2011 Extra Results

The official AMazeBot results were decided by the 5 rounds run during the show. These were the 4 randomly generated mazes plus the custom maze. This is enough to get a fair idea of the relative performance of the bots, but there is still some chance and luck involved. And this is fine, we want there to be some uncertainty to add excitment.

But it's also important for students to have solid measurements of their bot's performance. The devkit provides a means for testing against thousands of generated mazes, but we don't yet have a lot of custom mazes to test with.

For this reason we asked all competitors to submit a custom maze of their own design. The only stipulations were that the recharger be in an accessible cell, and that their own bot be able to solve their maze. We received 7 mazes along with the the 10 student entries, plus 1 maze from a non-competitor. We ran all bots on all these mazes and have compiled the results here.

Not only is this information useful in helping students identify where they can improve their bots, it's also fun to see who can create the most challenging (yet still solvable!) maze.

You can download all of these custom mazes here. The filenames in the package indicate who created each maze, which is not shown in the table below.

Bot	Solved	Total	AM9_002	AM9_004	AM9_012	AM9_015	AM9_017	AM9_019	AM9_021	NC_001
			Mazes
Electric Tortoise	8	55.2%	79.5%	48.4%	96.8%	62.6%	60.9%	55.4%	26.2%	12.1%
abortRetryFail	8	54.8%	82.4%	36.9%	97.6%	42.1%	62.2%	52.8%	23.0%	41.1%
Exhaustucrasher	8	47.1%	78.9%	51.2%	33.3%	42.9%	75.1%	40.1%	16.9%	38.5%
X-Terminate	8	39.2%	79.5%	41.9%	60.6%	11.0%	74.5%	33.8%	9.2%	3.0%
Zapp Brannigan	5	20.7%	52.1%	50.4%	Exhausted	Exhausted	28.6%	26.5%	Exhausted	8.3%
WeBrake4No1	5	16.8%	Exhausted	28.1%	17.6%	32.2%	Exhausted	15.8%	Exhausted	40.7%
pathfinder	4	23.4%	45.3%	47.0%	89.6%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted	5.0%	Exhausted
Patrick	4	19.3%	60.2%	56.4%	Exhausted	Exhausted	24.6%	13.5%	Exhausted	Exhausted
KingDwight	3	21.2%	Exhausted	59.5%	76.5%	Exhausted	33.4%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted
Robotnik	3	18.8%	45.6%	26.7%	78.4%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted
Mary Poppins	3	17.3%	59.6%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted	54.9%	24.0%	Exhausted	Exhausted
R2K11	3	17.2%	Exhausted	42.5%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted	25.1%	69.6%	Exhausted
Loonba	2	1.9%	Exhausted	Exhausted	14.5%	Exhausted	1.0%	Exhausted	Exhausted	Exhausted

			Maze statistics:
		Solved:	9	11	9	5	9	9	6	6
		Recharges:	1	1	4	3	0	3	3	3
		Average:	44.8%	37.6%	43.5%	14.7%	31.9%	22.1%	11.5%	11.1%