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Re: Robot Joysticks

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Originally Posted by Andy A. View Post
Before doing anything to change the joystick, I strongly encourage teams to calibrate the victor and joystick pair, as outlined in the Victor manual. Repeat this process anytime you change a joystick, Victor or when the controls don't feel 'right'. It's quick, easy and ensures that full forward on the stick means full forward on the motor.
Doing calibration this way is quick, easy, and simple. It specifically calibrates that Victor to that joystick, which is good when you're using that joystick to control the motor. But it also means that when you're trying to control a motor with some other process -- autonomous control, for example -- things can end up not working quite right.

The not-so-easy solution is to write your software so that you can calibrate the joysticks to some internal representation of the desired control (and ideally have the Victors set to the "default" calibration). If done correctly it's still quick and simple for the operator.