VEX V5 Text Robot Movement Code is Not Working Properly. Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated

[weilin]

You have several problems with your code.

First, you are missing usercontrol() with its while() loop.
Second, you are mixing buttons and joystick controls.

Please, refer to these topics for examples on how to implement usercontrol()

Understanding Competition Methods & Template

I’m just going to throw this code up. It demonstrates a couple of things, how to start and stop tasks, how to monitor competition control to perform actions when the robot goes in and out of enabled. Ask questions as necessary. #include "robot-config.h" /*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* */ /* Module: main.cpp */ …

and then mecanum controls inside its while loop

@Codec

int left = Controller.Axis3.position(vex::percent);
int right = Controller.Axis2.position(vex::percent);
int sideways = Controller.Axis4.position(vex::percent);

//you can also calculate this...
int turn =    (right - left) * 0.5;
int forward = (right + left) * 0.5;

frontRight.spin(vex::forward, right - sideways, vex::percent);
frontLeft.spin(vex::forward,  left  + sideways, vex::percent);
backRight.spin(vex::forward,  right + sideways, vex::percent);
backLeft.spin(vex::forward,   left  - sideways, vex::percent);

Arcade Drive

int forward = Controller.Axis3.position(vex::percent);
int sideways = Controller.Axis4.position(vex::percent);
int turn = Controller.Axis1.position(vex::percent);

frontRight.spin(vex::forward, forward - sideways + turn, vex::percent);
frontLeft.spin(vex::forward,  forward + sideways - turn, vex::percent);
backRight.spin(vex::forward,  forward + sideways + turn, vex::percent);
backLeft.spin(vex::forward,   forward - sideways - turn, vex::percent);

Also, if you haven’t seen it this is very helpful explanation of the drivetrain class

https://api.vexcode.cloud/v5/html/classvex_1_1drivetrain.html

@jpearman

A drivetrain does not handle complex drive systems such as X or H drives, however, it will work with a mecanum wheel based drive but you would have to add your own code for strafing.