Handling Robot Sociality: A Goal-based Normative Approach

The increasing development of service robots devoted to various functions arisen the need to demonstrate additional social capabilities beyond their primary functionality. For improving robot sociality, among other abilities, robots need to implement the capability to interact with humans using the same principles as humans do following social norms. In this work, we propose an extension of a goal-based normative framework to cover new abstractions such as qualitative goals, social norms, and expectations which constitute essential elements for handling robot sociality. Moreover, we have integrated such extended normative framework into a Nao robot platform. An implementation of the proposed framework is described and tested in a simulated environment.