[z_beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by joecloud

-z_beeblebrox: The encoder and so on, does that work based off a sensor? Like the Allen-Bradley Rightsight? What we've discussed is getting a rough estimate of how much time it takes for the bot to reach the goal, and then allow it to fire, in labview that's how I have it set up right now. But I'd like to figure out how the sensor works in labview, and how it would interact with the drive motors, right now I'm not visualizing it. Thanks though,

An encoder is a sensor that measures the amount rotation of a shaft. By attaching one to the gearbox in a robot's drivetrain, you can measure how far the robot has driven by doing some simple math based on the gear reductions and wheel size.

I'm no expert on LabVIEW so can't explain how to program the robot to use sensors. Others on the forum should be able to help you with that.

Also, I missed that you were shooting at the one-point goal. If so, just driving a little longer than it takes to ram the wall should get you there without a problem.