Alternative to PID speed control

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Originally Posted by mommazzboy

A couple of questions:
1. How often were you asking the Jag for the speed?
2. How quickly were you running the control loop?
3. Were you able to compensate for the load that the ball puts on the motors quickly enough as to keep them at the correct speed?

I'm not Martin, but until he reads your post and replies, here's a preliminary response:

Questions 1 & 2:
I'm guessing this controller would work fine in TeleOp. If that is the case, the answer to both questions 1 & 2 would be 20ms¹.

Question 3:
For this application, no other control scheme provides faster spin-up or recovery time than the controller Martin described². So if Martin's controller approach doesn't respond quickly enough, you won't be able to improve things by using PID.


¹ if the CAN cannot respond that fast, the encoder could be moved to the cRIO and read by the FPGA.
² we used to call this a "bang-bang" control (for obvious reasons) when I was working aerospace back in the '80s.
. see this: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh....php?p=1146748
. @Martin: what was your criterion for selecting the voltage ramp rate? did you try this with a much faster ramp?