Thread: Using a separate thread for driving motors?
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Unread 18-03-2015, 18:33
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Re: Using a separate thread for driving motors?
Ether brings up a good point. I was thinking about the case where the main thread finished its execution or threw an exception, in which case all other threads would exit.

But if for the main thread locked up without actually exiting or crashing (something that becomes more likely when you start communicating between multiple threads), the other threads (such as the one controlling the driving) could continue executing. Like I mentioned before, the e-stop/disable buttons would still be able to stop the robot in this case.
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