History

Spring 2000: First use of Robocup in Introduction to Multiagent Systems class. Students built almost everything from scratch. Most of the time was spent on building and maintaining a world model with absolute coordinates. Paul Buhler implements the first version of Biter for his project. This version already includes the world model.
Shaun Wood works on it during the summer, adding low-level functions for finding players in view cone, intercepting ball, etc., as well as a graphical debugging tool.
Fall 2000: First use of Biter in the class is successful. While the system is in use José Vidal releases version 2.0 which implements the Generic Agent Architecture.
During the winter break José gets rid of the multiple threads and is able to dribble the ball around the player (tight integration with with sserver's action loop).
During the summers of 2001 and 2003 Hrishikesh Goradia added some more behaviors. This became the other version available for download.
Our design was heavily influenced by The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team.
Fall 2001: Hrishikesh Goradia has developed SoccerBeans which lets you implemented new players by dragging and dropping beans.