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Originally Posted by Eldarion
I saw your bot down in Midwest--what exactly does it display, anyway?
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It varies. For now, during Autonomous mode it displays the robot's relative heading as well as any states or faults that may occur during autonomous (example, dOnE)
It's true that the robot used to display ft/sec during autonomous as well, but since the fire we've had some fun little eh... abnormalities in the autonomous system we're still hammering out.
During Teleoperated mode, the robot displays the combined vector (real) velocity of the robot in ft/sec. For instance: since the robot is differential drive, if it were spinning perfectly in place, the speed would read zero.
The value the display reads can easily be changed by pressing different buttons on the OI panel to read values such as left/right encoder counts, gyro data, arm position, etc.
-q
p.s. We didn't install the voltage conversion circuit until Saturday morning, but there was a huge reduction in the number of times it blanked out due to low battery voltage (fast robot = lots of energy usage).