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Re: swerve drive alinement question

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Originally Posted by mark.amber View Post
In a swerve drive system how do we know what direction our wheels are pointing when we start the bot, so the wheels are all facing the correct directions, I know with rotery encoders position is relitive to the starting position.
Not all encoders are relative. Some are absolute, like the austriamicrosystems magnetic encoder that came with the 2010 KoP.


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