition and for representing the static aspects of a robot’s emotions. Subsequently, a dynamic model for artificial robotic emotions and drives that allows for adequate control of robotic behavior is described. Furthermore, the application of our concepts in the emotionally competent robot head MEXI is presented.
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Esau, N., Kleinjohann, L. (2011). Emotional Robot Competence and Its Use in Robot Behavior Control. In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Emotional Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-423-4_7
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