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Sensing position of met robots #1535

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kostmo opened this issue Sep 17, 2023 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1541
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Sensing position of met robots #1535

kostmo opened this issue Sep 17, 2023 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1541
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L-Commands Built-in commands (e.g. move, try, if, ...) in the Swarm language. Z-Feature A new feature to be added to the game.

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kostmo commented Sep 17, 2023 •
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There are now a lot of entity sensing commands (related: #1171), but a dearth of robot-sensing commands.

Define a new command named ping for obtaining relative coordinates to an already met robot (i.e., you have obtained a "reference" to that robot). This command would be enabled by a transponder device (perhaps, required by both robots).

The physical justification/rationale could be that initially meeting "face-to-face" allows exchange of "transponder codes" between friendly robots.

This may call for a new Robot attribute that distinguishes between robots that are "friendly" or not. Perhaps we should not be allowed to give items to an unfriendly robot.

Avoiding "instantaneous communication" loophole

This functionality should have a limited range so that information can not be leaked over great distances.
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xsebek commented Sep 17, 2023

Maybe the robots that share the same ancestors are friendly?

For other robots, we could have a handshake system where the robots have to mutually meet (within some timeout). A game state map of initiated handshakes in the last tick(s) could be checked when meeting robots and if the handshake is completed we would update those robots friendly set.

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byorgey commented Sep 17, 2023

Why does it require keeping track of "friendly" robots? Simply requiring an actor value as argument to the ping command sounds great.

As for keeping track of friendly robots, see #462 and #506.

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kostmo commented Sep 18, 2023 •
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Why does it require keeping track of "friendly" robots?

In the adversarial case, I might not want the base to continuously know the position of the "bad guy" just due to having "met" him once in passing.

Though, perhaps there is a case for an alternate command, track, that might allow such a thing despite being an adversary, as if an AirTag were stealthily slipped into their pocket...

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byorgey commented Sep 18, 2023

Re: limited range, see RobotRange and the comments on the focusedRange function: https://github.com/swarm-game/swarm/blob/main/src/Swarm/Game/State.hs#L868-L901.

In the adversarial case, I might not want the base to continuously know the position of the "bad guy" just due to having "met" him once in passing.

I guess that makes sense, I'm just trying to prevent unnecessary complexity.

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ping command (#1541)
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Closes #1535
# Demo

    scripts/play.sh -i scenarios/Testing/1535-ping/1535-in-range.yaml --autoplay
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