We present a robot architecture and experiments to investigate some of the roles that pleasure plays in the decision making (action selection) process of an autonomous robot that must survive in its environment. We have conducted three sets of experiments to assess the effect of different types of pleasure—related versus unrelated to the satisfaction of physiological needs—under different environmental circumstances. Our results indicate that pleasure, including pleasure unrelated to need satisfaction, has value for homeostatic management in terms of improved viability and increased flexibility in adaptive behavior.

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享乐品质还是奖励？一个有动机的自主机器人在稳态和决策中的基本乐趣研究

我们提出了一个机器人架构和实验，以研究快乐在必须在其环境中生存的自主机器人的决策（动作选择）过程中所扮演的一些角色。我们进行了三组实验，以评估不同类型的愉悦——与生理需求的满足相关或无关——在不同环境条件下的影响。我们的结果表明，快乐，包括与需求满足无关的快乐，在提高生存能力和增加适应性行为的灵活性方面对稳态管理具有价值。