pic: 20's IRI Carnage

[MichaelBick]

Originally Posted by KrazyCarl92

One odd thing that we did with our implementation of the shifters was putting one of our talons in coast mode and one in brake mode on each side of the drive train. Our drivers did not like that the robot was coasting so much when we lined up to shoot from the corner and it significantly increased our time to line up for shots. We tried putting all of our talons in brake mode on the drive train and the motion was far too jerky to be desirable. We then decided to try one motor in brake mode and one in coast mode and we found it to be a great sweet spot. The motion was not too jerky and we were capable of lining up for shots much more quickly.

Could this have contributed to the dog failure? Intuitively it would not seem to make that much of a difference, but I do not know how many teams have tried running a configuration similar to this.

This seems like it could have contributed to the failure. What you may want to try in the future is to have the drivers pull back on the joysticks a little when they want the robot to stop. This will create a situation electrically very similar to the break mode on the speed controllers, without the extra jerkyness