FRC Neural Network Project

[bobwrit]

Link to the project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/frcnn/

This is the 'completed' form of a Neural Network that team 1977's programming team was throwing around in 2009. If you would like to contribute to the development, please PM me with your source forge account name so I can give you SVN access

Miscellaneous notes
* Controls the robot's drive
* Currently only supports 2 motors, the code to allow for 4 motors and up will be added at some point
* Unsure if fitness algorithm works or not, must be tested(but team 1977 can't because our 2009 robot is disassembled)
* Genetic Algorithms(what's used on the connections, by far the largest section of code) generally take 500-5,000 generations to fully optimize
* The drive function(Motor_Control() in the code) doesn't include the setting of the motors, this is specific to the teams robot(which jaguars/victors are connected where).
* Requires camera for the fitness function
* Camera code needs to be added
* Curently for the 2009 game. The reason for this is that the 2009 game was conceptually easier to write a fitness function for, and thus easier to build a neural network for. If you can think of a fitness function for Breakaway, please tell.
* The robot currently tries to drive away and avoid opposing robots. This can be made opposite(robot trying to go after opponents robots)
* Released under GPL


Again, this is Open Sourced, so if you would like to contribute, PM me with what your accounts name is.