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You have to increase speed with the tilt enough ot keep the platform balanced but not enough to stop it from "falling". A speed limiter requires a kick in the power to the motor so the platform can catch up, a capaciter could be used to charge it and release or you can keep a certain area of power "roped off" in the programming and make it max out when you reach the speed limiter. I think Team 45 has a whitepaper with code they used to balance their robot on the ramp in 2001 (I think) using the gyro, take a look at that.
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I'm a FIRST relic of sorts, I remember when we used PBASIC and we got CH Flightsticks in the KoP. In my day we didn't have motorized carts, we pushed our robots uphill, both ways! (Houston 2003!)

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