WARNING

IT IS A DEMO PROJECT THAT HAS CRITICAL ISSUES IN FUNCTIONALITY AND HARDCODED VALUES

Vacuum Cleaner World on JS

How to run

1. Install npm on your OS.
2. Install webpack -- npm install webpack
3. Run next command to download required dependencies -- npm install
4. Run webpack command in the project directory.
5. Now you can open index.html in browser and start playing.

Short description

Vacuum cleaner know about map and trash location. You can run four different algorithms - Greedy Algorithm, Random Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm and Method of Branch and Bound, also you can control robot manually. When robot starts building trip it creates Adjacency matrix using A start algorithm to find shorter route between two points and two additional structures - dictionary where key is coordinates of two points and value is array of waypoints between them and array pointMapping that allows us to associate point id with point coordinates.

Greedy Algorithm

Just pick the nearest point on each iteration. The fastest algorithms among all.

Random Algorithm

Randomly choose direction and move on one to three steps. Stop when all rooms are clean.

Genetic Algorithm

The slowest algorithm among all. It finds better trip comparing with greedy and random but takes a lot of time.

Method of Branch and Bound

Build tree of possible paths with a depth of 5 levels. Take significant amount of time when we have more then 13 room with trash but faster than genetic algorithm and if depth equals number of trash find optimum trip.

Trash generator

You have two modes static trash generation when press generate trash button and when you press Run button trash are generated dynamically.

Comparing algorithm

If you want to compare two algorithm choose one, generate trash, build trip, then press Restart button and choose another algorithm and after the second completed building the trip and run through, one can compare amount of wasted energy.