Thread: PID on Jaguars is Illegal
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Re: PID on Jaguars is Illegal
While I agree that I can't see any good reason to disallow the primary feature that makes the Jaguar an advancement over other controllers, it isn't like the cRio hasn't got power to spare.

It was a bit of trick to program four closed-loop drive motors for our mecanum drive using the old PIC based controller and I would have really liked to be able to offload some interrupts and clock cycles back then, but with what I've seen using labview on the cRio makes it trivial.

Well, okay... almost trivial.

Maybe the PID libraries and routines aren't as well developed in the other languages on the cRio, but in Labview it would seem unimportant where the closed-loop routine resides.

Jason