Programming option for next year?

[faust1706]

Originally Posted by Aero

Because stickers are an oversimplified control system for the complex beasts that are FIRST robots?

I don't know the capabilities of stickers, but if it can loop, set motor values, has conditional statements, and read sensor data, then it can be used for FRC. The control systems for FRC robots are elementary at best. It's (for the most part) tele-operated, and the autonomous routines can be drafted in an hour if you sit down and think about it.

And it's not like teams really follow the method of developing control systems. They don't make a formal mathematical representation of the system you want to control (and then linearizing it). They don't analyse it by using its phase portrait by computing the state trajectory or by looking at its initial response. They don't switch to frequency from time via the Laplace transform, or compute the eigenvalues, obtain the transform function, and plot the Nyquist and Bode diagram. Or design a control loop based on a control law such as state feedback or pole placement.