About Our Programming

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​Our robot is programmed with the ROBOTC software. It has a semi-working autonomous, and fully functional driving control. It was almost all created by Nate Shu, head programmer.

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Autonomous:

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       Our autonomous is very interesting. It sometimes spins in circles., but usually just sits still and twitches.  If you see us ever dancing, it is because our autonomous does not work.  However, when it does work, it moves forward, lifts the four-bar lift, and moves the grabbers to dump a pre-load into a trough. Yet, this only works at times.

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​Driving:

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Our driving control works better than our autonomous. It uses multiple buttons to trigger motor-motion. The driving is set up so that we have functions for forward, reverse, sideways, and turning in a circle. It allows us to gain much agility. We may also have a PID loop to lift the four-bar lift. It uses the potentiometer readings to adjust the motor power on the lift. It allows us to account for unknown variables, like additional bean bag weight. All of the buttons have a specific motor power, and is triggered by the press of the button.