The structure of personality-based emotional decision making in robotic rescue agent

Abstract

One of the most important factors which can affect decision making in a disaster environment is the structure of the agent's personality. It is obvious that the more the agent is able to control its emotions in harmful environments, the better it can perform its task. In this paper we will introduce a new structure for decision making in emergency situations, which is based on emotional intelligence of the human being's mind. We have designed a model that combines personality characteristics of an agent, its emotional behaviors and the external events that can affect him. This new decision making model has been tested on a typical disaster space called Robocup Rescue Simulation (RRS). Our method has been implemented on three types of agents in the RRS environment. In fact this model tries to use a different kind of intelligence on these rescuer agents. The results of this research can help disaster managers by optimizing their rescue management in a disaster space. © 2008 IEEE.