Genetic Rockets

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2 pointsMindTwister5 comments

Blog post belonging to the project: http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/project-smart-rockets

and followup http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/7-days-of-source-day-5-sm...

I'd love to know what the fitness function is for these rockets' flights, but it doesn't seem to be discussed anywhere.

I guess that's hitting the target avoiding the obstacle (text) without consuming all the fuel and crashing to the ground

Perhaps also avoiding bounces gives some bonus

But if none of them hit the target, what then? How are some chosen to be more fit than the others? Flying longer? Covering more ground? These are useless fitness functions.

As I say, I'd love to know what he's actually using. I've done quite a lot of work in genetic, ballistic, swarm and annealing optimisation systems, and I can't work it out.

I built my own project based on this with balancing rockets, my fitness function was based on a penalty for crashing and extra points for distance to target, i also added a small bonus for fuel left to let them slowly optimize their flight.

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