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Originally Posted by AlexGrant
Thanks a bunch for the info, how difficult do you think it would be to implement a system like this for a programmer with moderate experience?
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Last year, we had a first time programmer in Labview accomplish programming the gyro very effectively. We used a gyro to auto-correct our steering, since the floor was slick last year. You could push the robot completely around, and it would correct itself back to the same orientation. I haven't look at the code on how to do this, and I don't have LabView installed right now, so I couldn't even begin to tell you where to begin. I do remember them setting the gyro angle to zero or something, and we never did use the temperature since it wasn't really needed in our application.
Probably your best application is to use the gyro along with the camera to orient your robot in the right direction for kicking or whatever you want your robot to do. The camera will give you an angle, then apply that to the gyro and the drive base to correct the orientation of your robot. You could just do this with the camera, but I think it would be more reliable to do it with both.