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   8 <h2>Applet Bots</h2>
   9 <p>
  10         Welcome to Applet Bots, a multi-agent environment simulation project
  11         started by <a href="http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/">Erik Rasmussen</a>.
  12         The intial goal in this project was to create a two-dimensional
  13         environment for virtual robots (called "agents") to wander
  14         around in and perform tasks based on simple algorithms.
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  17         The rules are as follows:
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  19 <ul>
  20         <li>
  21                 Agents are represented as circles and bounce off of
  22                 walls and other objects according to the laws of physics.
  23         </li>
  24         <li>
  25                 An agent must not know his absolute position (x and y
  26                 coordinates) in the world.
  27         </li>
  28         <li>
  29                 An agent has a limited sight starting from the edge of
  30                 his "body" out in 360&deg;.
  31         </li>
  32         <li>
  33                 An agent can know his velocity and the velocity of any
  34                 other objects he can see.
  35         </li>
  36         <li>
  37                 An agent can only control his movement by setting his
  38                 acceleration. This is very different from changing his
  39                 velocity or position.
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  41         <li>
  42                 In one time cycle, each agent may observe the world and
  43                 optionally modify his acceleration only once.
  44         </li>
  45 </ul>
  46 <p>
  47         The final goal is to have some kind of learning AI bots playing
  48         a game similar to soccer or capture the flag or something.
  49 </p>
  50 <p>
  51         Inspiration for this project has come from
  52         <a href="http://www.robocup.org/" rel="nofollow">RoboCup</a>,
  53         <a href="http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/" rel="nofollow">Boids</a>, and the
  54         <a href="http://www.swarm.org/" rel="nofollow">Swarm Development Group</a>.
  55 </p>
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  57         <h3>The Simulations</h3>
  58         <ul>
  59                 <li>
  60                         <a href="applets/friendly.html">Friendly Bots</a>
  61                 </li>
  62                 <li>
  63                         <a href="applets/kicker.html">Kicker Bots</a>
  64                 </li>
  65                 <li>
  66                         <a href="applets/directedKicker.html">Directed Kickers</a>
  67                 </li>
  68                 <li>
  69                         <a href="applets/tag.html">Tag Bots</a>
  70                 </li>
  71                 <li>
  72                         <a href="applets/gatherers.html">Gatherers</a>
  73                 </li>
  74                 <li>
  75                         <a href="applets/swarm.html">Swarm</a>
  76                 </li>
  77         </ul>
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  79 <p>
  80         If the applets don't work, you might need to install the Sun
  81         Java Virtual Machine in your browser. To do so,
  82         <a href="http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html">click here</a>.
  83 </p>
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  85         <a href="dist/javadoc/index.html">View Java Documentation</a>
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  87 <div style="text-align:center;">
  88         <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/applet-bots/">SourceForge Project</a>
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  91 <p style="text-align:center;">
  92         Please leave questions and comments in <a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=737101">the forum</a>.
  93 </p>
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  95 <div class="official">
  96         The official version of this file is at <a href="http://applet-bots.sourceforge.net/">applet-bots.sourceforge.net</a>
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