motor programming

[itwasntme455]

Originally Posted by mshafer1

It sounds like you need to use a state machine, there's several tutorials at This LabVIEW Tutorial Site, it sounds like you would have a forward, second motor, and reverse (or more descriptive for what those motors do). A state machine can be implemented in either periodic tasks or in Teleop (only caveat is that when done in Teleop, one either needs to insert a while loop that only runs once (constant on the terminal), or use the main program while loop and pass the data in and out of Teleop.

So the motor that will run constantly will control our elevator, when button A (move up) is held down or button B is held down(move down). The motor we want to run for 5 seconds one direction when button A or B is pressed will release a brake mechanism then when button A or B is released it will spin the motor back 5 second to the original spot to reengage the brake.