Visual Map & Log movement

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Visual Map & Log movement

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Thanks a lot for your contributions to the sim! I also agree that it'd make it 
a lot
easier. I'll take a careful look at your changes a bit later today and I'll try 
to
get back to you tonight and integrate them in the code base. 

Original comment by [email protected] on 26 Jan 2009 at 3:30

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I said I'd get back to you tonight, so here am I :).

The features you've implemented are very relevant. However we do get into a 
gray area
when you implement the logging in the simulator and give access to it to the 
users of
the simulator. The problem with that is that you're giving them access to 
information
that we will not have from the playing field or prior knowledge! Thus, that 
should be
implemented as robot logic. That's part of the reason why I insisted to keep 
separate
the libs and the source code, so that we wouldn't get code that relied on 
information
that didn't come from previous knowledge of the maps and sensor inputs.

However, it is indeed pretty useful *as debug output* to see the map and track 
the
robot's position throughout the simulation. Tomorrow I'll improve the simulator 
to
incorporate that functionality, while keeping the logging details hidden from 
the user.

I know it's kind of weird to keep hiding stuff from ourselves, but I'm just 
trying to
minimise the amount of refactoring the code will have to undergo when we port 
it into
the actual physical platform. I hope this makes sense.


Keep it up!

Pedro

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Jan 2009 at 2:04

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Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Jan 2009 at 2:06

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