2009 Control System Possibility?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

Yes, with more advanced hardware the potential of what can be done with it goes up, but the current hardware can be made to work. Are you telling me that an arbitrary rookie team with no programming experience would be able knock two balls down and do 5 lines this year had the controller been more advanced?

I'm not so worried about the processing power or the programming language as I am about its interfaces. Give me out of the box current monitoring with an easy I2R comp. code module (every CIM motor is about the same, right?),. Give me quad encoder inputs on the motor controllers. Give me something better than plug the square plug into the round hole and then apply some magic code, that may or may not work.

I have worked with many rookie teams through 125's Ask An Engineer program and Boston's Regional Mentor program. Teams need this stuff.