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Re: Holonomic Control System

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Originally Posted by Thxe View Post
If you go with this it is very important to have a button that turns it off also because sometimes the gyro gets messed up.
I agree with the button, but for a different reason. When the robot is very close to and pointing straight at an object that you want to drive up to, it might in some cases be more intuitive and accurate to push the joystick straight forward.

As for the gyro losing calibration, I suggest a second button you can use to re-calibrate the gyro. Rotate the robot to the zero degree orientation and momentarily press the button to tell the gyro "here, this is zero degrees".