REV Robotics - 2023/24 Product Releases & Updates

Knowing how specifically smart motion works internally would be nice. It appears to not close the loop on position, which would make it not very useful to maintain a given position. There are various discussions on this here on CD. It appears to simply set “velocity = 0” at the end of a motion, which would suggest that it can’t effectively maintain a given position of a mechanism.

Also what settings require a burn flash, and which don’t. I’ve been experiencing issues with this on the REVLib 2024 beta, of some parameters not flashing correctly from Java. I made a post recently on this on CD.

Also, position PID simulation is broken in REVLib. Velocity simulation works fine.

It’s not clear to me what the difference between “smart velocity” and “velocity” control modes is.

Any updates to the REV Hardware Client? I personally have had some issues with it like clicking the telemetry graph button causing it to crash.

Is there any additional functionality that the Vortex/Flex will provide that we should be aware of?

These are the things that occur to me at the moment.

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