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Re: Robot Adaptive Suspension

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Originally Posted by Andrew Blair
Well, I was going to use a couple gyro chips and pressure only the correct cylinders to cancel the motion. So instead of posistioning the cylinders to an exact position, the cylinders pressurize till the acceleration is canceled. However, the more I think about, a never ending seesaw effect could ensue. That would be interesting to watch...
Well what you'd want to use here is some sort of PID feedback loop (then again, that's my answer to everything ). Properly "tuned" you could avoid said oscillation. I don't think the code would be too bad, it's the mechanics that wouldn't work out.
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