Emotional contagion and personality driven multi-robot task allocation algorithm

Abstract

Many scholars in the fields of psychology and computer science have already carried out in-depth research on emotions and established some related models. But how to deal with the cooperation among emotional robots in task allocation is a new research issue. In this paper, we research the emotion and personality of robot, the influencing mechanism of emotions among robots, and propose an algorithm of multi-robot task allocation based on emotional contagion which turns robots' emotions into a positive state. According to different emotion values and personalities, we select the robot with a higher value of leadership as the team leader, and then choose other team members based on emotional contagion, thus forming a team that meets the mission requirements. Finally, experiments analyze factors affecting emotional contagion model and verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.