Overview

This application simulates agents operating in an environment.

History

I origanally developed this application as an assignment for the AI and Games module which was part of the BSc in Computer Science I was studying.

Agents

There are two types of agent:

1. Workers dipicted as blue squares.
2. Grazers dipicted as yellow squares.

Worker agents

The worker agents have the following behaviour:

1. Search the environment.
2. Avoid obsticals.
3. Gather resources.
4. Return resources to their home (a white square).
5. Remove grazer agents from the environment.

Grazer agents

The grazer agents have the following behaviour:

1. Search the environment.
2. Avoid obsticals.
3. Gather resources.
4. Evade worker agents.

Vector lines

In order to get a better idea of how the agents are moving I included vector lines. Each agent has two vector lines:

1. The green vector line shows the current direction that the agent is moving.
2. The red vector line shows the desired direction that the agent wants to move to.

User controls

The user of the application can do the following:

1. Turn the vector lines off or on by pressing 'V'.
2. Quit the simulation by pressing 'Esc'.

The running simulation

Known issues

There is a problem with the collision detection. When an agent moves near a corner of an obstical the agent can get stuck on the corner. I have left this in as it can produce some interesting behaviour.