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Motivation
- Student programming assignments
– too much troublesome administrative overhead – effort directed toward programming, not AI – non-reusable hacks
- Student-friendly AI modeling and simulation framework
A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent Agents and Control Systems Dan Tappan Assistant Professor, Computer Science Idaho State University 1 AAAI-08 Motivation Student programming assignments too much
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Environment
- 3D tabletop world of arbitrary scale
north e a s t x y z south west
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Components
- Hierarchical building blocks / infrastructure for agents
– input/processing/output functionality – tedious, error-prone engineering aspects
- mount points
- degrees of freedom
- speed, acceleration, timing
– enforces students’ rules and constraints
x y z pitch roll yaw x y z elevation azimuth
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Agents
- Coordinated components in task environment
– AI core – command and control – intercommunication
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Simulation and Analysis
- Monte Carlo simulation
– controlled experiments – automatic data collection – manual, external analysis
- Example scenarios
– nature
- herding
- flocking
- following
- predator/prey
– engineering
- control systems
- robotics
- battle engagements
leader the herd baby mommy the herd
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