Vex Pro Ball Shifter Questions

[MichaelBick]

Originally Posted by T^2

I'm struggling to see how this is possible. You'd have to know your initial velocity for this to work, which sort of defeats the whole purpose.

If you know your acceleration and how long you've been accelerating, you can calculate velocity(based off of an initial velocity of zero at the beginning of the match). As you well know, there are so many ways this becomes inaccurate which is why it is a completely unreliable and nonviable method for figuring out your velocity and an encoder(which was made for this purpose) makes so much more sense.