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(broken) AUTUMN Ship AI Core V1.2.28

Always felt a little alone on your huge ship? Need a companion to take care of all the systems for you and let you do the flying?
Look no further! AUTUMN will assist you in managing almost every aspect of your ship or base.

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I've been working on a new version with much much more robust variable updating and such.. but currently I simply can't finish it because Keen's programming block API is just broken, entirely, I can't use most of the OOP features that I -really- need to build what I want, so I guess the project is kind of stalled until then......

Things that are broken that I need for the AI to work:
-Projectors don't update unless they're opened in control panel
-enums{} (cause crash)
-Lists of custom objects (e.g new List<MyClass>) (cause crash)
-Using the same member name throughout a script multiple times (e.g "void Main(){} class Test{ void Main(){}}" just won't compile) This is the main issue.
-INCOMPLETE and barely usable or just unusable API: LCD panels (image API broken), reactors, batteries, solar panels, etc (only way to get power values is by parsing the .DetailedInfo string which is by far the foremost reason for 'script execution halted')...

I could go on for a while actually. I really hope they fix it all so I can continue my work. The project is exciting, but impossible to implement in the programming block in its current state. The current update should be mostly bug-free, albeit flimsy perhaps.
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Install the new Screens Module on a separate programming block to get improved Core performance as well as brand new screens, and the ability to create your own easily! More info here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=398337947

AUTUMN, or Artificial User Transmutation and Ubiquitous Management Network


Use the github link to get the latest version straight from the source! See bottom for more info.

Want to discuss something? have ideas? bugs? Leave a comment or reply to this thread: http://forums.keenswh.com/post/modular-shipstation-management-ai-core-modules-thread-7327230


-Very extensive status screen with possibility to upgrade to multiple screen types (uses LCD panels)
-WIP Power management that (will) manage every block that consumes or produces power, function varies per block; e.g antenna and beacon range are increased when there's power available, and decreased when there's power being drained from the batteries. This will be extended to support every power consuming/producing block.
-WIP Alert system (code Blue, Orange and Red alerts, sound on speakers, flash lights, displays, etc)
-Modular; Turn on and off systems as you please to create your own customized AI fit for your wishes!
-Extensible; Add AI Modules on separate programming blocks for added functionality!
-Very extensive documentation and debugging tools, programmers hack away! (or cry blood, I know it's not the prettiest code :P)

For a changelog with much more info, see the 'change notes' next to the screenshots or the commit log on github!

-new Power management subsystem, written from scratch to support batteries, capacitors, solarpanels, reactors and connectors as powersource/powerdrain. (planned for 1.3)
-Alert light support (like speakers, _blue, _orange, _red)
-Alert Timer block support, like speakers, allowing you to trigger any amount of extra events.
-Detect difference between own ship, and connected ships through connectors etc (with ability to toggle between managing/not managing those). currently it indiscriminately controls every block it can find in the same grid.
-Inventory management and enumeration for Screens module
-Configuration Module, to change runtime parameters without having to recompile all the time. (thought of a system that uses a series of lights as 'buffer' in order to give button input to a programming block, the API doesn't natively allow this)
-As soon as Keen fixes the LCD panel API, add Icon panel support. Right now I can only add images to the list of images it iterates over when activated. Nothing else. I can't even remove images from that list again, so the list will just grow and grow until the game starts lagging, let alone just set an image. #JustEarlyAccessThings



1) install AI on a programming block
2) create an LCD panel named 'ai_storage'. This is needed for persistent cross-block variables and internal things.
3) create one or more LCD panels that end with "_status". AI will automatically write status screen to those panels. Make sure that 'Show text on screen' is set to 'Public' in order to actually see things. Also note that LCD panels are buggy and don't always update right now.
4) set up constant timer: create a timer block => set interval to 3-8s => set actions to run programming block, and run timer block itself.
5) Start timer block. AI should now be managing everything for you!

Optional steps for added features:
6) create speakers that end with _blue, _orange and _red. These speakers will be used to play alarms on when the AI reaches certain alert states (e.g blue, orange or red).
7) create a panel named 'debugpanel' to get information about the AI as it works, and diagnose any issues.

Getting the Screens Module working:
8) install https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=398337947 on a programming block
9) add it to the timer block
10) make sure ownership etc is set correctly.
11) Done! The Core will automatically disable and offload parts of itself to the Screens Module

>Make sure that ownership of all blocks to be managed is set to the user. "Nobody" doesn't work, the API doesn't allow me to access anything.

>At the top of the script there's a few constants you can change, that will affect some basic things like the ship name it shows on the status panels.

>At the very bottom of the file there's the void Main(), you can remove parts (e.g manageRefineries()) as you please to enable/disable modules of the AI.

For more info, see the thread on the KeenSWH Forums: http://forums.keenswh.com/post/modular-shipstation-management-ai-core-modules-thread-7327230


F.A.Q:
Q: Why can't it handle more than ~120 devices per category?
A: this is because I have to intensively parse text for every block due to Space engineers not having the proper APIs in place to retrieve the values as integers/floats. I'm currently parsing the DetailedInfo field for every block (the same text as in the control panel). Early access yay.

Q: This is not Artificial Intelligence.
A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "[..]an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success."

Source is available at: http://pastebin.com/ULkqUqAS v1.2.25 [OLD]
Github link to latest source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xarinatan/AUTUMN-Space-Engineers-Ship-AI/master/ShipAI%20Core.cs
NOTE: The source on Github includes the boilerplate code for Visual Studio. Only copy the parts inside the CodeEditor region into the programming block.

I recommend using Visual Studio 2012 /2013 for syntax highlighting. (there's a free version that only requires registration, just google for 'express edition' or 'community edition')
See http://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengineers/comments/2r1j1q/scripting_in_visual_studio/ for a tutorial on getting syntax highlighting to work with Space Engineer's Mod API classes/namespaces.
You can also just use Notepad++ if you don't need intellisense and autocomplete but just want basic syntax recognition.