Learning Control for an Xpilot-AI Agent Playing Capture the Flag

摘要

Xpilot-AI is an environment where researchers can test autonomous agent control and learning programs. It is based on Xpilot, which is an open source, 2d space combat game. Xpilot-Al allows a programmer to write scripts that control an agent playing a game of Xpilot. In previous work, a wide range of techniques have been used to develop controllers that are focused on the combat skills for an Xpilot agent. In this research, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used to evolve the parameters for an expert agent solving the more challenging problem of capture the flag.