Applet Bots

Welcome to Applet Bots, a multi-agent environment simulation project started by Erik Rasmussen. The intial goal in this project was to create a two-dimensional environment for virtual robots (called "agents") to wander around in and perform tasks based on simple algorithms.

The rules are as follows:

• Agents are represented as circles and bounce off of walls and other objects according to the laws of physics.
• An agent must not know his absolute position (x and y coordinates) in the world.
• An agent has a limited sight starting from the edge of his "body" out in 360°.
• An agent can know his velocity and the velocity of any other objects he can see.
• An agent can only control his movement by setting his acceleration. This is very different from changing his velocity or position.
• In one time cycle, each agent may observe the world and optionally modify his acceleration only once.

The final goal is to have some kind of learning AI bots playing a game similar to soccer or capture the flag or something.