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Re: Help the field crew, reset your gyro in autonomous

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
There's an easy way to fix this. The first thing you do in autonomous, call gyro reset. This sets the heading to 0 right where the robot is at the beginning of autonomous. You can move your robot while it's on, without affecting the gyro that way. We've been doing this for years, but I've talked to many people at regionals this year that hadn't thought of doing this.

There is one caveat, your robot will need to be still while the gyro calibrates, which is typically 20-30 seconds after power up (if you open the gyro at the beginning of the program).
We have been doing this for a couple years. Last year reset the accumulator and do a little offset logic every 300 disabled loops in C++ (Robot Class similar to IterativeRobot). I am not sure the specifics and exactly what we are doing this year since I didn't write the code.
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