“ I am a bit in the war ”

1. “I am a bit in the war” Roland Geraerts 30 July 2012

2. Check, mate! • Use a spelling checker!

3. Common errors • its versus it's • It's is a contraction for it is or it has. Its is a possessive pronoun, meaning, of it or belonging to it. • abbreviations • Don't use abbreviations like min (minimum), wrt (with respect to), etc. ;-) • dashes • Use dashes appropriately, e.g. multi-core, planning-based, imposter-based, non-optimal, non-convex, collision-free configurations. • Apostrophes • Don't write: Papers discussion's points.

4. Common errors • Dunglish • "I am a bit in the war" (from the Dutch Ik ben een beetje in de war, translates as "I am a little bit confused") • Just avoid it, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunglish. I won't see these mistakes through my fingers!

5. Common errors: Punctuation • Dutch puts a comma after restrictive relative clauses; hence mistakes like: • The concern they show, is by no means exaggerated. • Commas may be used between unlinked clauses: • This is somewhat surprising, as they are forbidden in Dutch too, they nevertheless occur regularly. • Abbreviations entirely in lower case or ending in lower case are normally followed by periods: • Mr. and Mrs. • i.e.

6. Interrogative and negative structures • Dutch has no do-support • What mean you? • Thank you, I smoke not • Preposition-stranding in questions is unknown in Dutch. • The sentence Who are you talking to? is wrong. • To whom are you talking? • Dutch uses interrogative adverbials beginning with the equivalent of where to ask question about things. • Where do you need that for?

7. Students’ mistakes • The character can not be pushed away from it’s position. • …a crowded terrain on Uithof… • Where alpha is the weight of a face. • In 1998 Aleksandrov came up… • Searchspace…searchgraph • …dependent on the characters preferences… • The navigation strategy of single pedestrians minimize the local field value… • …followed by section 9; …as shown in figure 2. • Datastructure • …eg. Drawn by some level designer… • Calculate amount of iterations.

8. Students’ mistakes • g denotes the goal position of the route. • …our two dimensional environment • 8. Prove • …in the video’s and our character. • … vision-based algorithm… • Therefore our… • …15 possible directions…, which was the required amount for realistic behaviour… • In the first no collisions can occur… • …the wall-segment is infinite. • …agents only reacted to other agents when they were in its field of view.

9. Students’ mistakes • This behaviour is create even more distinctive. • Pettré et al. constructs a navigation graph • …the truly shortest path • The field of robotics has also been using other… • …but by default it does not… • This is because when the set of circles is continuous, the character will… • If the the velocity based approach… • All experiments were run … • …lie on one and the same plane. • A data structure that, based on our restriction, can solve path planning queries…