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Re: PID: what is it exactly?

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Originally Posted by ZipTie3182 View Post
I had thought last season teams used PID loops for their aiming, particularly in shooting to a certain distance?
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Originally Posted by nathan_hui View Post
One thing PID would have to do was compensate for that loss in speed fast enough to maintain a reasonable rate of fire, which I believe required some hacking (almost similar to a motion profiler).
Speed control of the shooter wheel was a good application for a bang-bang controller. More details here.