Toy Robot Challenge – Release Notes
November 12, 2021
New features
- Initialisation – Users can set the home position and heading of the robot.
- Positioning & Sensing – Users can perform incremental movement or rotation of up to 90 degrees without risk of exceeding surface dimensions.
- Reporting – Users can request the positioning data of the robot.
- Command Line Input – Users can input their commands directly into the terminal.
Bug fixes
- Fixed issue of parsing unknown arguments
- Addressed invalid robot initialisation
- Enabled parsing of capitalised user input
- Implemented flow control for user commands
Dependencies
- You will need to install the following:
- argparse
- setuptools
- You will need to set up your Python path.
Run instructions
To install the necessary requirements:
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the main program:
python3 -m prog
To run individual unit tests:
python3 -m unittest tests/foo.py
CLI commands
usage: prog.py [-h] [-p x y head] [-m] [-l] [-r] [--report] [-x]
-h --help Show this help message and exit
-p --place Sets robot home position & heading
-m --move Moves robot 1 step forward
-l --left Rotates robot -90deg
-r --right Rotates robot +90deg
--report Reports robot position
-x --exit Exits program
Example input
--place 1 2 east
--move
--move
--left
--move
--report
--exit
Abbreviations used
args arguments
coord coordinates
curr current
d delta i.e. the change in
dim dimensions
head heading
pos position
prop proposed
str string
sym symbol
temp temporary
