Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

The human emotion model

The robot also needs a model of the human it is talking to, so it can make different responses based on how the human is feeling. We are going to create a smaller version of the emotion model we used earlier. We model four emotions for our human interactions for the robot to use in formulating responses: happy/sad, and welcoming/distant. We can put emotion tags into our patterns in the script file with [happy] , [sad],[welcome] or [distant] to mark the emotions of responses. For example, if we are not getting answers to our questions, we can mark that response with [distant] to note that our subject is not being cooperative:

Our human emotion model makes use of a Python dictionary data structure to hold our model. ...