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Unread 18-03-2013, 23:36
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Re: Problem with driving

During the regional, we had a similar issue where our robot would work in the pit area but would "lag" when we drove it on the field. At first we thought it was a cpu issue and then we made the wait loops a little longer (tenth of a second i believe). That did not get rid of the issue.
We started jerking the robot back and forth in the pit to see if we could reproduce the issue. The light on the jaguars were turning from solid yellow to flashing yellow. We traced the problem back to the cRIO. Specifically, our ethernet cable was zip tied really tight and it would lose communication everytime we jerked the robot. Simply creating some breathing room for the ethernet cable solved our issue. Hopefully your problem is easy to solve as ours.