title: A functional approach to emotion in autonomous systems.
abstract: The construction of fully effective systems seems to pass through the proper exploitation of goal-centric self-evaluative capabilities that let the system teleologically self-manage. Emotions seem to provide this kind of functionality to biological systems and hence the interest in emotion for function sustainment in artificial systems performing in changing and uncertain environments; far beyond the media hullabaloo of displaying human-like emotion-laden faces in robots. This chapter provides a brief analysis of the scientific theories of emotion and presents an engineering approach for developing technology for robust autonomy by implementing functionality inspired in that of biological emotions.
authors.affiliation: Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASLab-UPM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28045, Madrid, Spain. ricardo.sanz@upm.es
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sanz
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hernández
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.forename: Adolfo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hernando
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003243:Consciousness; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012371:Robotics