progess

All the testing is now done and ive started organising the results that were dumped to text files into an excel sheet to make charts etc.

Ive spotted a few that might have to be done again.

I've now started wrting up my results section. I have finished the methodology section completely and will go back to it at a later date.

I have also briefly planned out what will be in the conclusions/ future work sections

testing

I have now fixed the problem i was having previously. Testing is now able to continue. Again, still just reading over my dissertation while running the tests as it is taking up most of my time

Progress

Managed to get more test done, however, hit a problem with the fact that it was running in release instead of debug, which meant that for some reason, a few minor changes that were made didnt actually apply to the program. This lead to several tests having to be scrapped.

To solve this, I'm going to have to completely redo several tests just to make sure that the results are fine.

As for the dissertation, I have been proof readin what i already have and rewording several sections at a time to make them read better

Testing

I have now managed to get up to test 20 which has involved running the program almost 600 times! I aim to have all the testing finished by the end of this week so that I can go back to working on my dissertation.

Update

I've spent the last few days completly re-writting sections of my dissertation. The fuzzy logic section of the literature review, as well as the FIS and FuSM sections have been reworded. The FIS and FuSM methodology has also had some re-wording and extra information put into them. Made a start on the Environment section of the methodology but decided to leave it untill the project has finished as I'm planning to redo parts of the environment code if I get the chance.

I've started writing up the results plan. There is so much that can be tested with this project that I'm having to spend a good deal of time working out what I will include in the results section along with an explanation about what the result is telling me. I can see this taking a good few days, I will mostly likely have to schedule another meeting with my technical supervisor to go over it just before I finalise it and begin the testing.

I've also for the first time been able to run the application with everything in it and the manager running which has reveled to me several hidden bugs as well as things that I had simply forgotten about. I'm going through these and trying to fix them as they come up. However, with the manager running, the ecosystem does seem to maintain itself within a state of balance which is what I had been hopeing for.

Progress

I think that is now me officially finished implmenting the techniques into the application. The fuzzy inference system now feeds the final defuzzified value as input into the fuzzy state machine which then performs transitions based upon the input. 

All that really remains to be done with the techniques now is continue to tune them so that they work better together. Some of the techniques simply feed into empty functions, these will have to added to so that they now have an effect of the ecosystem. The fuzzy state machine at the moment does not actually do anything to the plant that it is monitoring, however this should not take long to adjust.

Continued to reword my FIS implentation section. I have one last thing to check on it before it is ready to be added into the first draft of my dissertation.

Progress Update

Earlier today I managed to get a defuzzification method working on the Fuzzy Inference System within the application and am now able to return a single crisp numerical value. This value will then be fed into the FuSM. This now means that all the techniques that were going to be implemented within the application have been created and added. Now that these techniques are in place I can focus on making them work together.

More work has continued on the creating of freely growing vegetation within the environment. While in theory the methodology in place for this should work fine, after about 40 new plants have been created the graphics side of the application locks up. The program itself does not die as the console window continues to print of data as the ecosystem ages. A cause and a solution to this problem have yet to be found.

Yesterday I completely re-done the  FIS methodology section as I found some much better research on it. I now have to go back and finish off the methodology for the FIS, writing about the Defuzzification method, and then further update the FuSM.

The implmentation of the environment itself also has to be written up.