Autonomous Agents

• In the context of this module, autonomous agents are things in the game that move around under their own control.
• That is, they make decisions about how to move.
• You can also have agents moving about the Internet looking for the best flight, but that's a bit outside the scope of this module.
• You can also have agents in the real world (robots), but again that's a bit outside the module.
• There are two big components to moving an agent around the game world.
  1. The physics of the agent moving.
  2. The decisions the software makes about moving.
• Buckland breaks the physics into steering and locomotion.
• I might also break decisions into deliberative and reflexive.