Thread: Autonomous: Mixing Drive Distance PID's with Turn Angle PID's.
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Re: Autonomous: Mixing Drive Distance PID's with Turn Angle PID's.
Here is an interesting post from the old IFI Robotics forum that describes what is going on "under the hood" of a Victor.

http://www.ifirobotics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=317

Note that there are only 94 discrete output states in each direction. This would make a look-up table a pretty attractive solution. Also, "Be aware that it may take 3 or 4 input steps before the Victor changes its Output."

EDIT: Although this post seems to contradict the last bit about latency: http://www.ifirobotics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=375
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