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Unread 22-02-2006, 21:50
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Re: How'd you do it?

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Originally Posted by Denz
Yes, the only problem is, when lining up the robot overshoots sometimes, and it kind of moves back and forth. This I am told is a PID problem, not sure what that means, and I'm a rookie programmer.
Oh, man, that hurts. The student head of software wrote a PID controller for the aiming process. Before that, ours hunted back and forth, too (tested on Wooden Thunder, we've never run the code on Top Gun. PID is hard -- it might take too long at this point, and if you don't have a really good mentor it might be impossible. John did test a PID-less version that worked pretty well, but it was S - L - O - W. Good luck.
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