Just saw this and wanted to clarify.
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You will also see this in LabVIEW most of the time. It is a warning and as long as you do not get a fault then you are OK. If your timeout gets too long you will get shut down during the match. Everything uses a watchdog timer. Basically it tells the field that you are still there. If it takes too long then it shuts you down.
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This is a safety feature similar to a watchdog, but more specific to the robot base. It is enabled by default so that debugging the robot is somewhat more safe. If the safety feature is enabled, it will zero the motors after 100ms, but will not result in a match-long disable or anything like that.
As for whether this happens more often in LV, it is pretty common to see it at the end of a team's autonomous but before the end of the period. Since the robot is already finished moving, it causes no harm.
Greg McKaskle