MSC: Gen2 ANN Experiment

Today start the experiment with the 2nd generation sigmoidal ANNs.

MSC: Submitted to HIS 2011

Dr J finally replied my email. What a relief!
So I continued on and submitted my 1st paper to HIS 2011 top cnference.

Thank You Jesus. Amen.

MSC: Paper ready for submission

Finish adding in the path driven and SNN spike train. Also revised ES to EP.
Revised some format to reflect the IEEE format for HIS2011


I finished revising it to how Dr J suggested, and sent him another email with the doc for a final review. Then, the paper will be sent to HIS2011.
Should be able to submit soon, before Sept 20.

EDIT: Registered with easychair, to submit paper to HIS2011 in Malacca

MSC: Paper Revised by Dr J

Dr J replied my email with an attached and revised document of the paper. He took out a few paragraphs and said to keep them for next paper.

Some things Dr J suggested include adding a chart of the SNN spike train, and revise ES to EP.

MSC: The evolved controllers beat me

there were some round, the evolved controller  had almost took over the leading car, but bangged on it and both the cars skidded, but the evolved controller could not recover from the crash and stayed there.

lap7: > 10sec behind

the controllers evolved on track 1 usually started slow, most likely due to the unoptimized automatic transmission, but would later overtake its oponents after one or two laps.

controllers evolved on track 2 were able to generalize on track 1, but could only complete one fifth of track 3.

controllers evolved on track 3 were able to generalize on both track 1 and 2.

controllers evolved on track 1 were not able to generalize on both track 2 and 3.



i lost to the evolved controller on both track 1 and 2, butnot track 3 despite the difficulty controlling the car.


the gear change played a very big impact

MSC: Suggested improvements and new discovery

Received a reply from Dr J yesterday.
Listed below are the suggested improvements and its state:

1. Use round figures to label the x-axis of your graphs (done)
2. Show more in-game screenshots of you SNN-driven car – although it is not of much scientific value here but nice pictures always gets attention
3. Think of plotting the path driven by the best evolved SNNs as they move across the track over the racing period
4. Avoid saying that your evolved controllers were so easily beaten by human and some of the included controllers.
5. Also, your explanation that humans cheat by flooring the accelerator is not convincing since if it is allowed in the game, then it is not cheating. What I meant by cheating is when the game AI controllers break rules such as achieving top speed immediately (as opposed to flooring the accelerator but gradual build-up of speed) or in the case of RTS, being able to see through fog-of-war, then that’s cheating. So I recommend that you amend the way you are currently explaining this point.
6. Please add in a detailed description of your fitness function including a mathematical formula for it. (done)

Discovered something new. In track 1, the controller is able to start by flooring the gas pedal, but it is still slower than the other car because of the gear change strategy. The evolved controller increased gear earlier than the static controller, hence picked up speed slower than it.

Drew track path, but...

Notice that
championship2011server uses a car1-trb1 and the others bot using the same car are:

• tita 3
• berniw 3
• olethros 3
• lliaw 3
• inferno 3
• bt 3