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Re: blog; Motor Controller Options for 2015

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Originally Posted by cjl2625 View Post
I know what PID is, but I'm wondering what specifically an onboard PID on the motor controller entails and how you could use it. My last post was pretty unclear, sorry.
For example, could you just send an error, output range, and gains to the motor controller and would it calculate the PID itself?
Oops sorry if I sounded condescending. It would be kinda cool if it could automagically compute the PID coefficients but I suspect life wouldn't be that easy.
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