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Re: Need help programming our swerve with feedback?

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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303
Why not just make a look-up table custom made for your bot?
Update: We tried a lookup table, and it was causing us some trouble. Now we're using floating-point math (gasp!) and the arctangent maclaurin series, with up to the x^7 term. It runs fine.

At Silicon Valley, we found our potentiometer working fine, but instead, our speed was messed up, and often our wheels were going in the wrong direction entirely. Obviously, this was not good, and we ended up reverting to simple manual drive.

Thanks for all the help everyone.
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Last edited by Grommit : 08-04-2004 at 21:35.