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# search.py
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# Pieter Abbeel (pabbeel@cs.berkeley.edu).


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

import util

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()))
    """
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
    fringe = util.Stack()
    visited_states = []
    actions=[]
    # Initialize start state
    fringe.push( (problem.getStartState(), []) )

    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        # storing the top element of the stack
        state, actions = fringe.pop()
        # if the state is the goal state returning the list of actions
        if problem.isGoalState(state):
            return actions
        
        # checking the successors if the state is not visited
        if not state in visited_states:
            for nextState, action, cost in problem.getSuccessors(state):
                if not nextState in visited_states:
                    fringe.push( (nextState, actions + [action]) )
            # after expanding the successors, adding the state to the visited state list
            visited_states.append(state)
            
    return actions
    util.raiseNotDefined()


def breadthFirstSearch(problem):
    """Search the shallowest nodes in the search tree first."""
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
    fringe = util.Queue()
    visited_states = []
    actions=[]
    # Initialize start state
    fringe.push( (problem.getStartState(), []) )

    while not fringe.isEmpty():
        # storing the top element of the stack
        state, actions = fringe.pop()
        # if the state is the goal state returning the list of actions
        if problem.isGoalState(state):
            return actions
        
        # checking the successors if the state is not visited
        if not state in visited_states:
            for nextState, action, cost in problem.getSuccessors(state):
                if not nextState in visited_states:
                    fringe.push( (nextState, actions + [action]) )
            # after expanding the successors, adding the state to the visited state list
            visited_states.append(state)
            
    return actions
    util.raiseNotDefined()

def uniformCostSearch(problem):
    """Search the node of least total cost first."""
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
    util.raiseNotDefined()

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."""
    "*** YOUR CODE HERE ***"
    util.raiseNotDefined()


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