TerraBot - Robot Simulation Engine

Project Description

This project implements an autonomous robot simulation named TerraBot. The system manages a complex ecosystem where the robot interacts with various entities (Air, Water, Soil, Plants, and Animals) to monitor and improve environmental conditions.

Implementation Details

Core Components

• TerraBot (Singleton): The main actor of the simulation. It maintains its battery level, current coordinates, an Inventory of scanned items, and a KnowledgeBase for learned facts.
• SimulationManager: Orchestrates the simulation flow. It handles the runSimulation loop, processes commands via a factory, and ensures the environment updates chronologically.
• EnvironmentUpdater: Manages the "physics" of the world. It calculates plant growth, oxygen production, humidity changes, and animal movement/eating habits based on whether the robot has scanned the relevant entities.
• Command Pattern: All actions (moving, scanning, recharging) are decoupled into command objects created by the CommandFactory.

Key Logic

• Energy Management: The robot consumes energy for actions and can enter a recharge state, during which a chargingTimeRemaining timer must expire before it becomes active again.
• Environmental Cycles: Every iteration, the EnvironmentUpdater refreshes the map. For example, if a Plant and Water are both scanned, the plant's maturity increases.
• Knowledge Acquisition: Through ScanObject and LearnFact, the robot populates its Inventory and KnowledgeBase to unlock further interactions with the environment.