I had an idea, could you measure distance with the inertial sensor? The inertial sensor gives you acceleration which could be turned into velocity. @7996D_CarsonW and I made a simple code to try and test it out but, we can’t get it to print any value on the brain and when we print the raw acceleration form the inertial sensor it says 0.
double Acceleration = 0.0;
double CurrentAcceleration = 0.0; // Acceleration in m/s
float TimeStep = 0.01; //Seconds
double CurrentVelocity = 0.0;
double PreviousVelocity = 0.0;
double CurrentPosition = 0.0;
double PreviousPosition = 0.0;
int x = 1;
int xLimit = 9;
int main() {
// Initializing Robot Configuration. DO NOT REMOVE!
vexcodeInit();
while (1){
if (x >= xLimit){
Brain.Screen.clearScreen();
x = 1;
}
if (x < xLimit){
vex::task::sleep(TimeStep * 100);
Acceleration = InertialSensor.acceleration(zaxis); // G-Force
CurrentAcceleration = Acceleration * 9.80665; // m/s
CurrentVelocity = PreviousVelocity + (CurrentAcceleration * TimeStep);
CurrentPosition = PreviousPosition + (CurrentVelocity * TimeStep);
// Makes it print mulitple times before it clears
Brain.Screen.setCursor(x + 1, 2);
Brain.Screen.print(Acceleration);
CurrentVelocity = PreviousVelocity;
CurrentPosition = PreviousPosition;
x = x + 1; // Adds 1 to x
}
}
}