Adaption of FairGhosts, Applied Computational Intelligence Spring Semester 2020

Table of Content

• Introduction
  • Contributors
• Installation Guide
  • Requirements
  • Guide
  • Executionmodes

Introduction

Contributors

• Timothy Applewhite
• Roger Kaufmann

The fairGhosts adaption is based on the prototype developed by Iris Hunkeler and Fabian Schaer. The game engine used is from the Ms. Pac-Man vs. Ghost Competition held during the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012).

Installation

Requirements

• JRE 1.8.0_251
• Eclipse 2020-03 (4.15.0)

Guide

• Install JRE and Eclipse
• Run the file Execution.java

Executionmodes

The simulation can run in different modes. Depending on the desired mode, the code after line 50 in the Executor.java file has to me modified.

• Experiment - A number of simulation runs is executed without showing visuals. The console returns the score of each execution and the average score after the last run.

    int numTrials=10;
    exec.runExperiment(new Eiisolver(),new FairGhosts(),numTrials);
  

• Visualization Synchron - The game runs synchronous. The game waits until the controllers respond with the next move.

    int delay=5;
    boolean visual=true;
    exec.runGame(new Eiisolver(),new FairGhosts(),visual,delay);
  

• Visualization Asynchron - The game runs asynchronous. The game does not wait until the controllers respond with the next move.

    boolean visual=true;
    exec.runGameTimed(new StarterPacMan(),new FairGhosts(),visual);
  

• Speedoptimized Asynchron - The game runs asynchronous. The game advances as soon as both controllers respond with the next move.

    boolean visual=true;
    boolean fixedTime=false;
    exec.runGameTimedSpeedOptimised(new StarterPacMan(),new FairGhosts(),fixedTime,visual);