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Re: Position control of pistons with simple solenoids

I think it the main hurdle in frc is the fact that they used a linear slide with a pneumatic brake. I'm not certain the brake would be a legal pneumatic actuator. The other difficulty is the PWM period of 16ms. You'd have to get sub millisecond update rates out of the pneumatic control module, and I don't think that's possible. After that, it's sourcing a fast enough solenoid valve, and everything else is frc legal. If the pneumatic brake was legal, then I think you could have done this on a cRIO controller.
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