Pogamut 2 Platform for fast development of the cognitive agents inside 3D environment

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Pogamut 2 Platform for fast development of the
cognitive agents inside 3D environment
Faculty of mathematics and physics Charles
University at Prague January 2008

• Jakub Gemrot, Rudolf Kadlec,
• Michal Bída, Ondrej Burkert,
• Jan Havlícek, Cyril Brom

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What are the guys from Prague doing?

• human-like agents in 3D enviroments
• navigation in virtual reality, computer games,
  virtual storytelling
• available tools or platform insufficient

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Big picture what is Pogamut 2 ?

• platform for fast development of the cognitive
  agents
• testbed for cognitive architectures providing
  environment, problems and agent stubs
• hard to make good 3D world simulators
• gt computer games

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Unreal Tournament2004
Extensible and adaptable 3D engine.
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Community driven
Strong community, a lot of free and quality
materials.
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Faces of the Pogamut 2
Modular architecture
Easy to connect existing planners
NetBeans plugin (Java 1.6)
Integrated Development Environment
UT2004 powered
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Architecture
Our adaptation of Gamebots
EPIC
our own contribution
Exports information
Translating text messages to java objects
Simulates the world
Model of the agent
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IDE screenshot
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Some of the platform features
Remote Control
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Some of the platform features
Introspection
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Some of the platform features
Experiments

• validation of the agents
• allows to create a scenario for agents and run
  them multiple times
• events
• rule based engine (JBoss Rules)

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Video
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Ongoing projects

• Research on artificial emotions
• Genetic evolution of complex behaviors (using
  grid of UT2004 servers)
• Research on episodic memory
• Agents coordination and cooperation

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Thank you for your attention!
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• Questions ?