\b;Exercice Remote control a slave robot without using an \l;information exchange post\u object\exchange;. The robot should pass over the 6 blue crosses. You must use a \l;string\u cbot\string; to pass the orders to the slave bot. This string contains the order the slave shoud execute, for exemple \c;"move(20)"\n;. You can see that this is the same syntax as used in the CBOT language but we could have chosen any other syntax for exemple something like \c;"advance=20"\n;. The string will be a \c;\l;static\u cbot\static;\n; class member that will be used to communicate from the master to the slave. The two main actors of this exercise are: 1) The \l;wheeled grabber\u object\botgr; without an energy pack and therefore immobile. This is the master you should program so it will transmit orders to the slave. 2) The slave \l;practice bot\u object\bottr; which is already programmed and just waits for orders from the master. \b;The slave First of all we must understand how the program of the slave works. The \l;class\u cbot\class; \c;exchange\n; contains the mechanism for exchaning the orders. We declare a \c;\l;static\u cbot\static;\n; class member \c;m_order\n; which will contain the order to be executed. The word \c;static\n; insures that the member \c;m_order\n; is shared between all instances of the \l;class\u cbot\class; exchange. \c;\s;\l;public\u cbot\public; \l;class\u cbot\class; exchange \s;{ \s; \l;static\u cbot\static; \l;private\u cbot\private; \l;string\u cbot\string; m_order = ""; \n;The \c;put\n; method will be used by the master robot for transmitting an order. As long as the string \c;m_order\n; is not empty, the slave has not finished the order and the \c;put\n; method will return \c;false\n; and will do nothing. \c;\s; \l;synchronized\u cbot\synchro; \l;bool\u cbot\bool; put(string order) \s; { \s; if ( m_order == "" ) \s; { \s; m_order = order; \s; return true; \s; } \s; else \s; { \s; return false; \s; } \s; } \n; Another method \c;get\n; will be used by the slave to retrieve the orders. This method returns the string contained in \c;m_order\n; and empties it, so a new order can be accepted: \c;\s; \l;synchronized\u cbot\synchro; string get() \s; { \s; string ret = m_order; \s; m_order = ""; \s; return ret; \s; } \s;} \n; The main program of the slave contains an instance of the class \c;exchange\n; called \c;list\n;. \c;\s;\l;extern\u cbot\extern; void object::Slave3( ) \s;{ \s; exchange list(); \s; string todo; \n; The outer \c;while\n; loop lasts for ever. The inner \c;while\n; loop waits for an order by using the \c;get\n; method of the \c;exchange\n; class. As soon as \c;get\n; returns a non empty string, the while loop stops. \c;\s; \l;while\u cbot\while; ( true ) \s; { \s; \l;while\u cbot\while; ( true ) \s; { \s; todo = list.get(); \s; if ( todo != "" ) break; \s; wait(1); \s; } \n; Now we have received the order in the \c;todo\n; variable. All we have to do is execute it: \c;\s; if ( \l;strfind\u cbot\strfind;(todo, "move") == 0 ) \s; { \s; move(\l;strval\u cbot\strval;(\l;strmid\u cbot\strmid;(todo,5))); \s; } \s; if ( strfind(todo, "turn") == 0 ) \s; { \s; turn(strval(strmid(todo,5))); \s; } \s; } \s;} \n; \b;The master In the master we write an function called \c;SendOrder\n; which will send an order to the slave: \c;\s;void object::SendOrder(string order) \s;{ \s; exchange list(); \s; \s; while ( list.put(order) == false ) \s; { \s; wait(1); \s; } \s;} \n; The \c;while\n; loop waits until a pending order has been terminated, that is the slaved has exited from the \c;get\n; method. Now the main program of the master is very simple: \c;\s;extern void object::Remote3( ) \s;{ \s; SendOrder("move(20)"); \s; SendOrder("turn(90)"); \s; SendOrder("move(20)"); \s; SendOrder("turn(90)"); \s; SendOrder("move(10)"); \s; SendOrder("turn(90)"); \s; SendOrder("move(10)"); \s; SendOrder("turn(-90)"); \s; SendOrder("move(10)"); \s;} \n; \key;\key help;\norm; show these instruction at any time. \t;See also \l;Controls\u command; and \l;programming\u cbot;.