Publication

Robot pain: A speculative review of its functions

Book Chapter (2016)

Book Title

Pain and the Conscious Brain

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Pages

235-246

Number

16

Doc link

http://www.lww.com/Product/9781496333629

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Abstract

Given the scarce bibliography dealing explicitly with robot pain, this chapter has enriched its review with related research works about robot behaviours and capacities in which pain could play a role. It is shown that all such roles ⎯ranging from punishment to intrinsic motivation and planning knowledge⎯ can be formulated within the unified framework of reinforcement learning.

Categories

biocybernetics, intelligent robots, learning (artificial intelligence), robot programming.

Author keywords

Robot pain, Reinforcement learning

Scientific reference

C. Torras. Robot pain: A speculative review of its functions. In Pain and the Conscious Brain, 235-246. Wolters Kluwer, 2016.