Fang Xinghong (Jave) and Professor Graham Kendall have just attended a conference in Copenhagen (The 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG).
Jave's team entered an "Automated Pac-Man" competition which they developed as part of their second year group project. The aim of this competition was to provide the best software controller for the game of Ms Pac-Man.
As a result of this work, the team were fortunate enough to have a paper accepted at the conference, which Jave presented. The team also took part in the live competition play off, which took place during the conference.
The Nottingham entry came a very respectable third. In second place were last years winners. In first place was a new team who used an Ant Colony based method.
If you want to read more about the software that was developed, please see:Bell N., Fang X., Hughes R., Kendall G., OReilly E. and Qiu S. (2010) Ghost Direction Detection and other Innovations for Ms. Pac-Man. In proceedings of the the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'10), 18-21 Aug 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp 465-472
Posted on Tuesday 28th February 2012