Pitching Machine Control - PID Needed?

[SuperBK]

No need to port another PID library to the cRIO, WPLib already has a PID class. We used it last year to control our arm.

[mikegrundvig]

Thanks for all the useful discussion everyone.

Originally Posted by SuperBK

No need to port another PID library to the cRIO, WPLib already has a PID class. We used it last year to control our arm.

Thanks for bringing this up. I'd not seen this yet in the big PDF file. If it's already built into the system this seems to be an easy choice to me. The concern was adding more code on the students but a quick look in the PDF shows they've made this as easy as possible. Even the sensor and controller we'd be using has already been set up for us.

Any advice on using this in practice? Is it a good implementation or any gotchas we need to know? Thanks!

-Mike