Reflex and Emotion-based Behavior Selection for Toy Robot

This paper presents a robotic doll with emotional and reflexive behaviors. The robotic doll imitates an animal's appearance to provide comfort in human interaction. Emotion is considered to show more natural behaviors and to interact with user more intimately. Behavior is selected based on reflex-ness and emotion. A bear-like robotic doll, GomDoll is developed with the full use of the available degrees of freedom, sensors, and emotional and reflexive architecture implemented on a micro-controller. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.