Homework 1 - Spring 2003

	  Due date : February 10, 2pm

Goals:

The  purpose of  this assignment  is to  make you  understand  how the
wumpus world  simulator works. You have  to build a  reflex agent with
state as in Fig. 2.10 of the Russel and Norvig textbook.

The wumpus world simulator:

The wumpus world simulator is installed on dali.ai.uic.edu and each of
you  will be  provided with  an account  on the  server  (please email
piotr@cs.uic.edu with your preferred  email address to get the account
as soon  as possible!.)  Read  through the brief documentation  of the
simulator  at  http://dali.ai.uic.edu/AI2/wumpus/  and also  the  code
installed in  /usr/lib/wumpus/ on dali.   You will be provided  with a
skeleton code and you will only need to modify the MyPlayer.cc file to
build your agent.

IMPORTANT: All the homeworks build on the previous ones. Therefore the
code design should allow for proper incremental development.

Once you  write your C++  code, run the  'make' command and  build the
'wumpus' executable. If you have  access to a Unix workstation running
X server,  redirect your  display environment on  dali to  display the
graphical window on your client.  Otherwise the program will provide a
text output.

Also dali.ai.uic.edu allows only  secure connections. If you are using
a linux box connect using SSH client (ssh username@domain) or download
the windows client from www.ssh.com for a windows machine.


Assignment



* Read  through the documentation,  understand the  basics of  how the
simulator works.

* Implement a STATE  class to hold the required  information about the
agent (location,  arrows, gold etc.) and information  gained about the
current wumpus world.

* Implement   a  UPDATESTATE   procedure  that   updates   this  state
information based on the percepts received.

* Implement a  procedure CHOOSEACTION that returns an  action based on
the state information and the condition-action rules.

* Submit all your sources and makefile in a single .zip or .tar.gz
file to piotr@cs.uic.