Teleop Issue - Motor Control Seems to Freeze

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Originally Posted by compwiztobe

Since the delays total to 3 seconds, I think it will take 3 seconds to run this while loop once when you start the kicker sequence... [which] may cause some undesirable overhead.

I believe the "watchdog delay and feed" blocks waiting for the specified time so the overhead should be minimal.

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

A state machine is probably what you want here,

A state machine is a viable alternate way to do this sort of thing, but many teams have successfully used a concurrent periodic task.

We were successful using both approaches. We started out using state machines, then switched to using event-triggered periodic tasks. The periodic tasks approach is easier to look at and see the sequential flow. Makes it easier for peer review, particularly for inexperienced programmers.

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