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Unread 01-04-2009, 20:39
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Re: EASY traction control?

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Originally Posted by RoboMaster View Post
But actually, I personally find the acceleration control stated above bad. Because the robot speeds up and slows down slowly, the turning and stopping is delayed and effectivly the robot's reaction time is slow. This was very cumbersome and most of the time people on our team were just constanly holding down a button that we had programmed which would turn off this feature and we would just drive carefully.
During our driver tryout period, most of them experienced the same problem, so I switched the traction control from automatically enabled to automatically disabled. It works well for accelerating and smooth curves when you're not colliding into other robots but, once you hit something, the system gets thrown off. Personally, I found it splendid to use until it was thrown off (and when I drove, I used it often, for what it was designed for), but our other drivers had other preferences.

Having a disable/enable feature is a good idea.
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