appletbots.directedballs
Class DirectedKicker

java.lang.Object
  appletbots.WorldObject
      appletbots.Agent
          appletbots.balls.Kicker
              appletbots.directedballs.DirectedKicker

public class DirectedKicker
extends Kicker

A directed kicker agent chooses a visible ball at random and tries to "kick" it so that the ball will move in the the bot's goal direction. The agent calculates the spot on the ball it needs to hit to knock the ball in the right direction. If it senses that moving directly towards the target spot will result in kicking the ball in another direction, the agent accelerates around the bot (orthagonal to the vector towards the target spot) until it can hit the target spot.

Author:

Erik Rasmussen

Field Summary

protected Vector

direction The goal direction

Fields inherited from class appletbots.Agent

accelerationVectorColor, maxAcceleration, sight, velocityVectorColor, world

Fields inherited from class appletbots.WorldObject

color, mass, maxSpeed, size

Constructor Summary

DirectedKicker(Vector direction, java.awt.Color color, int size, int sight, double maxSpeed, double maxAcceleration)
Constructs a new DirectedKicker with the given parameters

Method Summary

void	observeWorld() Observes the world, and follows the Directed Kicker Algorithm.

Methods inherited from class appletbots.balls.Kicker

chooseBall

Methods inherited from class appletbots.Agent

getAcceleration, getMaxAcceleration, getRandomAcceleration, getShowAcceleration, getShowVelocity, getSight, getVectorsToDraw, setAcceleration, setShowAcceleration, setShowVelocity, setWorld

Methods inherited from class appletbots.WorldObject

collidedWith, getColor, getMass, getMaxSpeed, getSize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

direction

protected Vector direction

The goal direction

Constructor Detail

DirectedKicker

public DirectedKicker(Vector direction,
                      java.awt.Color color,
                      int size,
                      int sight,
                      double maxSpeed,
                      double maxAcceleration)

Constructs a new DirectedKicker with the given parameters

Parameters:

direction - The agent's goal direction

color - The agent's color

size - The agent's radius

sight - The distance the agent can see

maxSpeed - The maximum speed the agent can travel

maxAcceleration - The maximum acceleration for this agent

Method Detail

observeWorld

public void observeWorld()

Observes the world, and follows the Directed Kicker Algorithm.

Overrides:

observeWorld in class Kicker