Thread: fine control of robot with mecanum wheels
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Re: fine control of robot with mecanum wheels
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Originally Posted by JamJam263 View Post
To fix this we simply used the throttle on the joystick to make an adjustable scale where setRPM=joystick*throttle*maxRPM. With adding the throttle everything worked without any issues. Using the throttle to make an adjustable scale works for voltage control...
Yeah, we also tried using the throttle* to scale the joystick (with open-loop PWM control) but it wasn't good enough. The driver wants more fine control, and I don't blame him.


*We used the throttle to control the parameter "a" mentioned in this post:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...d.php?p=921992


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