AI

During the second half of the minor, we had a project where we had to apply our knowledge by creating a video game in Unity. This was a group project consisting of 6 members from the minor, each from a different study of the TU delft. During this project, my main responsibility was to lead the group in successfully creating a game. To do so we utilised Scrum and I learned how to be the scrum master. Next to being the scrum master, I helped out with the game design, game UI and game Graphics. I also programmed an evolutionary algorithm into our game which made created a dynamic difficulty with the enemies adapting to the playstyle of the player.

Exhaustion is a feature to help prevent players injuries. It should the players how much energy they have exerted compared to how much energy they normally have. It does this by creating a profile for each player conisting of data about each training they have and the forces they exerted throughout each training.

Having generated the data we set out to optimize the Roomba. To do so we wanted to create a map of how the room looks, what hotspots of the dirt are and how they changed throughout the week. With that map, we wanted to create an optimal route for the Roomba to run sometimes to only clean the hotspots of dirt and do a full clear of the room once a week. Making the Roomba overall more efficient and effective. 
To do so we split up the work, my group mates set out to create the maps using classification learning, fitting neural networks and time series neural networks. I set out to generate the optimal path for the Roomba to take through a certain room.

To play and manipulate the music we used Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi. Pure Data is a visual open-source programming language for multimedia. It gives us basic music controls, such as pause, play, forwards and backwards but also more advanced such as speeding up or slowing down the music and adding low and high pass filters.  Pure Data receives its command to apply these controls through TCP communication from a python script that is also running on the Rapsberry Pi. This python script gets input form the adruino through the serial port uses this to determine what commands to send to Pure Data.

To design this we first decided on a product and context. A bedside lamp that helps you with phone usage in bed. From there we looked at what behaviour characteristics the product should have. For this, we went with an overprotective girlfriend that is also demanding and aggressive. Based on these characteristics a storyboard, behaviour flow and an early prototype were created. This behaviour was then sketched out in a video.