Toward Computational Motivation for Multi-Agent Systems and Swarms

Md Mohiuddin Khan, Kathryn Kasmarik, Michael Barlow
2018 Frontiers in Robotics and AI  
Motivation is a crucial part of animal and human mental development, fostering competence, autonomy, and open-ended development. Motivational constructs have proved to be an integral part of explaining human and animal behavior. Computer scientists have proposed various computational models of motivation for artificial agents, with the aim of building artificial agents capable of autonomous goal generation. Multi-agent systems and swarm intelligence are natural extensions to the individual
more » ... setting. However, there are only a few works that focus on motivation theories in multi-agent or swarm settings. In this study, we review current computational models of motivation settings, mechanisms, functions and evaluation methods and discuss how we can produce systems with new kinds of functions not possible using individual agents. We describe in detail this open area of research and the major research challenges it holds.
doi:10.3389/frobt.2018.00134 pmid:33501012 pmcid:PMC7806096 fatcat:afbsmnodtbdgvhgyzsbykdwniu