Contents of this Document

• Rcssserver: This server is the one that sends all data to us and no control is given to us for it.
• Broadcast: This is the function for receiving information from the server. This will take the message and verify that is was received correctly and can be passed to the parser. Broadcast shall handle any errors that are passed to it and will discard the information if received incorrectly.
• Parser: The parser shall receive messages from the Broadcast class and break the message up into easily readable chunks of data. The class will then take strings from its parsing and store them into structures for passing into the data storage class. Each one of these structures will have respective types for information such as int, strings, floats, etc.. The data is then passed to the data storage class.
• SendMsg: The SendMsg function will get data from the data storage class when told by the Forward class to send messages to the server. These messages will first be seen as structures containing ints, strings, floats, etc. and then will be converted into a format that can be sent to the server for interpretation.
• Data Storage: The Data Storage class will be the class where all important information is kept for communication between the server and the forward class. SendMsg and Parser will be the main functions that will access this class for transmission to the server. The Forward class will access this class to pass data to its interpreters for decision making and AI functions.
• Forward: This class will be the transition between the Artificial Intelligence functions and the data storage class. It will pull in information from the data storage class and pass it to the appropriate functions for decision making. If the forward sees that a player or coach has communicated with it then they will also interpret that and send that to the server.
• Coach Interpreter: The coach interpreter class will be given the structure that was passed to the data storage class and will implement the correct course of action depending on what was said. This class might have communications with the AI of the Forward or the Player interpreter to better handle the situation. Some examples of situations that might come up would be if the coach shouted that the ball was heading towards one of the forwards. This class should interpret this and the balls location to correctly move the player towards the ball.
• Player Interpreter: This interpreter will be similar to the coach interpreter, the only main differences will be that it will interpret what other players say to the forward. This function might be called several times during communication if several of the players communicate with the forward. The players may tell the forward that they are going to pass the ball to him/her and the program should move into position and decide what to do with the ball afterwards.
• Forward's Artificial Intelligence: This part of the AI will decide what to do with the sensory information that it has received from the server. It will take in information about the field, flags, and other players to decide what the next action should be to best run a play. The class might also pull the information in from what the coach and players say to better make a decision. An example would be if the forward had the ball then where should it kick it to further its position up field without giving it to the other team.