EECE 822: PS 1

Introduction:Like all programming problem sets, you can do this one in teams. I recommend that you start thinking about the team for the final project. However, the teams you form for the earlier problem sets need not be the same ones you use for the final project. NOTE: This problem set, like all programming projects, will take a lot of time, especially since you have to become familiar with the soccer server.

Problem 1 (100%):Implement a soccerclient (i.e. an agent) that goes to the soccer ball and kicks it towards the goal. The agent should be able to place itself on the correct side of the ball before kicking towards the goal.

A few hints:

• To get you going you should read the Getting Started guide which shows how to run the software on the Labs NT machines.
• The first thing you will want to do is to check out the code I have placed under software. These clients already do the UDP communications and provide some parsing software.
• You will also want to read over the soccersercer manual.
• The java client I show (originally named Krislet) can almost do all that is required for this problem set (except that the player does not know to place itself of the correct side of the ball so sometimes it ends up kicking in the air). You can use it, but make sure you understand all the code that is there.
• If you are using the C++ client then you can use the parsing class (List) that I provide. This class has had minimal testing so there are probably some bugs in it. You will also need to add the appropiate commands to go towards the ball and kick it. Yes, it is more work that the Java code, sorry.