Thread: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
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Originally Posted by Monochron View Post
You may want to qualify that with "in my experience with very low drift". I have seen large amounts of drift absolutely ruin a robot's ability to move reliably. Like always, strict tolerances are needed for a control system like this.
Both years using field-centric drive utilized the kit gyro, and as far as I know the drivers never needed to reset the orientation.

I do recall a problem one time shortly after installation, but that was because we'd accidentally hooked to the temperature output.




Does anyone know off hand what expected drift is over time?
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