PID...?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by ablahblah

making a few case structures in LV where the launcher is brought and adjusted every, say, 10ms, to a set speed

Try a bang-bang control instead. Simpler and far more effective. You don't need CAN or Jaguar. You can do the same thing by connecting the encoder to the digital sidecar and letting FPGA process the signal.