Reducing Maximum Drive Speed Through Drive VI

[Cecil]

To reduce the speed to 1/3 power, simply take the joystick axis and divide it by .66. this will scale the joystick to only output a third of its normal power. For the 2 drive systems, i would assign a joystick button to where, when held down, would change a case statement to use the tank drive code, and when it is released, use the normal holonomic code.

[kully kekaula]

How exactly would something like that look? I currently have it where, in teleop, it opens the joystick and unbundles the buttons that control the case statement. Inside the case statement would be the normal teleop code for a drive system, including getting the motors and joystick and connecting them to the tank drive vi. Would something like that work? Thanks

[Cecil]

Originally Posted by kully kekaula

How exactly would something like that look? I currently have it where, in teleop, it opens the joystick and unbundles the buttons that control the case statement. Inside the case statement would be the normal teleop code for a drive system, including getting the motors and joystick and connecting them to the tank drive vi. Would something like that work? Thanks

You don't necessarily have to put the entire thing inside that case statement. Call the motor refnum and joystick refnums outside, and have one side that passes straight into the tank drive for one side (so there is only the tank drive vi in the statement), and on the other side, have the same thing, only with your math statement too to scale it down.

[kully kekaula]

Okay, thank you very much Cecil! And no worries, I figured out what you meant by divide .66. I just substituted it for dividing by 3.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Cecil

To reduce the speed to 1/3 power, simply take the joystick axis and divide it by .66.

Take a second closer look at that sentence.

[kully kekaula]

Im sorry, I should've clarified. I've gotten the reduction of speed to work but now I am confused as how to execute the two different drive systems.

[Cecil]

Originally Posted by Ether

Take a second closer look at that sentence.

Oh wow.. I need to go back to math class.. I'm sorry.. multiply it by .33…… -insert blushing emoticon here-