West Coast Drive Code

[Ether]

Originally Posted by arun4444

Great, quick question -

would setting

a = 0.25;
b = 0.40;

be similar to setting:

a=0
b=1

and passing the joystick inputs through a cubic?

No. Why would you think it would?

[arun4444]

I am using java code and apparently the JAVA ME does not have built in support for cuberoots etc. We originally had a cubic providing a non linear throttle response in our old code - i guess my question was does tweaking a and b provide a similar response as standard wpilib arcade drive with a cubic on top?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by arun4444

i guess my question was does tweaking a and b provide a similar response as standard wpilib arcade drive with a cubic on top?

No. Tuning "a" and "b" just changes the endpoints at (X=+/-1,Y=0) and (X=+/-1, Y=+/-1). The interpolation is linear between those endpoints. That's why I named it "Tunable Linear Interpolated Arcade".