Nupic Guided Shufflepuck: "nupuck"

This project was developed for the Numenta Hackathon, Spring 2014

nupuck initially based on TuxPuck at https://code.google.com/p/tuxpuck/

After hacking the port to build on MacOS Mavericks and homebrew, input for nupic was generated as a field of view from the point of the human player. (see docs/field_of_view_two_eyes.jpg). When the puck appears to the left, the human player's bat is moved to the left. Similarly to the right when the puck appears to the right.

Generated data is written to stdout, then filtered using command line tools (awk, etc.) to build eye.csv. Ultimately, this data was used to create two models using nupic swarms. One model to predict the future position of the left eye, and one for the right. Models were built using swarms predicting 40, 70, and 100 time steps out, and are located in this repository at models/l47x and models/r47x.

During gameplay, a local socket server is run from model_pipe.py which receives input from the a client in the tuxpuck executable, and returns the predictions from each of the two models created above.

The predictions are ultimately used to move of the human player's bat in the instances when the lower level behavior doesn't move the bat. Other combinations of predictive and primative behavior are possible.