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Re: Robot Jumping on Power Up

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I would have someone look at your code. It sounds like maybe you are using some motion smoothing algorythm, and one of the variables gets cleared to zero on powerup (instead of the last commanded or last output value)

in otherwords, you may have variables in your code that are not correctly initialized, so the first time through the loop you get an unexpected output.
We do have one, so this may be the problem. It is not a "critical" problem that really needs to be fixed - its more of a nuisance.