Research On Artificial Endocrine Emotion Models

For the past few years, inspired by the biological information processing mechanism, a lot of important intelligent models and technologies have been presented. The biological information processing system is mainly composed of nervous system, immune system and endocrine system. There is not only large loop among them, but also direct reciprocity, which plays an important role in the growing development and metabolism of organisms and maintains their vital movement together. Inspired by the biological mechanism of the nervous system and immune system, artificial neural network as well as artificial immune system has been promoted. Successful research of the theories, models, algorithms and applications have shown the significant theoretic meaning and applied value of artificial intelligence models research based on biological information processing mechanism, meanwhile ,prompted researchers to explore other information processing system of organisms including endocrine system.As an important part of biological information processing system, the endocrine system contains rather complex and particular information processing mechanisms, including hormonal regulation mechanism, information delivery mechanism and emotion reacting mechanism. Extracting these mechanisms which are peculiar to endocrine system and establishing corresponding models and algorithms has important research value, which has been a hot issue in the research field of artificial intelligence. At the same time, as an integral part of human intelligence, emotion plays an essential role in perception, reasoning, decision making,creativity, social behavior, and so on. With the rapid development of brain science, psychology, information science and intelligent science, many researchers devote themselves into the research of artificial emotion, affective computing, virtual reality and other interdisciplinary fields. Theories, models and algorithms related to emotion are of great importance to enhance system intelligence. It has been discovered that endocrine system and emotion don't exist in isolation, and there is reciprocity between them. Endocrine system plays a momentous regulatory role on emotion, and the great influence from emotion cannot be neglected. Based on the in-depth research and analysis of biological endocrine system, this paper did some research work on the artificial endocrine-emotion models. The main work is summarized as follows: (1) From the information processing point of view, this dissertation lucubrates into the basic functions and mechanism of the endocrine system, analyzes and summaries its unique features, which offers theoretical basis and guidance for the research of artificial endocrine system model.(2) At a basis on the analysis of regulation mechanism of the biological endocrine system, the article brings forward an emotion model which is based on hormonal regulation. The endocrine system regulates the emotions, which can avoid the occurrence of mutations of agents' emotional state, leads to effective behavioral decision, and thereby improves the survivability in complex and dynamic changing environment. Experimental results have verified the validity of the supposed model and algorithm.(3) Using the emotion reacting mechanism of biological endocrine system, taking hormonal regulatory mechanism into consideration, introducing many factors which are closely linked to emotion, this dissertation brings forward an artificial endocrine-emotion model for the first time, in which the endocrine system and emotion have interaction. Fuzzy logic method is employed to deal with the complexity in hormone secretion and uncertainty in emotion generation, considering that the hormone secretion process is complex and the emotion generation process is fuzzy in nature.Generally speaking, biological endocrine system has rich information processing mechanisms. It has significant value to establish artificial endocrine models and algorithms on the base of analysis of them, and we have done some preliminary research, proposed artificial endocrine-emotion models.