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Re: Battery Life

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Originally Posted by cilginbilgin View Post
Hi,
We are having a big issue with the life of battery on the robot. Even we charge the battery until it gets fulled, it only lets us 20 minutes of practice. Moreover, depending on the change of voltage on battery, the robot doesnt do what we say in the code especially in autonomous. What else can be done to solve this problem ?
And one more question: Are we going to be given charged batteries before every match at the competition ?

Thanks guys!
If your autonomous code is being affected by the battery voltage, I assume your code is doing dead reckoning (timed drive). If you want to have more accurate autonomous code and be independent of battery voltage, you should make use of sensors (e.g. encoders, gyro etc) for close-loop control.
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