Is Pure Pursuit Odometry going to be very useful for Spin Up? Could someone also dumb it down and explain what it does for me please lol. All i understood is “automatic steering”, but I don’t understand what that means exactly.
EDIT - Also answer the same question for Ramsete Controllers if you can!
Thanks
The short answer is no, a simple PID will give you far more bang for your buck than pp or ramsete. Pure pursuit draws a circle around the robot with a given radius, examines the point that this circle contacts on a pre-drawn path (radial, bezier, cubic, you name it), and tries to arc itself to that point. If you do this right it’s as though the robot follows the pre-drawn path.
Ramsete is a method of motion profiling with corrective terms thrown in. Pretty high-level, never done in vex afaik.
The #1 skills rank uses no odom and pid drive and turning.
The #2 rank uses odom, pid drive and turning (what a bunch of noobs)
Draw your own conclusions
#1: ez template (op)
#2: actual programming (noobs)
But in all honesty, a well tuned PID loop will do wonders for most teams. SJTU used it for their world record programming skills runs 2 seasons ago, and last season’s World Champs (PiBotics) used it as well.
