joystick sensitivity

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by Stonefan5271138

I'm not really into programming, but I do know from driving the robot that our controls are also really sensitive and sometimes do get stuck so the robot moves by itself after someone has driven it. If you want to make a makeshift fix on your joystick, you can probably take apart the joystick and play around with the springs in the joystick and see if they are better or not after doing that. It might work...it might not...but good luck writing the program...

...Actually...once I think of my method...it seems really stupid...sorry.

Actually, your idea is a very good one. We did it last year and this year with great success.

The deadband will solve your problem of the robot not stopping when you let the joysticks return to "center," but it doesn't help with your sensitivity problem. You can go for a full PID controller, but a low pass filter, which is basically just the P of a PID, will probably do the trick. I can get you our code from this year in an hour or two.