New Ctrl Sys Early Ship - Benchtop Test

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

I don't believe that the autonomous code uses the motors at all. It simply strobes the solenoid module outputs something like a certain black car on TV.

P.S. Is it possible that you're thinking of the new software patch in FRCLabVIEWUpdate1.0, rather than the OTB?
That does cause a chase light sequence on the solenoid LEDs in autonomous.
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Then I think it's possible that at least two versions of the OTB shipped.
1) Autonomously strobe the solenoid lights
2) Autonomously work somewhat in accordance with the bench test description

We evidently got version 2, because there was no indicator light strobing, but autonomous did drive the pwm outputs several different ways.
With our version when the DS was booted into autonomous we saw one of these three different autonomous behaviors occur randomly intermixed.

1. pwm 2 goes full forward effectively forever all by it's lonesome self
2. Nothing happens and joystick 1 still controls the motors as in arcade teleop
3. pwm1-4 go full forward for 2 seconds

I'm just trying to figure out what to tell people at the local workshops.