Simulator for radio controlled cars

This project is a simulator for radio controlled cars developed using Java.

Getting Started

The simulator test various commands and see if the radio controlled cars can execute them without hitting the wall. The simulator is a console application.

The commands that the simulator accept is forward, back, left and right. Forward make the car move forward 1 meter, back make the car move backwards 1 meter, left rotate the car 90° counterclockwise and right rotate the car 90° clockwise.

The simulated environment is a room. The room size is in whole meters (no decimals). The simulated car is treated as a round object with 1 meter in diameter.

The image below shows all possible positions in a 4 meters wide and 4 meters long room, the highlighted coordinate [0,0] is the most southwest point in which the car will fit.

After the simulation the simulator outputs the result of the simulation. The result can either be successful (everything went ok) or unsuccessful (the car drove into the wall).

Running the tests

The system will ask you the size of the room. *This is inputted with two integers separated with a space. The system will ask you the user start position and a heading of the car. *This is inputted with two integers and one letter separated with spaces. The letter can be N, S, W or E. The system will ask the user about the commands to execute. *This is inputted with all commands in series. Available commands are F, B, L or R.

In case of incorrect inputs the system will display an error message and you will be able to enter a new input again. The upper and lower case letter inputs are accepted.

Sample input:

8 6
2 3 N
FFFRFFLBB

Sample output:

Unsuccessful - The car was at position: [2,5] heading to the N and tried to go Forward and hitted the wall

Built With

• Eclipse - The IDE for development.
• Linux - The platform used.

Author

• Júlio Simião