CSCE 782: Problem Set 7

Due: Monday, 8 December 2003, 4pm

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The final project consists of a RoboCup tournament. Each group will consist of 1-2 students and will be responsible for one soccer team. At the end of the semester we will have a tournament where, hopefully, every team will play every other team (time permitting). Your grade will not be entirely determined by your performance in this competition, the competition is meant as a way for you to observe the robustness of the techniques you've developed. You should visit the SoccerBeans homepage. In there you will find the SoccerBeans source code and step-by-step instructions on how to run it. You can download the soccerserver from the soccerserver homepage. We will be using version 9.0.3.

Tournament Setup

For the tournament, the robocup server will run on one of the Unix machines in the lab. Your team will run on one (or more) other machines. You must make sure that you can talk to a server in a different machine otherwise you will not be able to participate. The tournament will take place on the 4 of December during regular class hour, but it might go on for an hour longer than normal. The soccerserver will be run using this rcssserver-server.conf file. So, you must make sure you place that file in the directory that soccerbeans resides, as well as start the server with the command: 
rcssserver/src/rcssserver -sfile rcssserver-server.conf
This configuration file turns off noise and makes some other things easier for you. I also turned on logging. You will want to replay these logs with the logplayer to see exactly what your players are doing. If there are issues with it let me know early on.

Submission Instructions

As will all the problem sets, you will hand them in using our department's dropbox. You will hand in all your source code, the javadoc, and the final writeup. The final writeup is a document that explains to the reader your approach for solving the robocup problem. It should include:

  1. A Distribution of labor, which includes the percentage of the work done by each of the team members, and what parts each worked on. The final grade will be distributed among the teammembers using the percentages you give me.
  2. The design of your project (include UML diagrams). Why you chose each particular aspect. An overview of your architecture: the different pieces and how they relate. Your plan for winning the game.
  3. Explain each of the technologies you used.
  4. Explain any technologies or techniques that your group invented.
  5. Conclusion. Lessons you learned from the tournament. What additions/modifications would you make to the system to make it perform better.
  6. I expected this code to be well-commented.
  7. The document should start with:

    Name:
    email:
    ID:

    I understand that it is the responsibility of every member of the Carolina community to uphold an maintain the academic standards and integrity of the University of South Carolina. Any member of the University community, who has reasonable grounds to believe that an infraction of the Code of Student Academic Responsibility has occurred, has an obligation to report the alleged violation.

    I certify that I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this problem set.
José M. Vidal
Last modified: Fri Dec 5 16:20:44 EST 2003