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Re: Full Court Shooting: Over 80ft total distance

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Originally Posted by MelodyPond View Post
That's the next step! Thanks for keeping us on track. Today we added a guard to keep the disk from riding up on the wheel at the end. That way we don't curve quite as much. We're also working hard to master encoders and PIDs to monitor the motor speeds. We're going to keep on tweaking. Since we're only a second year team, those major programming tasks are quite a challenge to tackle. However, we aren't about to back down from a challenge!
In other news, you really want to do bang-bang control for your shooter speed. It's simpler to program, easier to tune, and gets your flywheel up to speed much faster than a PID.
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