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Re: Safety Issue: Robots Moving in Pits

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Originally Posted by jman4747 View Post
What would you tell a team trying to test a drive running PID in their pit? Put it on the floor?
Our interim "fix" at the time was to clamp some thick paper (packing material) to the frame so that it rubbed on the wheel and provided some load to the motor being tested.

Back in the IFI controller era many years ago, we did run a robot on the floor in the pit in order to tune and test the autonomous drive routines. We didn't run the actual auton code, just some test commands through the serial "program port" link to tell it to drive forward or backward six inches, or to rotate left or right ten degrees at a time. We did a six foot run once or twice, with advance warning to our pit neighbors and a couple of lines of students making sure nobody was going to be in the danger zone. And always there was someone prepared to slap the big red Emergency Stop mushroom on our auton/disable dongle.
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