SampleRobot provides no benefits over RobotBase to advanced teams and
TimedRobot is recommended for everyone else.
A skeleton template for RobotBase was added.
std::scoped_lock was introduced in C++17 and is strictly better than
std::lock_guard as it supports locking any number of mutexes safely.
It's also easier to use than std::lock for locking multiple mutexes at
once.
Timer didn't have working move semantics because mutexes aren't
moveable, meaning the default implementations were ill-formed.
MotorSafety wasn't locking its mutex.
Originally, PIDController used PIDSource with its "PIDSourceType" to
determine whether a class should return position or velocity to the
controller. However, the supported languages have changed a lot over 10
years and now support lambdas. Instead of using PIDSource and PIDOutput,
users can pass in doubles to the Calculate() function synchronously.
This makes the controller much more flexible for team's needs as they no
longer have to make a separate PIDSource-inheriting class just to
provide a custom input.
The built-in feedforward was removed. Since PIDController is synchronous
now, they can add their own feedforward on top of what Calculate()
returns.
To facilitate running the controller asynchronously, there is a
PIDControllerRunner class that handles that. By separating the loop from
the control law, PIDController can now be composed with others and be
used to control a drivetrain (a multiple input, multiple output system
that requires summing the results from two controllers) much easier.
Also, motion profiling can be used to set the reference over time.
All the classes related to the old PIDController are now deprecated. The
new classes are in an experimental namespace to avoid name conflicts.
While this is a large change, I think it is a necessary one for growth.
The old PIDController design was created in a time when languages only
supported OOP, and we have more tools at our disposal now to solve
problems. This more versatile implementation can be used in more places
like as a replacement for Pathfinder's "EncoderFollower" class.
There has been hesitation to add lambda support to WPILib for a while
now out of concerns for requiring teams to learn more features of C++ or
Java. In my opinion, this change makes PIDController easier to use, not
harder. The concept of a function is a building block of OOP and should
be learned before classes. The ability to store functions as first-class
objects and invoke them just like variables is rather natural.
Note that PID constants for the new controller will be different from
the old one. The original controller didn't take the discretization
period into account. To fix this, teams should just have to divide their
Ki gain by 0.05 and multiply their Kd gain by 0.05 where 0.05 is the
original default period.
This can be dangerous as it refers to a temporary, and GCC 9.0 warns about
its use. Instead add std::initializer_list overloads to common places it
was used in an initializer_list sense.
* Renamed LinearDigitalFilter to LinearFilter
* Filter base class removed since it wasn't useful
* C++: std::shared_ptr<> replaced with double parameter
* ErrorBase: Use magic static singleton for globals
* ErrorBase: Add testability features for global errors
* Make WPIError definitions inline functions
(This works around cross-DLL variable issues on Windows)
Fixes#1726.
* Update MSVC arguments
* Fix json allocator
* Fix simulation diamond
* Bump gtest
* Remove empty varargs in unit tests
* Replace test case with test suite
* Remove deprecation warning in optional
* Remove need for NOMIXMAX to be defined in wpilib headers
* Fix C++ ShuffleboardComponent template type
* Fix `WithWidget(WidgetType&)`not being properly capitalized
* Fix data members across dll boundaries by using enum for built in types
Add a Sendable wrapper for VideoSource objects.
Add convenience methods for adding video sources directly to containers
so users won't have to manually wrap video sources.
The 2019 FPGA image switched the output of auto SPI from plain bytes to a
sequence of 32-bit words (timestamp, then words with the byte values in the
least significant byte of each word).
In addition to changing the HAL and simulators to reflect this, add piecewise
integration support to wpilibc/wpilibj SPI to take advantage of the timestamps
and use it in the ADXRS450 gyro.
Notifier has one thread per instance because the callbacks must be
asynchronous. Watchdog callbacks can be synchronous, so this overhead
can be done away with via a scheduler thread akin to what the HAL
Notifier does.
Most of the MotorSafety implementation was moved into the MotorSafety base
class. SafePWM's inheritance of MotorSafety was moved into PWM to
eliminate Java needing a helper class.
In Java, a helper class for Sendable (SendableImpl) was added due to
lack of multiple inheritance.
PR #1300 supersedes it, but won't be merged until the 2020 season. Since
SynchronousPID hasn't been used during a season, it would be best to
just remove it to avoid breakage when we deprecate and remove it again.
