GECCO 2015

This is CBBOC’s inaugural year. It’s designed to provide the GECCO community with detailed performance comparisons of a wide variety of meta-heuristics and hyper-heuristics on combinatorial problems, where the real-world problems which induce combinatorial problems have been categorized into those with no training time (good fit for out-of-the-box algorithms such as the Parameter-less Population Pyramid), those with short training time (good fit for typical evolutionary algorithms), and those with long training time (good fit for hyper-heuristics).

The TORCS simulator also has an interface for Matlab and Simulink. This means that controllers can be developed for TORCS using Matlab. Using Matlab simply means that the whole hassle of interfacing with TORCS should become a lot easier. The source code is present at GitHub.

VerifiableAutonomy/TORCSLink

TORCSLink – An interface between The Open Source Race Car Simulator (TORCS) and MATLAB/Simulink (or anything else…)

TORCS is also available through Ubuntu’s software center. You can install it from here.

TORCS

TORCS, The Open Racing Car Simulator, is a car racing simulation, which allows you to drive in races against opponents simulated by the computer. You can also develop your own computer-controlled driver (also called a robot) in C or C++. TORCS is GPL (version 2 or later).

The following video shows how TORCS works on a user’s desktop.

TORCS Fuzzy Logic Robot

An AI racing robot wrote by me and my friend Miłosz Kosobucki as final assignment for Fuzzy Set Theory course (winter 2009/2010) at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. It’s written in C and uses The Open Racing Car Simulator (http://torcs.sourceforge.net) API.

Photo by SFB579 Namaste

ECJ is a well known evolutionary computing software that is written by Sean Luke at George Mason University. It is written entirely in Java. There is another sister project of ECJ that is MASON. MASON is for modeling mobile agents in an artificial environment. MASON dovetails very well with ECJ. This means that ECJ can be used to evolve agents for MASON which have reasonable intelligence in a meaningful sense to maneuver themselves in the MASON environment.

The idea is to closely inspect how MASON is dovetailed with ECJ. Once this is understood, the next thing to be done is to figured out that how some other software can be dovetailed with ECJ. In particular, it would be really nice to figure out a way to dovetail TORCS with ECJ. Similarly, it would be nice to figure out a dovetailing of UAV Playground with ECJ. This can be a nice FYP and is expected to have many benefits.

What is dovetailing by the way? The term merits some explanation. Dovetailing, as the name suggests, is to integrate two software together so that one runs the other.

Photo by fusion-of-horizons