If users are attempting to use the output range to limit the controller
action, they should use ProfiledPIDController instead. If they actually
intended to clamp the output, they should use std::clamp().
It breaks the unit system badly; the tolerance member variable has
different units depending on percent vs absolute. Absolute tolerance is
a lot more natural than percent tolerance anyway.
Since there is a new version of GearsBot using the new command-based
API, the old GearsBot is just removed.
PR #1842 is being included to verify this PR is correct.
This is the C++ version of #1682.
The old command framework is still available, but will be deprecated.
Due to name conflicts, the new framework is in the frc2 namespace.
Eventually (after the old command framework is removed in a future year)
it will be moved into the main frc namespace.
A templated hal::Handle class is used to wrap handles to make them move-only.
This eliminates a lot of boilerplate move constructor/assignment code
in the main WPILib classes. HAL_SPIPort and HAL_I2CPort are also wrapped.
The wrapper class does not implement destruction. This would require the
wrapper class to be handle-specific (rather than generic) and would result
in more code added than it removed, plus would add header dependencies on
more HAL headers. In addition, some HAL handle release functions are more
complex (e.g. have return values) and can't be easily mapped to a destructor.
The old command framework is still available, but will be deprecated.
Due to name conflicts, the new framework is in the wpilibj2 package.
Eventually (after the old command framework is removed in a future year)
it will be moved into the main wpilibj package.
This adds a wrapper over EJML's SimpleMatrix that uses generated classes representing numbers to encode the dimensions of each matrix at compile time, and to check operations between matrices for validity at compile time, rather than failing with an exception at runtime. This is required for the Java implementation of state-space control.
Additions to the wpiutil gradle script, and a python script at the wpiutil root are used to generate numeric types from a template at build time for both gradle and cmake. Users will be able to access types through functions on the Nat class.
Add unit-taking overloads to the following classes:
- IterativeRobotBase
- LinearFilter
- Notifier
- TimedRobot
- Timer (HasPeriodPassed only)
- frc2::PIDController
The corresponding non-units-taking functions have been deprecated.
The return value of TimedRobot::GetPeriod() was updated.
This is a breaking change, users should use to<double> to get the value in seconds.
Other return values, e.g. Timer::Get(), have NOT been updated due to much wider use.
Was only there for mac usb cam support, but we likely won't get to it this summer anyway,
and its causing a breakage in the backing libraries with cross builds
