HELP Swerve Drive!!!!!

[beandip3160]

Thats what i told everyone when we started doing this that the swerve drive would be a good summer project i was against doing it as our programming has been simplified before so that we wouldnt need many sensors however they seemed to think it would be a good idea to try it this year

[Ether]

Originally Posted by beandip3160

Thats what i told everyone when we started doing this that the swerve drive would be a good summer project i was against doing it as our programming has been simplified before so that we wouldnt need many sensors however they seemed to think it would be a good idea to try it this year

Hey, look on the bright side. Every cloud has a silver lining: think how much you'll learn.

[beandip3160]

my thoughts exactly because of swerve ive done work with encoders and potentiometers now

[Blondie3160]

our team burnt our pot up

[beandip3160]

how do you use encoders with a PID example because I just found out that we cant use them on our bot

[DominickC]

I've got little experience with PID, however it's easy to calculate where you are, the error in your system, and set an output based on said error.

I don't have access to a machine with LabView on it tonight, however if you PM me I can send you an example of correction without PID.

[beandip3160]

Ok I will thanks

[beandip3160]

Originally Posted by beandip3160

how do you use encoders with a PID example because I just found out that we cant use them on our bot

this statement is no longer valid as we have solved this problem

[beandip3160]

The pot was mounted wrong the PID works great thanks to Ether, DominickC, and Matt Krass. Thanks everyone for all the help

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by Blondie3160

our team burnt our pot up

How did that happen? Mechanical or electrical overload? If it was hooked up to the analog breakout properly, electrical load probably would not have been an issue, but I also don't see how a mechanical failure would cause it to burn up without going wicked fast (its a technical term ).

[beandip3160]

well actually we had it wired wrong it wasnt until yesterday that we found out that they plug into the analog breakout on the cRIO

[beandip3160]

I'm using the example by team 358, and have figured out the min and max on our pot however the wheels arent doing what i want they are just spinning continuously. Would it have something to do with the gains