Interface ITreeAlgAgent

All Superinterfaces:

IAgent

All Known Implementing Classes:

TreeDeployAgent

public interface ITreeAlgAgent
extends IAgent

Method Summary

java.lang.reflect.Type	getAnnoteType() Mike, add some comments here
IMsg	getMsgAnnotation(ILogicVarBundle vars, double[] arrLfState, int nIdx) gets the message to annotate the TreeConstraintState recieved by neighbors in TreeConstraintAgent algorithm
java.util.Comparator<TreeConstraintState>	getPrefComp(TreeConstraintState agentSorting) gets a comparator for sorting ITreeAlgAgent nodes by preference
ITreeAlgAgent	makeCopy() in case the agent has some internal state, this allows synchronized wrapper calls to cache a snapshot of the agent at some rational point in time.

Methods inherited from interface IAgent

checkStateValidity, getMsgs, updateState

Method Detail

getMsgAnnotation

IMsg getMsgAnnotation(ILogicVarBundle vars,
                      double[] arrLfState,
                      int nIdx)

gets the message to annotate the TreeConstraintState recieved by neighbors in TreeConstraintAgent algorithm

Parameters:

vars - logic state of this agent.

arrLfState - position of whole swarm (requires programmer discipline to only access current robot's position)

nIdx - index of current robot.

Returns:

something deriving form IMsg must be what this agent's getPrefComp is expecting.

getPrefComp

java.util.Comparator<TreeConstraintState> getPrefComp(TreeConstraintState agentSorting)

gets a comparator for sorting ITreeAlgAgent nodes by preference

Returns:

getAnnoteType

java.lang.reflect.Type getAnnoteType()

Mike, add some comments here

Returns:

makeCopy

ITreeAlgAgent makeCopy()

in case the agent has some internal state, this allows synchronized wrapper calls to cache a snapshot of the agent at some rational point in time. If the agent has no internal state, this function can just return "this".

Specified by:

makeCopy in interface IAgent