This program runs a rover simulation where you can continuously send the rover commands as a string (such as "FFRFF") and the rover will move on a given grid map.
The map wraps around at the edges and hopefully the projection used to create it maintains equal distances so that the rover travels similar distances at the equator and at the poles. So when the rover goes off the map on the right edge it moves to the left edge on the same row, same for top and bottom edges.
Commands are F = forward, B = backward, L = turn left, R = turn right.
You can build and run the project, then type commands in, one command string per line and press enter. Rover starts at position 0,0 heading North on a 100x100 grid map by default. The default map can be changed from the appsettings.json file.
When done, you can stop the simulation with Ctrl+C.
Example:
FFRFF
(press enter)
(rover moves and lists new position)
BLBL
(press enter)
(rover moves and lists new position)
...
The project uses .Net 5 and extensions, such as ILogger or Extensions.Hosting for dependency injection.
A basic json configuration was implemented in appsettings.json and it can be easily extended to send IOptions to the various components if needed (such as setting various values that are consts now). For now only DI initialization values were needed.
It's pretty simple to change the project to be a webservice, by changing Program.cs and adding routing to RoverController.cs
The implementation is flexible enough to allow adding several rovers with different behaviors, more commands, custom maps or extend to draw the map and the current rover position.
There are tests in the test folder. You can run them to check that everything works as expected, if you want to do changes to the code.