James Hobson Andrew Forth Josh Griffin Swarm Intelligence James Hobson Andrew Forth Josh Griffin

For Your Information… Swarm Intelligence is a branch of AI SI is study of simple agents doing intelligent things Ants are the most common examples of SI Useful for the traveling salesman problem

ANTS!!! Ants are really good at… gathering food building bridges building and protecting large nests cooperating in carrying large items finding the shortest path to a food source using pheromones

Programming Challenges making a world making ants that move around without walking in circles getting the ants to harvest food

The Ant Simulation World 10 to 20 ants created in the beginning. Ants are spawned based on food collected.

The World cont. There is presently no time limit for the ants. Ants have life and will starve when food is gone

Top Secret Ant Mission When ants are born, they search around until they find something to interact with, ie food. When they find food…

Back to the nest!!

Howdya Do That?  Ants have a sense of smell Ants have sight Ants have instinct

By The Numbers 1000+ 5 8 1 Number of lines of code in the program Number of classes used. 1 for ant, 1 for colony, 1 for food, and 2 for window Weeks to complete the project Number of people programming java code

week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6 | week 7 | week 8 Timeline Decide on project, divide up work Make an environment for the ants using pacman code Make an ant that moves around randomly Make the ant with sight and smell Make multiple ants Ants follow pheromone trail Fix bugs Turn it in week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6 | week 7 | week 8