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Re: Turn-to-angle PID tuning

From my experience adding a 'minimum' output to your PID loop is by far the quickest, most painless solution. Our drivetrain has a large amount of friction and adding the minimum made it much more responsive and quicker to tune. It exponentially shortened PID tuning times for my team.
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