Damping the joystick at 1

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Originally Posted by Pirate programe

Sorry for the undescriptive name, but there's no real way to describe this with my high-school math knowledge.

We've noticed that when our robot goes at a speed, and then moves in the opposite direction at the same speed, it starts tipping over. As such, we'd like the joystick, when it is set to a certain value (let's say 1), to slowly ramp up toward that value, instead of immediately going to it.

Any ideas?

Run your joystick commands through a rate-limit filter.

Do the LabVIEW equivalent of this:

change = joystick - limitedJoystick;
if (change>limit) change = limit;
else (if change<-limit) change = -limit;
limitedJoystick += change;

limit is the amount of change you will allow every iteration

limitedJoystick is the rate-limited joystick value you use to control your motors.