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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri View Post
We have not seen any of the recent kit provided gyros net that bad of a drift. I think bullet point #1 in Jared's list is the biggest culprit to gyro drift in a typical FRC match.
I agree with this assessment. We always throw out the WPI library and do our own bias calculation and integration. Our method is simple: big moving average for the bias calculation up until the instant the FMS switches from disabled to auto - then we freeze the bias and start integrating.
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