These are the agents used by The Black Sheep (Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland) at the Robocup Rescue Simulation League competition in 2003.

All these agents are run with the rescuecore system, available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/rescuecore

To run the agents simply use the rescuecore.AgentSystem agent loader. A file called 'agents' is provided that will start all the agent types within the AgentSystem.

The command line to launch the AgentSystem is:

java -cp rescuecore.jar rescuecore.AgentSystem -h

The '-h' flag tells the system to print a help message. To run the agents you can use:

java -Xmx256m -cp rescuecore.jar:rescue.jar rescuecore.AgentSystem --agents agents

You need the '-Xmx256m' flag to give the virtual machine enough memory to run the agents - each agent does some fairly elaborate processing of the city data when connecting.

If the simulator is not running on the local machine then you can use the --host and --port flags to tell the AgentSystem where to look. Please consult the rescuecore documentation for further instructions.

Everything here should work "out of the box" - you just need to make sure that rescuecore.jar and rescue.jar are in your classpath.

If you have any trouble then please contact Cameron Skinner (cam@cs.auckland.ac.nz) - he might be able to help.