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Re: Elevator Motion Profiling / PID Ramping

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Originally Posted by Aero View Post
Any sort of speed control won't really work, because our elevator is really fast. It's about 0.75 seconds from bottom to top.
We have limited the max output of our PID controller, but that only provides a max speed, and no acceleration ramping.

I'm still looking into dynamic motion profiling, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Gear slower. It will do wonders here.