Motivations for MADbot: a Motivated And Goal Directed Robot
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This paper presents the MADbot architecture which enables a motivated autonomous agent to generate goals in response to changes in its underlying drives or motivations, while it is both planning and executing. We use a Mars rover domain to illustrate the workings of this architecture and describe two ways of modelling motivations and goal generation: the first decouples the model of motivations and goal generation from the workings of an AI planner; the second models motivations and goal generation implicitly in the planner’s domain model. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and offer ideas for further work.
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