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Re: Need Help Slowing Down Drive Motors

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Originally Posted by noah10001 View Post
I am trying to slow down the motors in labview. I am using the default tank drive. I was given a screen shot of a Mecanum drive slowdown but didn't work, Help please.
The answer depends on why you want to slow the motors down:

- because the joystick gain is too high at low levels making fine motion control difficult?

- because the robot accelerates/decelerates too quickly, causing the load the robot is carrying to fall over?

- because you want to limit top speed because the driver can't control the robot properly at high speeds?

The more info you provide about what you are trying to do and why you are trying to do it, the more likely you will get useful answers.

EDIT: GeeTwo beat me to it, but didn't mention voltage ramping (to limit acceleration). Also no mention of changing gearing, which is probably the correct solution (albeit more difficult).



Last edited by Ether : 27-03-2015 at 10:12.
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