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Re: [FTC]: Spin Motor Wind Down: Programming

jamie_1930:

Yes, that should do the trick as well. You'd need to add a little more code to reset your runtime counter (x) once it hits 1000 or if the launcher is reactivated and do some testing to find the optimal limit. Even though it is just sample code, a team using the analog sticks would need to also compensate for a deadzone in your first example.

One last note on this is that my students observed a difference in how smoothly the shooter mechanism came to a stop depending upon whether or not they floated the motors. If braking was enabled (the default) then the mechanism would slow down until about 20% power and still stop fairly hard due to the motor attempting to brake (maintain speed) at low power and not overcoming the torque to keep driving the gears. If they floated the motors first, then the mechanism would slow down nice and smooth all the way using its own momentum.
Test and experiment; YMMV.

EricVanWyk:

ROBOTC makes it easy to spin up separate threads (tasks for the NXT) where you can use wait statements without pausing your primary control loop code (located in the main task). In this model, you shouldn't care how fast the processor can execute your primary control loop and have to guess a counter limit, because you can explicitly set how many milliseconds you want to wait between stepping up or down power to a motor in a separate task. No guessing and the code will be much more optimized anyway.
Yes, ROBOTC supports floating point calculations.

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