Patent ID: 7024277

Claim:
A method for determination and control of activities of a non-biological emotional system, denoted by aS, said system comprising: (i) a subsystem, denoted by WP, for perception of objects and situations, (ii) a set of needs, (iii) rules and procedures for determining emotional intensities, and (iv) models of objects and situations which can occur in the surrounding of the system aS, where to such model can be connected stimulus patterns with respect to said needs, said method, comprising: (a) a set of activity schemas, or in short activities, which the system aS can execute and which include said in (iv) situation models some of which are initial and end situations of the activity, and some of the end situations are goal situations; (b) determining the activity which handles a situation currently perceived and which is not an expected situation of an activity being executed or interrupted, putting this activity with this situation into the list of activities waiting for execution, and updating the emotional intensities depending on said perceived situation using said in (iii) rules and procedures; (c) intensities of satisfactions and desires with regard to said in (ii) needs, and other emotional intensities of the system aS, where these intensities are updated by using said in (iii) rules and procedures; (d) associating to each currently perceived situation the activity which is being executed or interrupted, when this situation is expected in this activity at present; (e) associating to each command currently perceived the activity which accomplishes this command and the actual initial situation of this activity, and putting this command with the associated activity and said initial situation into the list of activities waiting for execution; (f) determining the execution of activities and commands waiting for execution by means of the present motivations of the system aS to execute these activities and commands; (g) updating the intensities of satisfactions and desires and other emotional intensities of the system aS with regard to the needs occurring in the stimulus patterns which are in the achieved or not achieved end situation of the activity which has been finished or abandoned; and (h) updating the intensities of satisfactions and desires of the system aS with regard to the need to perform commands and wishes of an authorized person or system, and the need for recognition and acknowledgement, when a command has been finished or abandoned.