Daily Progress

Our day-by-day progress in developing a solution to the Wumpus World Problem (in and out of class meetings)

11/16/2020

• Downloaded the necessary software

• Learned how the game is played

11/18/2020

• Developed our first rough algorithm

11/19/2020

• Ran into downloading issues

• Assessed and talked about the problem

• Continue to develop our algorithm as we tested different maps

  • Decided to always shoot the wumpus when found

  • Discussed how to locate pit and wumpus

• Laid out next steps

11/23/2020

• Ran through the simulation as a group

• Tested our algorithm to find possible bugs

• Made improvements on the rough algorithm

• Developed a solid foundation

11/29/2020

• Solidified the plan for the algorithm

• Started first steps of coding

  • Laid out where everything goes

• Added more pages to the website

• Updated progress page

11/30/2020

• Began coding based upon our algorithm

• Solidified a plan for the structure of what we needed to develop

• Realized (0,0) is the bottom left corner rather than top left corner

  • Made a note to account for this in the future

12/1/2020

• Individual coding

  • Created the methods and functions we would use in the move function

    • Neighbor function

    • Our own board to keep track of everything we've encountered

    • Function that saves moves

    • Function that checks and updates our grid based upon given conditions

    • Function to call when location of gold is identified

    • Function to return home after getting the gold

    • Function to kill Wumpus

    • Function that determines whether or not the next desired space is safe

12/2/2020

• Made changes to the code so that it's more efficient

• Accounted for (0,0) being at the bottom left corner

• Worked on the move function

  • Ran into issues with trying to get our robot to move all the way back to the left after it encounters an obstacle

12/3/2020

• Discussed functions we had written individually

• Tried to run the program and realized our robot isn't moving

  • Debugged

  • Made some changes to our move function

  • Gave our robot more methods

• Talked about the next steps of implementing these functions in our move function

• Began addressing the move function directly

12/4/2020

• Started testing our code on the simulation provided to make sure it runs

• Realized our wumpus would fall off the board in some scenarios; fixed this

• Continued debugging

  • Realized we we're not reading the state correctly, and therefore causing our robot not to move past the second square

• Touch ups on the website

  • Check out our shop!

12/5/2020

• Continued work on functions, mainly focusing on the move function

• Had difficulty in setting a condition to be true for multiple moves

  • Fixed this problem by initializing the variable within the class

12/6/2020

• Tested our code on multiple maps to ensure it was running properly

• Attempted to make the robot work given multiple conditions by updating our grid function

  • Ran into a bug that caused our code to run incorrectly altogether; robot would go into pits/Wumpus/off board

  • Spent time individually and as a team trying to fix this bug

  • After finally fixing the bug in our code, we ran into other issues

    • Robot would not kill Wumpus using the function

  • Continued to test our robot

  • Realized our robot works for a decent percentage of maps, except for a few scenarios

12/7/2020

• Attempted to fix the bug that would not run the function to kill the Wumpus properly

• Fixed a bug with the glitter/gold, ensuring that once the robot found the gold, it would return home

• Continued to try to fix the Wumpus, as well as double scenario issues for the remainder of the time