Mars Rover Mission

The task

You’re part of the team that explores Mars by sending remotely controlled vehicles to the surface of the planet. Develop a software that translates the commands sent from earth to instructions that are understood by the rover.

Requirements

• You are given the initial starting point (x,y) of a rover and the direction (N,S,E,W) it is facing.
• The rover receives a collection of commands, e.g. FFRRFFFRL
• The rover can move forward (F).
• The rover can move left/right (L,R).
• Suppose we are on a really weird planet that is square. 200x200 for example :)
• Implement obstacle detection before each move to a new square. If a given sequence of commands encounters an obstacle, the rover moves up to the last possible point, aborts the sequence and reports the obstacle.

Take into account

Rovers are expensive, make sure the software works as expected.

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Stack

• vite
• React
• TypeScript
• vitest for testing

Getting started

First, run npm install to install all the dependencies.

Then:

• Run npm run dev to start the development server in watch mode
• Run npm run build to build the production version
• Run npm run test to run the tests in watch mode