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Re: Motor balancing (encoders?)

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Originally Posted by shawnz View Post
but, again, how do we do this for holonomic drive? there's a lot of trig performed on the joystick inputs before it gets out to the motor set VI in the holonomic drive VI...
Don't adjust the motor speeds explicitly. Adjust the drive control inputs. If you want to keep the robot going straight, put the PID between the joystick and the rotate input to the Drive vi. Use the gyro angle as the process variable and the desired heading as the control.
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