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Re: Reducing Drift in KOP Gyroscope

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Originally Posted by TogetherSword8 View Post
The problem that we had this year was it drifted prior to the match, and our initial driving based on the gyroscope angle was off, because it drifted a different amount depending on the time from robot placement to when they actually started the match.
Simply reset the gyro at the start of the match.

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count the accumulation in the code instead of letting the gyro do it itself
The gyro itself does not do any accumulating. That is done in the FPGA, which probably does it much more effectively that you could do in your code.

Some teams have added a manual reset function that the driver can activate by simply pressing a button when the bot is at the zero position any time during a match.
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