Motion Planning and Control for FRC - FIRST Championship Conference Session

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

What level of math are you planning to get into?

There will be some advanced high school level math, but nothing more than that.

There will be no root locus plots, Laplace transforms, or serious state-space math. Those are certainly useful tools, but there are already textbooks devoted to them. There will be algebra, some calculus, and some light differential equations.

We will be presenting some ideas whose derivations involve all of the above concepts, but we intend to be pragmatic and focus on shedding light on the intuition behind the math. We will also talk about best practices and FRC "tribal knowledge" to help overcome common problems in implementing motion control on our robots.