Role Recognition Model for Robot in a Group

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a model for robots to decide their role in their group. Recently, there has been an increasing effort to develop personal robots in human communities. In order for robots to behave naturally in human communities, robots are required to acquire sociality. For obtaining sociality, robots are needed to do collective action. Collective action is established by members of a group having their roles. So, we propose the robot model that the robot can recognize its own role. And we examined whether the robots using the model can recognize their role when they form a group. As a result, the smaller the group, the earlier the robots recognize their role in the group.