Inductor and Smooth Joysticks

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Hi All,
Using capacitors to simulate a ramp up is an interesting way to go for this solution. There is some interesting effects that take place though that would make their operation on robot function a little weird. If you are just thinking of a capacitor taking a finite amount of time to charge up to a value, than you are right. But a charged capacitor also takes a finite time to discharge and both the charge and discharge times are a function of the resistances in the joystick and the input circuit of the contoller. All in all, you would be more happy with the results when acceleration are handled by software.