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Re: Robot Drifting

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Originally Posted by The Lucas
How about just using a gyro to keep a true bearing durng autonomous. Otherwise, I'm with John, HuDAVS is the way to go. You are just limiting your total drive train power with any other method.
We use three methods: a gyro, the IR, and shaft encoders to maintain heading, position, and orientation during autonomous, but that doesn't help teams that don't have them. The method I suggest is for teams without any of these. It's essential if you are using true dead-reckoning.

We don't use any of them during driving mode, although we do sometimes modify the power curve to give more range at the low-end.

There are lots of answers and you'll see as many software solutions as robot solutions to FIRSTs game. It's part of what makes it all so interesting.
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