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| title: Stage 1C Overview | ||
| description: An overview of Stage 1A | ||
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| If you've watched matches from any recent FRC game, you'll notice that robots typically have to line up quite precisely with a field element to score. | ||
| Take this example from Purdue University's Robot in 3 Days (Ri3D) team showcasing their autoalign program: | ||
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| In 2026, robots had to line up with the hub to successfully shoot fuel. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Nit: aligning != lining up to |
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| In 2025, robots had to line up with hangers on the reef to place coral. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. branches is the correct term |
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| To execute these tasks, teams run automatic positioning programs rather than burdening the driver with such precise movements. | ||
| In Stage 1C, you will learn fundamental concepts pertaining to "control theory:" a field of research dedicated to guiding real-world systems (such as robots) to do the things we want. | ||
| Control theory guides the motion of each and every mechanism you will program in FRC. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. I'm honestly kinda opposed to talking about the term "control theory" explicitly at all - or maybe bring it up later. Seems a little more academic than what we want to focus on here. Not an awful strongly held opinion though |
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| ## Key Concepts | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. The terms feedback and feedforward should appear somewhere here |
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| In FRC, different mechanisms can be thought of as "systems." | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. What's the point of renaming this? |
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| Mechanisms have "states" such as position, angle, velocity, and acceleration. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Especially when you use the term mechanism here, and flip flop in the remaining bullet points |
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| A PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) controller takes a desired state of a system, called a "setpoint," and guides a system's actual state towards this setpoint. | ||
| The output of your mechanism's control algorithm is called "control effort," and, in FRC, control effort will almost always be measured in Volts. | ||
| You can track the states, setpoints, and control efforts of your robots through logging with Telemetry, a system for sending data between the robot and the driver station. | ||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Since telemetry is meant to be its own topic, start the sentence with it. 'Telemetry is the process of sending data...' |
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| ## Stage 1C Goals | ||
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| By the end of Stage 1C, you'll program a feature which enables your kitbot's drivetrain to automatically and smoothly turn in place to any given angle such that your kitbot can aim towards the hub on its own. | ||
| You will also be able to read data from your kitbot via logging with Telemetry. | ||
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| This stage will cover the following topics: | ||
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| - WIP | ||
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I like what you're getting at here, but I wonder if this is the right framing. We're more making a robot turn in place here, not aligning to a target - even if those are pretty similar operations in practice. Also in the sense that this is showing a swerve bot while they're actually programming a tank bot.
Drive + turn in place autos aren't really a think you see in the program these days, in the age of swerve, but that's kinda what we're building towards in this stage.
@Adrianamm @roboteer5291 thoughts?
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Do you think that it would then be better to instead show video from a past game of a tank robot turning in place?
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If you can find a good video, maybe? But any tank video like that would be a bit dated anyways. I wouldn't stress about this too much, we can always look back over this once 1c is more built out