Unofficial Reply: Robot moving on its own

[callen]

@newbiebot wrote elsewhere

One of our robots is moving when the program tells it to move when the controller stick does but its moving on its own, why is this happening?

The sticks may not sit exactly at 0. The result of this is that the robot sees some non-zero value to set the motors to. The solution is to set a dead zone. For example, instead of

motor[port2] = vexRT[Ch2];

try naming a variable (motorSpeed here) and using it this way:

motorSpeed = vexRT[Ch2];
if(abs(motorSpeed) < 10)
   motorSpeed = 0;
motor[port2] = motorSpeed;

[9065_Parker]

I didn’t see this when I posted mine, good response.