PIDController class (PIDSource/PIDOutput interfaces?)

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by wt200999

Give it a try and see what happens. Tell me how its goes, I am starting to look at the same thing now.


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They probably haven't implemented it themselves.

Thanks for responding. Yeah, I guess that WPI didn't get to it yet. Extending sensors/outputs should be just fine.

[BradAMiller]

The idea is that you create subclasses of whatever you want to read inheriting PIDSource and whatever you want to control inheriting PIDOutput. They provide the methods to get the values from the sensor and provide output values for the controlled thing.

It works that way because a single sensor might not be used, but maybe some group of sensors, or a camera X position, or something more complex. And the thing being controlled may be more complex then just a motor.

We'll try to post an example later today.