Re: [Swarm-Support] setting flags for agents

[Steve Railsback]

address@hidden wrote:
> I am trying to give agents memory of where they have walked.  To do this I am 
> creating a flag in a class Cell (similar to HabitatCell in StupidModel). 
> Currently, all agents can set and get this flag by:
>
> Cell flags = (cell) cellWorld.getObjectAtX$Y(myX, myY);
> flags.setFlag(num);
> flags.getFlag(num);
>
> As each agent walks through the Grid2dImpl space they change the flag from a 0 
> to one.  The agents can then see where others have walked and not walk on those 
> spaces.  I do not want this feature.  I would like the agents to set and get 
> their own flags, which will allow them to only see where they have walked. Any 
> suggestions on how to do this with Java Swarm 2.2.

One alternative is for each agent to keep a list of cells it has been 
in, as its "memory". The agent can check whether it has been to some 
cell simply by whether its list of previously-visited cells contains 
that cell.

Steve R.