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Re: Swerve questions (Languages, CAN)

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Originally Posted by cjl2625 View Post
We have been using LabVIEW, and it's been fine for our swerve drive.
We run the closed loop control on the cRIO for our absolute encoders (using 4 PIDs), and speed has not been an issue.
It would be even less of a problem on the faster RoboRIO.
Could you post a couple more details?

- are you using CAN or PWM to send commands to the motor controllers

- what part number encoders are you using