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TankSoar 2.5 Tutorial

Tank-Soar is a more complex game used for the exercises in the second part of the tutorial.

Download TankSoar from one of these locations.

• TankSoar30 for Linux, (3.2 MB). Untar to create TankSoar25 directory.
• TankSoar30 for Windows, (1.9 MB). Open to create TankSoar25 folder.
• TankSoar25 for Macintosh, (2.6 MB). UnBinHex and dbl-click on archive to create TankSoar25 folder.

Notes on TankSoar:

• There are two modes for running: (1) a single decision cycle per environment update and (2) run all agents until they produce output. Multiple decisions per update, i.e. update environment on agent output, is not the default. It is an option you select under the "Tank" menu in the TankSoar control panel.
• You will notice that the bottom of the agent window is a little bit different. There are two sets of buttons. The ones on the left, the familiar RUN/STEP/STOP are grouped by the label "Evironment," and will step all of the agents for whatever setting is active (either decision cycle or wait until output.) The buttons on the right, PHASE/DECISION, will step only the agent in that interpreter. Clicking the phase button will cause the agent to proceed to the next phase; the decision button will go through a whole decision cycle. Note that neither the environment nor any of the other agents will be updated regardless of how many times you hit these buttons.
• If you have problems downloading these files, try something other than Netscape. Some versions have had problems with binary transfer.

If you have any questions about TankSoar, contact the author Mazin Assanie at mazina@eecs.umich.edu.

Documented at line 17 of file doc.soar