What are your opinions of using Path Planner vs. Pathweaver? We are going to attempt using one for our autonomous this coming season.
We used Pathweaver in 2021-22 and PathPlanner in 2023. The biggest reason to change was using swerve drive and not being able to do swerve trajectories in PW. That said, the features of PathPlanner were overall easy to use and we were able to use it to build paths with other commands, like scoring and balancing.
If only doing tank drive, you can reasonably use either, but we will keep using PathPlanner I think for either swerve or tank because the interface and features are more useful and intuitive for us.
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Thank you for the information. We just converted to swerve drive so this is quite helpful.
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Path Planner has seen wide-spread use by top tier teams, so you will find no lack of great examples if you look into teams’ GitHubs. Path Planner has been delightful to use for my team
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That is good to hear! Thank you.
FYI… Our software team switched from Pathweaver to Path Planner this year with our tank drive. They preferred Path Planner for that use case as well. This also set them up to be swerve ready. Our swerve test base should be finished this month. (Fingers crossed!)
Good luck in your journey.
David
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Thank you, David. This gives me an idea to have new programmers use Path Planner with a tank drive robot and for the experienced programmers to use it with the swerve drive robot that we are trying to learn. I’m the only coach/mentor for my team so I am doing my best to ask the FRC community as many questions as possible so I can learn and be ready for the start of the next school year. Best of luck to you all as well!
our team used Pathplanner this year, mainly because we were running a swerve this year. honestly, there isn’t too much of a difference between Pathplanner and PathWeaver but Pathplanner and the library make it pretty easy to integrate into your robot code, while allowing for control over your autos.
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If you are using swerve then I definitely recommend using Pathplanner.
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Path Planner is ridiculously easy to use and some for the best software I’ve seen for FRC outside of WPILib itself! Kudos to them!
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That’s great to hear!
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