title: Volitron: On a Psychodynamic Robot and Its Four Realities
creator: Buller, Andrzej
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Robotics
description: This paper discusses the concept of Volitron - a controller to make its host robot increase its competence in such activities as self-initiated exploration of an environment, new goal acquisition, and planning/executing of actions while taking into account predicted behaviors of objects of interest. There are four key elements in Volitron's structure: a model of perceived reality, a model of desired reality, a model of ideal reality and a model of anticipated reality. The task of a robot's working memory includes producing images of the robot itself imitating another subject's activities and sending the images to a model of desired reality. A tension (a concept borrowed from  psychoanalysis) arising from the differences between a perceived reality and a desired reality is a source of a motivation toward action. The final decision to take an action is based on a comparison of the model of anticipated reality with that of ideal reality. The interaction of Volitron's elements are described in the paper. Furthermore, a computational model of working memory (WM) and its psychological justification are provided.
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
contributor: Prince, Christopher G.
contributor: Demiris, Yiannis
contributor: Marom, Yuval
contributor: Kozima, Hideki
contributor: Balkenius, Christian
date: 2002
type: Conference Poster
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2505/1/Buller.pdf
identifier:   Buller, Andrzej  (2002) Volitron: On a Psychodynamic Robot and Its Four Realities.  [Conference Poster]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2505/