Tips On What PID And Odometry Are And How To Learn Them?

[andromedagalactic4]

Hello All,
I have been reading through different forum posts and found a lot of mentions about PID and Odometry. What exactly are these, how to use them, and how to learn them?
My basic knowledge is that PID stands for Proportional, Integral, and Derivative, but I would love more information, especially since I am a programmer!
Thank you!

[jpearman]

There are so many topics about this, please use search, for example.

Learning PIDS

What are some good resources to learn PIDs. Some example online use RobotC and some that use Vex V5 are using older syntax. How did you learn them?

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Team 5225 Introduction to Position Tracking Document

Hello World, As you can probably tell from my post history, I’m not nearly as active here as I should be. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Nick Mertin, and I was the head programmer for Team 5225A, The E-Bots PiLons during the 2017-2018, In The Zone season. I have since graduated, but still remain a mentor for the team. Over the past couple of months, myself and the other programming team members and alumni, by popular demand, have been working on a document describing our Absol…

[2775Josh]

This paper is pretty much all you need for PID in vex:
introduction_to_pid_controllers_ed2.pdf (400.2 KB)

Also, free odom and PID (for VexCode Pro V5) right here:

GitHub - JacksonAreaRobotics/JAR-Template: A simple and powerful VexCode Pro...

[andromedagalactic4]

Thanks, I’ll be sure to check these out! I should have searched in the first place, but it totally slipped from my mind!

[andromedagalactic4]

Thanks! I’ll check them out!