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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I realize that we're not doing rocketry control systems here, for the most part anyways, but effectively halving our output resolution annoys me, as one or two counts can definitely affect how straight your robot's driving. Especially considering this is the Control System of Tomorrow and the motor control system now seems to be less capable than the Control System of Yesterday. I think following in NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow footsteps is taking the Overdrive theme just a bit too far.
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Well, I can say that with the amount of resolution on the speed controllers as it sits right now, our
'rocketry control system 
' wouldn't have worked with any higher of a minimum ouotput power. You can (even with the 3% throttle and resolution available now) still see our 2008 robot shimmy as it's dynamic braking to enter an interpolated arc motion (just check out any videos on TBA of our autonomous, especially Midwest and Archemedes).
You know, if they try hard enough, I bet they can get this new control system to be just as good as the old one (that cost way less than half of the new one)!
*whimpers* Why, oh why couldn't we have just upgraded to the PIC32 (80MIPS) or even the Querk controller...
-q
