Thread: Using a separate thread for driving motors?
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Unread 03-18-2015, 05:28 PM
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Re: Using a separate thread for driving motors?
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Originally Posted by lopsided98 View Post
If you run your drive code in a separate thread, and the main robot thread crashes, the robot will not stop like it is supposed to, possibly causing a runaway robot.
Do you know this for a fact or just theorizing here? If the main robot thread actually crashes, the HAL + FRC firmware disable all outputs, right?

I'm not deeply familiar with these concepts. Maybe somebody could comment with a little more authority than I.
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