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Re: Drive motor spinning out...need slower response

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Originally Posted by grosh View Post
We geared our robot for speed...maybe to much. We need to slow the response of our joysticks to the drive motors to keep us from spinning out.
"Spinning out" and "need to slow the response" sounds like you geared your drivetrain for too much acceleration.

If that's the case, take a look at the "slew rate limiting" in Eric VanWyk's article here: http://thinktank.wpi.edu/article/140


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