Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by efoote868

If you observed drifting of more than 10 degrees per minute and the robot wasn't saturating or shaking the gyro, what would you think? Would that be typical of the FRC gyro, or would that indicate a bad sensor?

We have not seen any of the recent kit provided gyros net that bad of a drift. I think bullet point #1 in Jared's list is the biggest culprit to gyro drift in a typical FRC match. Competitions are usually held in cold arenas and your robot won't start moving until a minute or two after you turn it on. We map a button on our operator console to reset the gyro calibration, and print out the current integrated angle so the driver can assess if they need to reset it. Ideally this is something we do automatically next year.