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Re: Disappointed

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Originally Posted by Arhowk View Post
3 shooter wheels? Why wouldn't they be the same? Also, if your showing them on the dash theres a large chance your controlling them via pid so it would be quicker to just display a green/red image if they are ready. Again, why are you being forced to change constants? The constants used on our robot for PID controlling were pretty much universal once kettering hit. For the SD, it seems like it would be easier to just intercept the putData calls and insert them into a flush buffer :/
Every robot is different. Getting a linear shooter configuration to have reduced wheel slippage at each wheel requires individual control of the wheels to get the most energy transfer. We also changed speeds due to wheel wearing of the course of an event. We also collected with our shooter wheels so those speeds needed to be changed. Obviously this wouldn't need to happen with every robot but it did for ours. We found a system that worked for us that got us a finalist at Razorback and a trip to IRI so I think it came out alright.
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