Mid-Term Senior Project Report
Phoenix Moorman
CSCI 390 - Senior Seminar & Project
March 20, 2002
Project Recap
• Get a pair of handyboard-based Lego robots
to play Lazer Tag using infrared
communication
• Develop strategies using Robocode;
perform statistical analysis to find winning
strategies
• Translate Robocode strategies to real robots
The Robots
Progress - Robots
• Robot bodies are completely built
• ‘Gun Turret’ added to one robot to aid in
behavior
• Basic infrared communication achieved
What’s Left - Robots
• Two-way infrared communication needs to
be perfected
• Light-seeking equipment needs to be added
to robots
Simple Behaviors
• Simple behaviors can be powerful despite
their simplicity
• John Dunbar - rides through the enemy lines
and swivels its gun
Complex Behaviors
• Complex behaviors rely on algorithms that
make use of a number of available factors to
better find, attack, and destroy the enemy
• Tracker - attempts to discover the other
robot’s strategy by mapping out the other
robot’s position on the board
“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the
enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”
Progress - Behaviors
• John Dunbar is completed, both for
Robocode and handyboard
• Tracker is mainly completed
What’s Left - Behaviors
• Finish Tracker for Robocode, translate to
handyboard
• Pit the two strategies against one another in
game play
• Write a paper based on my research