Project 3: Communication in a simulated soccer team

• Due: 24 October

• Overview of the project:
  In the last project you revised a soccer team to handle reduced range sensing. In this project we will add the capability for the robots to communicate.

• What you need to do for this project:
  1. Modify the team from your last project to utilize communication in a limited sensor range environment.
  2. Evaluate your communicating team in one of two ways:
     1. Run your team from last project (with limited sensing) against your new team and log the results.
     2. Run both of your teams against the same opponent and compare the differential results.
     In both cases, run several trials with different random number seeds. And run both of your with the "new" limited range hardware (SocSmallSimSRV). Opponent robot teams (that you didn't write) should not have the limited sensing.
  3. For your report: describe your new team, evaluate its performance -- explain the performance (i.e. why is your new team better or worse than before). Also provide the quantitative performance data.

• Give me a HARDCOPY description of your team.
• Send the source code to me by email (trb@cs.cmu.edu). Note: please prepend "project3:" to the subject of your email message. This will help me sort files into the right folder.

• Your grade will be determined, in order of significance, by:
  • The creativity of your solution.
  • Your analysis of of the results.