What to do if you steering is inverted?

[Alex_Berger]

So we just started on our robot not that long ago, and just finished making our drive train work.

We decided to use the basic claw bot drive train that comes already downloaded on our controller because we didn’t have the time to code it then, but when we tried to drive, but our steering was inverted.

We still haven’t coded it yet because the day we were going to test it out our coder was busy, and we can only work on our robot at school because we get our parts from the school.

So if anyone knows wether or not this is just an issue with the claw bot code or if we have to do something with our code/ robot to fix this.

If we can’t fix it next practice then I’ll try to post a video of it, just in case you need it, but if we can figure it out then I’ll just delete this post.

[7862H_Highlanders]

I had this same issue, there are two options on what you can do, one is to get used to it (what I did) and the other is to fix it in the code. Fixing it in the code will swap forward and backward, but left and right will be correct relative to forward on the controls. In blocks, what I use, open your drivetrain settings and click the down arrow underneath the picture. This should be the solution to the issue. if you are using text, I am not sure how to fix it.

[bantha]

As you said you haven’t coded it yet, it could be that the ports that the motor wires are going to in the brain are swapped. (say left is 1 and right is 2, you might have them as right in 1, left in 2)

Hope this helps!

- Henry 344E

[Alex_Berger]

I tried that but all that did was make the forward & reverse swapped. Witch isn’t terrible because we haven’t made any gameplay mechanisms on our robot yet so we would just have to swap the direction that they are facing.

But it would make my life 10x easier if I didn’t have to resign the whole robot just to drive reverse, so I’m really hoping that it was the code, but I’ll just have to wait and find out.

[Jouza]

Are you guys using the basic drive program that comes preloaded on the v5 brain (aka drive) or is it a custom program created by another person?

If you are using the preloaded program, have a look at this article Drive program with the V5 Brain which talks about how you can change how the controller works.

Also check the wiring, and see if you’ve correctly wired the motors e.g. left motors connected to the left motors listed in the devices menu

[wilpoz]

If you switch the ports of the two motors that should fix it regardless of the code.

[Alex_Berger]

I will have to try that. Thanks for your help.
I’ll let you know if that works.

[Alex_Berger]

I’ve already tried doing that but it just inverts the forward & reverse