On a Robotic Platform for MASIVE-Like Experiments

Abstract

This chapter overviews a robotic platform developed at our Cognitive Agency and Robotics Laboratory (CARoL, n.d.) for the purpose of carrying out Interactivist-Expectative Theory of Agency and Learning (IETAL) and Multi-Agent Simulated Interactive Virtual Environments (MASIVE)-like experiments in a realistic environment. Performing IETAL and MASIVE-like experiments with a robotic agent(s) requires specialized agent(s) in a specialized environment. The solution overviewed here is done on a shoestring budget and is easy to replicate and modify.