Moving bot once targeted on the light

[bear24rw]

Did you try setting the motor to 255? or 0?.. maybe 135 is just to close to neutral

[jgannon]

Max is right. 135 is still within the deadband of the speed controller. I wouldn't try 255 on the first run, but a little more (say, 150) should definitely be enough to get the robot moving. See this page: http://www.ifirobotics.com/victor-88...r-robots.shtml

The Victor 884 has a deadband with respect to the PWM signal, which is approximately 117 to 137 (127 center). Any PWM signal within the deadband results in no output (neutral).

[bronxbomber92]

Thanks.I should of mentioned two other things also.

1.) When I tried the motor I had set it to 255. But that didn't anything obviously

2.) When the camera picks up the light, it will slowly (but jumply, and jitterly) tilt upwards. As it does this, the red light blinks, instead of steadily staying on. So I suspect that it only is locked on momentarily to light, not giving enough time change the values of the pwms(?).

Sorry I didn't mention this in the first post.

[bronxbomber92]

Ok, I fixed problem 2! I'm still unsure of how to actually move the robot now though.

[DanDon]

Is your default_routine() call uncommented? If so, something might be mapped to those PWMs, and you might be getting interference between your code and the mapping in default_routine().

[bronxbomber92]

Nope, it commented out...