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=== Yoda ===
http://www.starwars-tw.com/story/character/jedi/yoda-ep2.jpg </center>

=== Bot Name ===
[[Yoda]] -- version 1.0.5a

==== Author ====

[[Gorded]]

==== Extends ====

AdvancedRobot

==== What's special about it? ====

My first Robot in RR@home  -- released

Yoda has now become my final summative project for my computer science class at school.
So because of this a few things had to change in order for it be accepted as a challenge and so
Yoda will house a revolutionary plugin system unlike the normal pluggable movements/guns on this site.

==== How does it work? ====

Yoda's base class defines defines some low level behaviours

* energy tracking -- so it can call the extended method onRobotFire(double deltaEnergy)
* quick-Scan radar with 100% lock 
* defines the PluginManger which is in the form of the traditional (pluggable) system

The PluginManager dynamically loads all Classes in its package that implement the interface Plugin

Yoda will ship with two plugins

* Gun Array 
* Movement Array

The Gun Array loads all Classes in the guns/ sub-folder that extend from the Gun class
and acts like a virual gun array

The Movement Array loads all Classes in the moves/ sub-folder that extend from the Movement class
and cycles through each movement and then uses the movement with the lowest Hit ratio
 
(Plugins, Guns and Movements can be added on the fly without modifing any source code, even in the middle of a battle
but wont be loaded until the next round)

For my Project my teacher wants us to get beta testers, so in my case i need some
people to create Plugin, Movement or Gun

I you are interested in becoming a beta tester please e-mail me at gorded@hotmail.com and/or 
add me on Msn. I will provide you with a template for making either a Plugin, Movement or Gun. The
beta testing process will begin after the first release of Yoda which will included fully documented source
and an API generated from javadoc

==== Great, I want to try it. Where can I download it? ====

http://www.robocoderepository.com/BotDetail.jsp?id=3260

==== How competitive is it? ====

[[Yoda]] 18/5/2007 yoda has a rating of 1846.21 with a momentum of 35.6, I happy with this for now :)

==== How does it [[Movement|move]]? ====

* Ataru a form of True Surfing

in the future i will add

* Soresu a form of Shrapnel Surfing

==== How does it fire? ====

* GuessFactor gun

in the future i will add

* Anti-Surfer Gun

==== How does it [[DodgingBullets|dodge bullets]]? ====

Ataru

==== Victory Dance ====

When [[Yoda]] wins he takes off his clothes and dances naked on the battle field :()

==== What does it save between rounds and matches? ===

* between rounds: all gun and surf stats.

==== Where did you get the name? ====

The name is from my favourite character from Star Wars. The inspiration for naming my bot after the great jedi master come from Voidious
and his bots Dookious and Lukious etc.

==== Can I use your code? ====

Yep, its in the jar. I haven't gotten around to javadocing the source.

==== What's next for your robot? ====

==== Does it have any [[WhiteWhale]]s? ====

[[SandboxDT]] and [[Dookious]]

==== What other robot(s) is it based on? ====

The two bots i have been looking at for guidance and idea's are [[Dookious]] and [[CassiusClay]] i have come to envy 
[[CassiusClay]]'s lack of spasming on the field :)

Spasming is the effect created by the indecision of a robot using True Surfing

==== Credits ====

=== Version History ===

v1.0 initial release

v1.0.1 removed use of Rules class for RoboRumble

v1.0.2 removed the used of SetAllColor as it doesn't exists in robocode 1.0.7

v1.0.3 added some energy management to guns (minimal)

v1.0.4 added more segments to wave surfing stats

v1.0.5 changes in segmentation in both guns and surfing and when waves are fired

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==== Comments, questions, feedback: ====

You say it beats Dookious? Interesting, I would like to see that source code. Actually i'm surprised Voidious hasn't already made a bot called Yodious. =) --[[Chase-san]]

Heh... I never quite found the right bot to call Yodious, and I'm not planning to use Star Wars names any more =) -- [[Voidious]]

I believe i said does fairly well, beating Dookious about 25% - 35% of the time depending on luck, but this was my old bot Thundar, [[Yoda]] i expect to do better, especially with the anti-surfer gun i am working on. -- [[Gorded]]

Over how many rounds? --[[Chase-san]]

I usually only test on 10 rounds and 100. The normal 500 takes too long -- [[Gorded]]

Hmm, "normal 500"? For what it's worth, that's not normal for me - I generally run 35-round battles, as that's what used in the RoboRumble. =) -- [[Voidious]]

Hmmm.. Wow i thought that since most of the challenges say to run around 500 round to get a good reading so i thought thats what most people do, 35 thats alot better and faster, thanx.  I may not need as many segments on Yoda than i thought. Maybe just for nice scores in the challenges :)

Thats the reason there are also FastLearning challenges, they resemble more the roborumble setup. The results may vary a lot though, so more 'seasons' of 35 rounds would be advised. (and RoboLeague recommended for running it)  -- [[GrubbmGait]]

I wanna see this thing in the rumble. :D --[[Chase-san]]

Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are. --[[Yoda]]

Speak not as a master, when you are yet a padawan. ;) --[[Chase-san]]

Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice. --[[Yoda]]

Any one interested in beta testing the plugin system when yoda is release, i need at least 3 people to meet the requirements for my project -- [[Gorded]]

* I`m the first :) --[[Krabb]]

Does any one have any idea for how to manually package a robot for use in robocode. Robocode doesn't not package classes that aren't explictly used  by the robot -- [[Gorded]]

A .jar is compressed with a .zip compression, so you could use any .zip util to create a .jar, hypothetically. I have certainly used "zip" at the command line (I'm on a Mac, which is BSD underneath) to re-package a bot. Something like: <code>zip -r voidious.Dookious_1.543.jar ./voidious/*</code>, for instance. You could also do some dummy code to reference the unused classes to "trick" the Robocode packager into packagaing them. And [[David Alves]] uses Ant to package his bots, I think he's posted some info on the wiki somewhere about doing that. -- [[Voidious]]

On the [[Ant]] page, of course! --[[David Alves]]

Thanks for the help [[Voidious]], Yoda now can dynamic load its movement guns and plugins on Linux/Windows in/outside side of a .jar file which is a great step. Now all that is ahead before Yoda's release is segmenting his waveSurfing and guessfactor gun. -- [[Gorded]]

Unsegmented and it beats Dookious? Wow, thats one heck of a bot! (I am entirely joking, I realize whats really going on ;) ) --[[Chase-san]]

Thanks [[Krabb]] for being the first to help out with my beeta testing stage, i still looking for two more people who would be interested in beta testing the plugin system. 
And for a little update on Yoda release status, if finishing up segmenting the Wave surfing and guessFactor plugins after i'm doing a complete clean up and finishing the commenting. I expect to release it by next Weekend. -- [[Gorded]]

If you want to contact me directly choose your favorite communication tool and use my info [[ContactInfo|here]]. --[[Krabb]]

I'd be happy to write a plug in for you also. -- [[Kev]]

Any one who has said they will make a plugin, gun or movement to help me with my project, i have packages sample plugins with the .jar. All gun plugins are in rc.yoda.plugin.guns and must extend rc.yoda.utils.Gun.  Movement plugins are in rc.yoda.plugin.moves and must extend from rc.yoda.utils.Movement.  And regular plugins are in rc.yoda.plugin and must implement the interface rc.yoda.plugin.Plugin.  For a plugin to be loaded it must reside in the directory of its brothers

An simple example of a regular Plugin is the MovementArray in rc.yoda.plugin, If you have any questions about making a plugin don't hesitate to add me on msn and ask me or e-mail me. When you have finished writing the plugin i would ask you to please write a few comments and your general feeling about the plugin system and email that to me aswell as a copy of the plugin (wont be packages with Yoda thats is entered in RR@home), my email is Gorded@hotmail.com. Thank you -- [[Gorded]]

It seems that RR@Home (both client and server) can not handle bots without versionnumber, although Robocode itself has no problem with it. Also Yoda makes use of the Rules-class. Therefor it will not (yet) get a ranking.  -- [[GrubbmGait]]

I grabbed a copy of Yoda and shoved it into a battle against some of my bots. Take these with a grain of salt, as thier run over only 35 rounds. My little girl Velshea 1.2.1 (odd revision number is dev) demolishes Yoda, and proceeds to wipe the floor with his green remains. However vs my much better bot Seraphim, Yoda's lightsaber strikes true and takes the multi-color angel apart. Yoda easily wades through my collection of incomplete and development robots. --[[Chase-san]]

@[[GrubbmGait]] ok thanks ill repackage it with a version number a change the Rules usage -- [[Gorded]]

Ok, Yoda has been re-pacakaged with these corrections made and an anti-surferish gun which makes it preform alot better. A full rewrite of Yoda is on its way
with some insane ideas aswell as separate package for the plugin manager, if there are any other problems with yoda that prevent it from entering the roborumble just give me a shout, and for those who have kindly offered to make a plugin for beta testing, how its it coming? are there any questions or problems? -- [[Gorded]]
* I just reloaded the Rumble to test Yoda and it failed.  Are you using the Robocode client to package the bot? (Menu: Robot | Package robot for upload) It makes things simpler. - Martin
**It may be related to the repository crashing yet again. -Martin
* Try it again i think i accidentally packaged it wrong, i tried it again and it seems to work now --[[Gorded]]
**It downloaded but I think it is having an issue with crashing, which is likely Robocode version related (I have 1.2.6A) -- Martin
***Actually it works fine with 1.2.6A.  I run the rumble with old faithful (1.0.7) -- Martin
****I looked into this and it crashed because Yoda calls setAllColor which doesn't exist in 1.0.7 so i fixed this and added some energy management to the circular gun that comes with Yoda which used to fire power 3 all the time :( -- [[Gorded]]

A quick thought on "spasming": I don't think I'd call it "indecision". A bot with GoTo-style surfing chooses the safest spot and goes to it. A bot with TrueSurfing will pretty much end up at the same spot, but its algorithm will take a much weirder route to it because it's only checking 3 movement options each tick; it really is deciding on the safest spot each tick. I think this is actually advantageous in terms of throwing off enemy targeting, too.

I would say check out SilverSurfer to see a true lack of spasming, as it's the only high level surfer I know of that uses GoTo style surfing. Maybe [[Ascendant]] has some GoTo in it, too. (I agree that CassiusClay is a really fun bot to watch, though, very fluid...)

-- [[Voidious]]

It is not friday, but the school work is boring... I looked at your Plugin system and i have a few questions :) I'll add you in MSN. --[[Krabb]]

Yoda 1.0.5 is not performing as expected, and it used a HUGE amount of memory. My RR-client is crawling through the battles.  -- [[GrubbmGait]]

Ya, sorry about that i went a bit wild with the segmentation, although when i put Yoda 1.0.5 against a few test bots he preformed extrodinaraly well and kicked the previous version around the sandbox with a score of 28wins - 7loses, but i will fix a few things with the segmenting and release a new version :) -- [[Gorded]]

This is probably going to be the last release of Yoda, untill after the rewrite, I'm changing alot of his strategy and making him a smarter bot. Probably going to try out Dynamic Clustering =) -- [[Gorded]]

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