I’ve been working with RobotC for a decade now, but am just now working on understanding PID control. There are plenty of tutorials out there and I am making my way through those.
My question is: in RobotC’s Motors and Sensors Setup there is a check box for “PID control” when you mark IME. What exactly does this do? Is there some kind of internal PID control it does on its own? I don’t see any way to adjust constants.
I’ve tried checking it on a move forward for a certain count, and it is a little better and doesn’t overshoot as much, but is not completely consistent.
TIA
I am not sure but I think it is just for a classroom setting and not competition.
There is a built in PID feauture; I do not really know how to do it though I have heard (and have experienced when making the comparison) that just writing your own is better when you are able to do it as you can variate it (add gyro/encoder straightening and limit things such as accel, velocity, and change the “spline”) and it is generally more reliable when done correctly.
If you are thinking about using it I would say just write your own.
I think this post by Jpearman explains the IME PID.
https://vexforum.com/t/robotc-has-pid-to-control-your-flywheel/31108/1
This is helpful. Setting RobotC to “Super User” lets you adjust PID.
That is good to hear. Just searching on the forum about this topic would likely yield in a lot of other results that may be useful as well since PID generally is a hot topic.