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Re: Correcting Travel Direction

Using accelerometers on FRC robots to derive position is a hard problem. So hard, in fact, that I don't know of any teams who have reliably solved it. I wouldn't even attempt it. Closed-loop control of the wheel speeds using encoders is easy.