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Originally Posted by Michael Desch
Our team spent the last three months developing a PID controller capability. How do THINK we feel! FIRST is losing sight of the fact that it's supposed to be an engineering challenge. The real world is not plug-and-play.
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I'm curious why this matters so much. You can do a search on this web site and find plenty of examples of PID controllers. You still have to know what it does, how to tune it, and how to debug it when it doesn't work. You know how to do all of that now so you're ahead of the curve.
Unless you build the default robot chassis with the supplied gearbox you will have to modify and adapt any code they provide. Any other area of software development has tons of examples of how to do things. FIRST, in the past, provided little to no information specific to programming a robot. They are doing the right thing by filling that gap. I highly doubt the samples will be anything more than a starting point.