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Re: What is the strangest issue with a robot you have ever seen?
I have a few:
1. Joysticks only moving one side of a tank drivetrain very slightly. Joysticks were swapped, their ports were changed, and a controller was used in place of the joysticks, but only one side would twitch forward or reverse. I'm not sure what happened or how it was fixed, but I think it may have been a programming issue. This was probably the strangest I have seen so far.
2. Loss of comms when the battery was a bit low, but still ~11 volts. The robot would just freeze, then it would reconnect to the DS, and driving a bit would disconnect again. A full battery would fix it until that was discharged to the same level. The motors didn't seem weaker when this happened(mecanum drive), so not sure what caused it. That same RoboRIO was used in another robot, and it did the same thing once, but with new code, a full battery, and(I think) an OpenMesh radio. Strangely, it didn't happen again, even a few times when the battery dropped below 10 volts.
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