Attendance: Julie, Alex P., Cade, Alex M., Mitchell, Evelyn (Go team!)

I. Adding Constraints on the in-ice hole size.

Today we worked on adding constraints on the drilled hole size. Our plan is to do so by penalizing the fitness scores of indiviuals with a radius larger than that of the hole in the ice. Ie in fitnessFunction_ara.cpp we would have:

if R_antenna>=R _hole

fitnessScore =fitnessScore x (e^{-[A(R_antenna-R_hole)/R_hole)]^2}) 

else

fitnessScore= veff (or whatever way we decide to calculate the fitness score in the future, if this ever changed)

Where "A" is a constant we can adjust to tweak how heavy the penalty is. Other things to do in order to make this work:

(1) Make constant "A" a variable in the bash script. 

• Do this the same way $NPOP is used in the roulette algorithm cpp program! :)

(2)Read in the roulette algorithm output file for your radius of the antenna. 

• Note that this isn't a super obvious thing. Right now our roulette alg outputs are saved as $(generation)_filename.csv. So, for the first gen -- ie gen 0-- it will be 0_filename.csv. For the second gen -- ie gen 1-- it will be 1_filename.csv...etc. This means we need to make sure the fitness score calculator has a way of knowing what generation we are on, in order to be sure it is grabbing the correct radius for each individual (not that of an old generation). 
   

We will be working on this more in our meeting tomorrow. As for now, the game plan has been to make comments on what we should be adding in the correct sections of fitnessFunction_ara.cpp (and will be doing the same in the bash script shortly, too --ie XF_Loop.sh). 

II. Adding Ara Values to Plot. 

We haven't started this yet, but it is something we need to do. When we plot Veff vs Generation, Theta vs Generation, and R vs Generation we need to add in the value of these for the current ARA bicone as a baseline for our evolutions.

Note: All of the contents over the last month need to be added to the manual! DO NOT FORGET!