What are some clever programs that your team use to make your driver control more efficient? (eg. raise lift to tower height by pressing one button).

Well I know we (and lots of others) have 1 button that backs our robot up and runs the intakes slowly so we can stack

Nice. Our intake get pushed out by the tray when we push so we don’t have that

Decreasing sensitivity for the drive helps make driving smoother without removing it’s max speed

How? In our recent comp we have this problem and what I did is just decreasing the joystick value by 3/4

That’s one way to do it, another popular method is to cube the joystick values (taking “the joystick value” as a float between -1 and 1 in each axis), that way you get more sensitivity at low motor powers for precise movement while still being able to use 100% power when you want it.

Do you put the axis value into the float? (Something like this?) float axisone = Controller1.Axis1.value();

I plan on having a sensor know when my tray is full, and drive slowly when it is so that I don’t accidentally spill cubes

So if you’re getting joystick values as a percent (int from -100 to 100), then the easiest thing to do is probably to divide the controller value by 100, then cube it, then scale the cubed result back by 100 (because you probably want it scaled back up to feed as a power value to motors): int cube_…

This is really good. With a drfb I increase the value of the exponent as the drfb gets higher so it’s less likely to tip

[image] holbrook: So if you’re getting joystick values as a percent (int from -100 to 100), then the easiest thing to do is probably to divide the controller value by 100, then cube it, then scale the cubed result back by 100 (because you probably want it scaled back up to feed as a power value …

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There we show how we automated our flywheel angler in driver control, and made ourselves some higher level controls.