search.py

# search.py
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"""
In search.py, you will implement generic search algorithms which are called by
Pacman agents (in searchAgents.py).
"""

from util import Stack, Queue, PriorityQueue, Counter, PriorityQueueWithFunction

class SearchProblem:
    """
    This class outlines the structure of a search problem, but doesn't implement
    any of the methods (in object-oriented terminology: an abstract class).

    You do not need to change anything in this class, ever.
    """

    def getStartState(self):
        """
        Returns the start state for the search problem.
        """
        util.raiseNotDefined()

    def isGoalState(self, state):
        """
          state: Search state

        Returns True if and only if the state is a valid goal state.
        """
        util.raiseNotDefined()

    def getSuccessors(self, state):
        """
          state: Search state

        For a given state, this should return a list of triples, (successor,
        action, stepCost), where 'successor' is a successor to the current
        state, 'action' is the action required to get there, and 'stepCost' is
        the incremental cost of expanding to that successor.
        """
        util.raiseNotDefined()

    def getCostOfActions(self, actions):
        """
         actions: A list of actions to take

        This method returns the total cost of a particular sequence of actions.
        The sequence must be composed of legal moves.
        """
        util.raiseNotDefined()


def tinyMazeSearch(problem):
    """
    Returns a sequence of moves that solves tinyMaze.  For any other maze, the
    sequence of moves will be incorrect, so only use this for tinyMaze.
    """
    from game import Directions
    s = Directions.SOUTH
    w = Directions.WEST
    return  [s, s, w, s, w, w, s, w]

def depthFirstSearch(problem):
    """
    Search the deepest nodes in the search tree first.

    Your search algorithm needs to return a list of actions that reaches the
    goal. Make sure to implement a graph search algorithm.

    To get started, you might want to try some of these simple commands to
    understand the search problem that is being passed in:

    print "Start:", problem.getStartState()
    print "Is the start a goal?", problem.isGoalState(problem.getStartState())
    print "Start's successors:", problem.getSuccessors(problem.getStartState())
    """

    
    fringe = Stack()
    
    current = (problem.getStartState(), [], [])
    fringe.push(current)
    closed = []
        
    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        node, path, total = fringe.pop()
        if problem.isGoalState(node):
            return path
        if not node in closed:
            closed.append(node)
            for coord, move, cost in problem.getSuccessors(node):
                fringe.push((coord, path + [move], total + [cost])) 

def breadthFirstSearch(problem):
    """Search the shallowest nodes in the search tree first."""
    
    fringe = Queue()
    current = (problem.getStartState(), [])
    fringe.push(current)
    closed = []
    
    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        node, path = fringe.pop()
        if problem.isGoalState(node):
            return path
        if not node in closed:
            closed.append(node)
            for coord, move, cost in problem.getSuccessors(node):
                fringe.push((coord, path + [move])) 
        

def uniformCostSearch(problem):
    """Search the node of least total cost first."""
    
    fringe = PriorityQueue()
    counts = Counter()
    current = (problem.getStartState(), [])
    fringe.push(current, 0)
    closed = []
    
    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        node, path = fringe.pop()
        if problem.isGoalState(node):
            return path
        if not node in closed:
            closed.append(node)
            for coord, move, cost in problem.getSuccessors(node):
                counts[coord] = counts[node]
                counts[coord] += cost
                fringe.push((coord, path + [move]), counts[coord]) 
    

def nullHeuristic(state, problem=None):
    """
    A heuristic function estimates the cost from the current state to the nearest
    goal in the provided SearchProblem.  This heuristic is trivial.
    """
    return 0

def aStarSearch(problem, heuristic=nullHeuristic):
    """Search the node that has the lowest combined cost and heuristic first."""
    

    fringe = PriorityQueue()
    counts = Counter()
    current = (problem.getStartState(), [])    
    counts[str(current[0])] += heuristic(current[0], problem)
    fringe.push(current, counts[str(current[0])])
    closed = []
    
    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        node, path = fringe.pop()
        if problem.isGoalState(node):
            return path
        if not node in closed:
            closed.append(node)
            for coord, move, cost in problem.getSuccessors(node):
                newpath = path + [move]
                counts[str(coord)] = problem.getCostOfActions(newpath)
                counts[str(coord)] += heuristic(coord, problem)
                fringe.push((coord, newpath), counts[str(coord)]) 


# Abbreviations
bfs = breadthFirstSearch
dfs = depthFirstSearch
astar = aStarSearch
ucs = uniformCostSearch