Team 871 is trying all types of technologies available to be used on robots.
Please post any new ideas that you would like to be seen tested.
Below, we test gyroscopic field control and sonar technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5qmXsyFFw
Let us know what you think and what other concepts we can put to the
test! Thanks in advance. 
How is sonar being tested in this video?
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Maybe I’m still too much a rookie to get it. It just looks like a well driven robot. Perhaps a before vs after, split-screen style, of driving without your gyroscopic code on, then with it on would illustrate it better.
The rotating-while-simultaneously-driving-in-a-straight-line maneuver shown in the video is quite difficult to do with robot-centric control.
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This point in the video demonstrates exactly where their gyro-based control is evident.
There is another video from a few years back demonstrating the same concept:http://www.team1058.com/media/video/FieldOrientedDrive2010.mov
It seems to me the poster from my team miss understood the use of the sonar, The sonar was actually being used to help in alignment, so the robot can be as parallel as possible to the hoops when scoring, not to aid in driving. I hope this clears everything up.
Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t that code just using the Cartesian Mecanum Drive block with the gyroscope input being wired? Or am I thinking of something completely different?