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Re: WPILib PID controller object

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Originally Posted by sircedric4 View Post
Once I just sent the information in terms of the 10 bit "raw" data the potentiometer outputs my robot started to converge. I am still trying to figure out what values of P,I, & D to send so that the turret doesn't jitter, but I understand that is mostly empirical depending on your system.
Your PID numbers should be tiny since the error is from 0 to 1024 and the output is from -1.0 to 1.0. Think on the scale of hundredths, thousandths, or smaller.
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