Part B

Introduction

This section describes what you have to do and what you have to deliver for

Part B of the mid$-$term CM$3020$ AI coursework.

For this part of the coursework, you need to build on top of the codebase from

the Genetic Algorithm$/$ Creatures case study. Your objective is to adapt the

evolutionary algorithm so that the creatures evolve to complete a new task.

The new task involves climbing a mountain. We have created a special new

environment for the creatures to operate in$.$ You need to integrate the genetic

algorithm code to that new environment such that it evolves creatures that can

climb the mountain.

The following image illustrates the new environment:

Figure $1$: Mountain climbing environment

You can see that there is a kind of sandbox with a mountain in the middle.

The idea is for the creature to get as high as possible up the mountain, without

cheating and flying into the air. Your job is to integrate that new environment

into the simulation code and to adapt the fitness function so it measures maximum

closeness to the top of the mountain.

How to complete the coursework

Download the code for the new environment, linked below. You will see that I

have included the code as it stood at the end of my development work. There

are also some new scripts in there: