Final Project for Autonomous Multiagent Systems (cs378)


 
Your final programming project is to create an entry in the end-of-class RoboCup tournament to be held on Tuesday, December 17th at 10am. By default, your task will be to create a full team of 11 agents based on the code you used in programming assignment 4.

If you prefer, you may instead propose a variation on this task. For instance, you may want to start with an existing team and build a coach agent to control its behavior. Or you may choose to start from scratch and build a team entirely on your own. Or you may choose to create agents that can do some subtask of the full robotic soccer task (for instance, create a very good goalie or shooter via some machine learning technique). The instructor will do his best to provide you with the appropriate code to allow you to get to your proposed starting point. Expectations will be commensurate with the starting point you choose, so feel free to follow your interests.

You may work as an individual or as a team of at most 2 people. 2-person teams should only turn in one submission of the programming portion of the assignment. However, each person must turn in an independently-written proposal and final report. Expectations will be higher for 2-person teams.

The schedule is as follows.

The proposal should be at least 3 pages double spaced. It should be written with the goal of convincing us that what you are proposing to do is interesting and non-trivial. Connect the proposal to the class readings as much as possible. Members of 2-person teams should clearly identify what their roles will be with relation to the overall project. The proposal will be evaluated primarily on written expression and coherence of argument. Feedback will be given both on writing and content. Please turn in a hard copy of the report at the beginning of class. Reports that arrive after that (including partway through class) will be considered late.
The progress report should be at least 5 pages double spaced. It should be written with the goal of convincing us that what you are doing is interesting and non-trivial, and that you are making progress towards your goal. It is expected that a good portion of the progress report will be identical to the proposal. Members of 2-person teams should clearly identify what their roles have been and will be with relation to the overall project.  The progress report will be evaluated primarily on written expression and coherence of argument. Feedback will be given both on writing and content. Please turn in a hard copy of the report at the beginning of class. Reports that arrive after that (including partway through class) will be considered late.
             Also submit the following:
To turn in your logfiles and binaries, use the turnin program with grader "vinay" and assignment label "progress". When the assignment is there, send us an email to that effect. Please turn in a hard copy of the report at the beginning of class. Reports that arrive after that (including partway through class) will be considered late.
To turn in your logfiles and code, use the turnin program with grader "vinay" and assignment label "final". When the assignment is there, send us an email to that effect.  If your code does not run, the instructors will contact you ASAP to remedy the situation. If you don't expect to have time to fix bugs at that point (for instance because you're still working on the final report), make sure it works the first time