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Re: Encoders (What's up with those?)

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
How are you decoding the signal from the photosensor? i.e. Are you reading the number of counts, and dividing by elapsed time, or are you using getPeriod() to read the elapsed time between pulses?

What speed control algorithm are you using? PID, TBH, bang-bang, something else?


I wasn't involved with the programming. Sorry. I'll try to direct my team's main programmer to this thread.
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