1. MTAT.08.015, 2CP Seminar Ilja Livenson Ilja.livenson@gmail.com
Robot Fight
MTAT , 2CP
Seminar
Ilja Livenson

2. Outline Robot: a hero of our time Introduction to Robocode
Passing the course
More about Robocode
Rules of the world

8. Sample Fight
Alt-Tab

9. Passing the course 2 benchmarks 2 competitions
Top 50% in both of them
In case you fail the previous point – extra work!
Article and presentation t

10. Deadlines I Contest – 3.10 – One-on-One II Contest – 10.10 – Melee
I Benchmark – 7.11 – Movement
II Benchmark – – Targeting
Final results: 28.11

11. Robocode Originally by Matthew Nelson from IBM
Small world with simple rules
Developers write code to control the behavior of the tanks in the field
Moving, shooting, scanning, ramming
Code size
Nanobots, Microbots, Minibots, Megabots

12. Physical model Processing loop Movement Gun and radar rotation Bullets
1 tick = 1 turn = 1 frame
Movement
Gun and radar rotation
The speed of rotation per tick is limited
Bullets

13. Processing loop All robots execute their code until taking action
Time is updated (currentTime++)
All bullets move and check for collisions
All robots move (heading, acceleration, velocity, distance, in that order)
All robots perform scans (and collect team messages)
The battlefield draws

14. Movement Acceleration: 1px/tick Deceleration: 2px/tick
Maximum speed: 8px/tick

15. Bullets Damage = 4 * firepower. Velocity = 20 - 3 * firepower
If firepower > 1, it does an additional 2 * (power - 1).
Velocity = * firepower
Gun heat generated = 1 + firepower
Power returned on hit = 3 * firepower
Heat = 1 + (firepower / 5)

16. Robocode API Event based programming Superclasses JuniorRobot
SimpleRobot
AdvancedRobot

17. Modes
One-on-one
Melee
Team

18. Questions?
Next time: Movement, Targeting, Radar, Strategy