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In this project you should implement a multi agent system, then assess it experimentally. You will first submit a proposal, which, once approved you can start work on. | In this project you should implement a multi agent system, then assess it experimentally. You will first submit a proposal, which, once approved you can start work on. | ||
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| + | ==The Proposal== | ||
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| + | Create a one to two page proposal that contains the following sections: | ||
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| + | #Overview: Big picture of what you're planning to do. | ||
| + | #Research Question: What question or hypothesis are you going to explore? Try to make this clear and quantitative. Example: "Does schooling increase prey survival rates?" | ||
| + | #Implementation Approach: Which algorithms or methods are you going to use? Which simulation environment? | ||
| + | #Quantitative Assessment: How will you measure your results? | ||
| + | #Milestones: List 3 milestones for your project that you will have to meet in order to get done on time. Examples: Experimental environment set up and working; First cut of behavior implemented; Project Complete. | ||
| + | #Fallback: What if you can't build the full system you want to, what's the fallback? | ||
| + | #Citations: Citations to the previous work relevant to your proposal. | ||
==Final Project Ideas== | ==Final Project Ideas== | ||
Revision as of 15:05, 26 February 2015
Overview
In this project you should implement a multi agent system, then assess it experimentally. You will first submit a proposal, which, once approved you can start work on.
The Proposal
Create a one to two page proposal that contains the following sections:
- Overview: Big picture of what you're planning to do.
- Research Question: What question or hypothesis are you going to explore? Try to make this clear and quantitative. Example: "Does schooling increase prey survival rates?"
- Implementation Approach: Which algorithms or methods are you going to use? Which simulation environment?
- Quantitative Assessment: How will you measure your results?
- Milestones: List 3 milestones for your project that you will have to meet in order to get done on time. Examples: Experimental environment set up and working; First cut of behavior implemented; Project Complete.
- Fallback: What if you can't build the full system you want to, what's the fallback?
- Citations: Citations to the previous work relevant to your proposal.
Final Project Ideas
You are not limited to these ideas. These are just potential starting points.
- Implement a real animal behavior and compare its performance to the real animal model (examples: porpoise herding of schooling fish in shallow water, honey bee communication)
- Implement an adversarial game in 3d using PyBioSim. Perhaps 3d soccer or quid ditch.
- Implement 2d or 3d herding. First implement the sheep, then program your sheepdogs. Investigate different herding strategies and measure their performance.
- Is schooling (or herding) an effective behavior for prey fish (land animals)? You can explore this by programming a fixed set of predator behaviors, then program a baseline prey behavior, then vary a parameter that turns up or down the tendency to school. Measure how many prey are killed over a fixed time period.
- Use a machine learning approach (RL or GAs) to evolve a group behavior such as foraging, predator behavior or prey behavior.
- Implement ant navigation using pheromones.
- Does how does prey behavior evolve as a consequence of predator behavior? When does schooling evolve or not? In this project, program several different predator behaviors that you believe would be countered by different pre behaviors, then create a method to evolve prey behavior (e.g., GAs). Compare and contrast the prey behaviors that result.
- Implement a 2d or 3d modular self assembly algorithm. Can you improve it?
