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📗 (Introduction) In this programming homework, you create a random maze and compare multiple uninformed and informed search algorithms.
📗 (Part 1) Create a \(h\) = ? by \(w\) = ? (height by width) rectangular orthogonal maze by parsing an image from the the Maze Generator: Link. You can also generate a random maze yourself using Recursive Backtracker or one of the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithms (Kruskal or Prim): Wikipedia or Link. Make sure you enter from the center square of the top row and exit from the center square of the bottom row.
An example:
You are allowed to use this example for your Question 1, it is generated using Recursive Backtracker. The advantage of creating your own maze is that you can get your successor matrix and the solution at the same time you create the maze.
📗 (Part 1) Plot the maze using | for vertical walls and -- for horizontal walls and + for intersections. Use @ to highlight the solution (not #). Below is an 15 by 15 example of such plot and the solution.
Example:
Solution:
📗 (Part 1) Use BFS and DFS to get the solution of the maze. Keep track of the squares you searched (expanded, or checked goal on).
📗 (Part 2) Use A* with the heuristic of Manhattan distance to the goal and Euclidean distance to the goal. Keep track of the squares you searched (expanded, or checked goal on).
📗 [5 points] Enter the successor matrix of the maze (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) strings, comma separated, each string represents the list of possible successors, a subset of the characters "U" "D" "L" "R"). Hint
📗 For each square \(\left(i, j\right)\) centered at \(\left(2 i + 1, 3 j + 1\right)\) and \(\left(2 i + 1, 3 j + 2\right)\) (i is the line index, j is the character index in the line), start with "": if \(\left(2 i, 3 j + 1\right)\) is " ", add "U", if \(\left(2 i + 2, 3 j + 1\right)\) is " ", add "D", if \(\left(2 i + 1, 3 j\right)\) is " ", add "L"; if \(\left(2 i + 1, 3 j + 3\right)\) is " ", add "R".
📗 You should use the successor matrix to solve the maze instead of the plot.
📗 [5 points] Enter the action sequence (one line, a sequence of characters "U" "D" "L" "R", no comma in between them). Hint
📗 Do not start or finish outside the maze: start inside the center square of the top row.
📗 [5 points] Enter the list of squares searched by BFS (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) integers either 0 or 1, 1 means searched, comma separated). Hint
📗 Use a Queue of pairs of numbers as the Queue. You can use an array or list too, but you have to implement the "enQueue" and "deQueue" operations first.
📗 Start by putting the entry square (center square of the top row) in the Queue.
📗 DeQueue \(\left(i, j\right)\) and find the string of the \(\left(i, j\right)\) element of the successor matrix: if it contains "U", enQueue \(\left(i - 1, j\right)\), if it contains "D", enQueue \(\left(i + 1, j\right)\), if it contains "L", enQueue \(\left(i, j - 1\right)\); if it contains "R", enQueue \(\left(i, j + 1\right)\).
📗 Repeat until the exit square (center square of the bottom row) is deQueued.
📗 [5 points] Enter the list of squares searched by DFS (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) integers either 0 or 1, 1 means searched, comma separated). Expand the successors in the order "U", "D", "L", "R" in case auto-grader does not accept other variations. Hint
📗 Use a Stack of pairs of numbers as the Stack. You can use an array or list too, but you have to implement the "Pop" and "Push" operations first.
📗 Start by putting the entry square (center square of the top row) in the Stack.
📗 Pop \(\left(i, j\right)\) and find the string of the \(\left(i, j\right)\) element of the successor matrix: if it contains "U", push \(\left(i - 1, j\right)\), if it contains "D", push \(\left(i + 1, j\right)\), if it contains "L", push \(\left(i, j - 1\right)\); if it contains "R", push \(\left(i, j + 1\right)\).
📗 Repeat until the exit square (center square of the bottom row) is popped.
📗 [5 points] Enter the Manhattan distances to the goal for each square in the maze (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) integers, comma separated). Hint
📗 The Manhattan distance between \(\left(i, j\right)\) and \(\left(i', j'\right)\) is \(\left| i - i' \right| + \left| j - j' \right|\).
📗 [5 points] Enter the list of squares searched by A* with Manhattan distance to the goal as the heuristic (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) integers either 0 or 1, 1 means searched, comma separated). Hint
📗 Use a PriorityQueue of pairs of numbers as the Queue. You can use an array or list too, but you have to implement the "enQueue" and "deQueue" operations first. Since the mazes are relatively small, you do not have to implement efficient PriorityQueue algorithms.
📗 Start by putting the entry square (center square of the top row) with priority = cost + heuristic, where the cost is \(g = 0\), and the heuristic is \(h = H\left(i, j\right)\) (\(H\) is the matrix from the previous question) in the Queue.
📗 DeQueue \(\left(i, j\right)\) with cost \(c\) and find the string of the \(\left(i, j\right)\) element of the successor matrix: if it contains "U", enQueue \(\left(i - 1, j\right)\) with and , if it contains "D", enQueue \(\left(i + 1, j\right)\) with and , if it contains "L", enQueue \(\left(i, j - 1\right)\) with and ; if it contains "R", enQueue \(\left(i, j + 1\right)\) with and .
📗 Repeat until the exit square (center square of the bottom row) is deQueued.
📗 [5 points] Enter the list of squares searched by A* with Euclidean distance to the goal as the heuristic (\(h\) lines, each line containing \(w\) integers either 0 or 1, 1 means searched, comma separated). Hint
📗 Replace the Manhattan distance by Euclidean distance \(\sqrt{\left(i - i'\right)^{2} + \left(j - j'\right)^{2}}\).
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📗 Solution:
📗 Java: Link
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📗 Sample solution from last year: 2022 P5. The homework is slightly different, please use with caution.
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