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Re: Autonomous

Alan's probably answered part of your question.
The x-axis is just the turn speed, and the y-axis adds the forward or reverse speed to get an arc.

With the trailers behind the robots this year you'll probably want to do some sort of arc (mixture of x & y axis), but full speed (1.0 or -1.0) will probably be too much for the slick floor and wheels. I'd imagine you'll want to start on practice day with about half speed for both until you see how your robot really behaves. Then raise or lower the speed based on what you see.
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