I’m the coder for my team and I have been debating whether or not we should use odometry this year. I have never used it before and I don’t use or plant to use any templates. Is it really going to be that useful? I have done some research and I’m split 50/50 on the decision.
I’m aiming for a very high scoring auto in match and skills.
I wrote a PID controller that I still need to tune.
Should I talk with the team and add Odom?
Odometry will always be useful. But what’s your concern?
I am using an inertial sensor for PID and a seperate tracking wheel for more accuracy but no odometry. Don’t think it will be useful. but I can switch to it easily as I already have the hardware required.
Odom is useful but is not required, Odom tracks your robot’s exact position as the input to your pid allowing for error correction if the robot get off track. if you don’t use Odom you should use some way to reset your robot’s position, such as distance sensors.
Yes odom will dramatically improve your auton consistency
Just setting it up and learning how to use it without a template or anything.