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Originally Posted by Chris86
While our robot never lost communication with the field, I did notice some problems:
1) We took FOREVER to establish the initial communication with our robot sometimes. While we were waited on to establish communication before starting the match, it was very frustrating to have to cycle power on the bot and cause delays for everybody.
2) Sometimes in the middle of the match I noticed some lag on the connection between the robot and my joysticks. It is pretty intense during a match so I am not sure if the robot was losing comm for a second or two every now and then or if it was just a bad wifi connection.
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I've found laggy controls to be a robot problem, not field. Most common for me have been the camera and CAN bus. No camera comms = error messages every 5 ms = no CPU for robot operation. Same applies to CAN. Who knows what else could do it
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