Simulating Intelligent Behaviour of Moving Agents

📄 Project Abstract

The aim of this project was to investigate the simulation of intelligent moving behaviour using sheep and a sheepdog as the example. A program was to be developed to simulate the movement of a flock of sheep and a sheepdog. It was to extend a simulation of a flock of sheep in the existing Rapsoft software suite, written in the Prolog programming language. This modelled the sheep as Finite State Automata, with different states for the different activities of the sheep, including basic flocking behaviour. The sheepdog was to be modelled to react to the commands given to it by a user playing the part of the shepherd using the traditional sheepdog commands. The user was to be able to effectively manipulate the flock of sheep in the same way as would a shepherd. The program sought to simulate the real world as closely as possible. The aim was to determine whether the techniques used for the program (the Prolog language and the technique of Finite State Automata), and the algorithms used for...