Task Allocation for Affective Robots Based on Willingness

Abstract

Affection is regarded as a new solution to coordinate task allocation problems in the multi-robot system. In this paper, we proposed an interpretable and computational affection model based on willingness and a new personality model named CASE to measure the heterogeneity of the robot. Emotion contagion model is used to calculate affective interaction among robots, and we use willingness to quantify the impact of affective factors on task allocation and as an important factor for task allocation. Task allocation algorithm is designed for affective robots, and simulate the application of the affection model at task allocation by a typical example. It displays the characteristics and novelty of affection in task allocation and to verify the correctness, effectiveness, and novelty of affective robot task allocation algorithm. The result of the simulation experiment shows that affective robots in multi-robot cooperation systems obtain a better solution than rational robots and express the state of the art of task allocation for effective robots.

Keywords

• Affection model
• emotional contagion
• multi-robot system
• task allocation
• willingness