BlackHole/Old/Old

Black Hole
Black Hole
Author(s)	Nat
Extends	AdvancedRobot
Targeting	Pattern Matching
Movement	Wave Surfing
Best Rating	1783.8 (91th)
Current Version	0.1.03
Code Size	8710
Code License	NPL
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This robot will not be update for a long time to allow me to develop all planned new techniques. If you want to know my new idea, I'll take it on /Version2Ideas.

Take BasicSurfer, segmented the surfing stat, add rolling average, increased bins to 1001, change BinSmoothing and debugging graphics to something like DrussGT, add a flattener (which look like a hill). Now the movement is complete (I take 2 hours a day for 10 days!) so I started work on gun, at first I take a look at PEZ's VirtualBulletBot, but I don't want to use CustomEvent (I must have good class structure!) so I start on my own. I try to fit the DCBot's gun into virtual gun but it doesn't so I try a simple targeting and took a Pattern Matcher from Simonton's bot :).

Let's see classic template:

Background Information

What's special about it?

It's my truly first robot! and I think it has most bins in its Surfing Stats! (currently 5 * 5 * 3 * 3 * 1001 = 225225! [distance * move time * velocity * near wall * BINS])

How competitive is it?

We'll see!

Strategy

How does it move?

WaveSurfing: TrueSurf Style, with

Flattener! I work with it for a day! At first I random a guessfactor that has lower danger in my stats and go to it, but since it has 1001 bins, this make my performance drop. So, I create new stats that keep all guessfactor in 31 bins without RollingAverage and do the same behavior as before. (If you look in my code [WaveSurfing.java] you will see a flatMove() and flatMove2() that work as the first and second version I told you.) (I think this is one way doing flattener that flat with flat juice on top, is it, Voidious?)

• Lately, I figure out that unsegment flattener is worse than highly segment WaveSurfing!

How does it fire?

Virtual Guns Array:

• • Head-On Targeting
  • Linear Targeting
  • Circular Targeting
  • Linear Targeting with averaged velocity and heading (not seem to work)
  • Circular Targeting with averaged heading and velocity (not seem to work, too, but I saw my robot use this gun once)
  • Single-Tick Pattern Matching: borrow from WeeklongObsession.

What does it save between rounds and matches?

Surfing Stat, VGun rating and Pattern data between round.

Additional Information

Does it have any debugging graphics?

Yes, it has. I think it as good as in Phoenix:

It currently write an enemy distance and hit rate (I misspell it), flattener status, currently gun, and VGun hit table. It's also draw enemy waves, its future positions, and virtual bullets (It will draw itself waves whenever I add a gun that require wave.)

Can I use your code?

Sure, under term of NPL.

In version later than 0.1, source code is not included in .jar. If you want, contact me. I'll give it to you as soon as I check my email :)

Does it have any White Whales?

DrussGT, Phoenix, Shadow, Dookious: these my testbed and I still expected them to be defeated :)

(test with top bot are good in Premier League, but I will never got first rank by ELO/APS rating!)

Now added X2, Chalk, Horizon, Ascendent, SilverSurfer, CassiusClay, Musashi, WeekOnEnd and SandboxDT (I tried to run DT with my 1.6.2 for long time, now I use 1.6.0 and I can run it!) Those are carefully chose one-on-one testbed and my white whales, too.

When have time, I'll add ancient Cigarette, Raiko and Hydra to my testbed.

Not wonder if it like MC, I am truely hate RoboLeague!

What the next for your robot.

I planned to create new movement technique, I will explain it later when it's finished :)

Also with new gun! Current Simonton's gun is just a temporary gun.

What other robot(s) is it based on?

BasicSurfer! (the Wave Surfing), DrussGT (some of the BinSmoothing and debugging graphics), WeeklongObsession (the SingleTick PM gun [version prior than 0.2]).