Controlling Motor Turns Autonomous

[btcshields6]

These two pictures sorta show what I'm working with.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by btcshields6

These two pictures sorta show what I'm working with. Attachment 18324Attachment 18325

The longitudinal axis of your CIM is clearly not concentric with the wheel axis. So there are some gears involved.

[btcshields6]

You're right Ether. I'm sorry...I'm not the most mechanically minded member of the team. I've got someone mounting the encoder on an axle right now. I'm hoping to use it to control the motors during autonomous, but I'm not so sure what to do next. I'm going to try and use the Motor with Encoder example included with Labview, but it looks to me as if that gives me encoder information, not actual ways to affect the motors with that information. Not so sure really. I also have read something about PID. Where do I implement that?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by btcshields6

it looks to me as if that gives me encoder information, not actual ways to affect the motors with that information.

If the motor and the encoder are both mechanically linked to the gearbox, then the encoder can give information about the motor.

To get a jump-start to understanding PID, you may find the following YouTube video quite helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuR...n0gJUQ&index=2

Others can help you with LabVIEW implementation details.