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Originally Posted by lscime

As far as I know the PWM signals only tell the Jaguar to adjust it's output voltage, there is no feedback from the motors to the Jaguars. I do believe that you can wire say a limit switch directly to the Jaguar to make it stop or start (or brake or coast) but I know of no way to hook an optical encoder-type device to the Jaguar directly.
We are using Holonomic Mecanum drive this year and it functions fine without using a PID loop to adjust the wheel speeds (although we did that last year for traction-control ).

Good Luck!

Hi lscime,

Thanks for sharing your experience with mecanum without closed-loop control of drive wheels. I think that's what we are going to settle for this year because giving our brand-new software guys another task would be too much at this point I think.


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