In Range and Coerce?
 

Hello, for the mechinum wheel drive our team has set up, I have designed a control system using the joystick buttons. Unfortunately the design is clunky, and unwieldy. Because of this I have been looking at the "inrange and coerce" function. I was hoping to be able to use the joystick axises to replace the buttons (say moving a joystick to the left to make the mech drive go to the left.). Im confused with these things, has anyone used this idea to control the robot?

Re: In Range and Coerce?
 

You'll find a premade holonomic drive system in Labview that will perform the drive functions you need without you programming them all from scratch. Take a look.

Re: In Range and Coerce?
 

First, I'd recommend trying the canned Labview holonomic code. It may work better than what you're attempting right now.

However, if you're just trying to decide if the joystick is, say, 50% to the right or 50% to the left, in range and coerce is a bit excessive. You should just be able to use the "greater than" and "less than" comparators from the Boolean palette.

If you're trying to get a series of locations like, say "100%-75% Left", "75%-50% Left", "50%-75% Right", and "75%-100% Right", then a series of in range and coerce functions may be the simplest way to get that done.