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Re: Unexpected results from Encoder::GetRate()

Joe figured out what the disconnect was.

A proper quadrature decoder has a sawtooth-shaped error. This is typical of any digital measurement of a continuous value. Usually, one chooses the interpretation of the actual value to be between the transitions rather than right at them. This places the "zero error" level midway up the sawtooth, yielding a quantization error of +/- half the precision. The hysterical scheme instead puts the "zero error" level at the bottom of the sawtooth when traveling in one direction, and at the top when traveling in the other. The quantization error is either between 0 and 1, or between 0 and -1. Such a scheme strikes me as less desireable in every way but one -- that one way being ease of implementation when the only tool is an inflexible edge detector.

Any scheme with a one-count lag when changing direction can not give the same answer at both the beginning and the end of a round trip. If it says you're at the bottom of the mountain when you start, and you go far enough for it to say you're at the top, it will still say you're at the top after you return to the bottom. Trying to measure the position at the transition is always problematic. Once you choose which side of the discontinuity you want to compare things on, the advantages of each scheme become much more clear...and I see no obvious advantages to the scheme with the lag on direction reversal.
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