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Unread 03-18-2015, 05:11 PM
Ben Wolsieffer Ben Wolsieffer is offline
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Re: Using a separate thread for driving motors?

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Originally Posted by DanG100 View Post
But won't the FMS still disable the drive motors even if motorsafetyhelper is disabled?
Yes, assuming you press the e-stop or disable button, but that might not happen immediately when someone realizes the robot is no longer responding to their inputs, especially while practicing. Admittedly, disabling the watchdog is not that big a deal safety wise, but it is more important in discovering that code is causing the robot controls to not run as fast as they should be.
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