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Unread 18-11-2004, 10:48
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Re: Calibrating Victors

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
I think that scaling joystick input at the RC to match full range and zero would be a big improvement IF the Victors were able to calibrate to full absolute PWM values.
This is actually what we do with our software. When we receive joystick input data, the first thing we do is scale it to a full-range value (0-254) and then all subsequent processing is done on that value. So, regardless of our joysticks, we always output 0-254 to our speed controllers, and calibrate the speed controllers using that. This ensures no surprises with autonomous mode (however our closed-loop positioning system would take care of incorrectly calibrated speed controllers anyway).