Vexcode V5 6 Motor Drive Train Programming

[DigoryDale]

Hi Everyone,

We decided to add a 6 motor Drive Train to our robot. We already built it but ran across problems when we went to program it. We are using Vexcode V5. We currently have been using blocks but tried in Python as well and didn’t have any results. Does anyone know how to program this?

[7996B]

you cant use the drive train feature, but you can do something like this

    Right.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis2.value(), percent);
    Right2.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis2.value();, percent);
    Right3.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis2.value();, percent);
    Left.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis3.value();, percent);
    Left2.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis3.value();, percent);
    Left3.spin(forward, Controller1.Axis3.value();, percent);

this is just simple tank control, and is just setting the motor percent to be the controller’s axis values.
(this is in VEXcode v5 pro with C++, but you can do something similar in python or blocks)

[holbrook]

In VEXcode Python or C++, you can set up a drivetrain with more than two motors on each side, just not through the graphical configurator – just create a motor group for each side and pass those groups to the drivetrain or smartdrive constructor.

[7996B]

i had no idea you could do that, thank you!

[JacobM]

@holbrook

In VEXcode Python or C++, you can set up a drivetrain with more than two motors on each side, just not through the graphical configurator – just create a motor group for each side and pass those groups to the drivetrain or smartdrive constructor.

Could you provide an example of how to do this?

[jpearman]

see this, should still be valid.

VEXcode, motor groups and drivetrain example

There have been quite a few requests for instructions on how to use motor groups and creating a drivetrain with more than 2 motors in VEXcode. I’m going to discuss these classes a little and provide a simple example. What is a motor group ? A motor group collects two or more motors together and allows control as if they were a single entity. Just about all motor class member functions (by that I mean spin, spinTo, setVelocity etc.) are available on the motor group class. We introduced motor…

[DigoryDale]

Thank you all so much! We got it to work!