Teams that wish to use it asynchronously may still do so - they simply need to handle the thread safety themselves (it is not that difficult, and can be done more cleanly in the calling code anyway).
These classes introduce ways to represent poses and provide easy ways to transform, rotate, and translate poses across 2d space. This classes will be especially useful for a planned odometry and kinematics suite.
Furthermore, these classes can also be used to simply represent waypoints on a field, do superstructure motion planning, etc.
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.
* Renamed LinearDigitalFilter to LinearFilter
* Filter base class removed since it wasn't useful
* C++: std::shared_ptr<> replaced with double parameter
Resetting the flag should only occur in Enable() and Reset().
IterativeRobotBase needs the flag to remain set to print epochs after
disabling the Watchdog.
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.
I don't have a good way to ensure this always works, so this is going to be a documentation issue.
But initializeHardwareConfiguration is now reentrant, so we can just have all tests call it.
* Revert "Force OpenCV to 3.1.0 (#602)"
This reverts commit 50ed55e8e2.
* Removes Simulation
* Removes old build system
* Removes old gtest
* Adds new gmock and gtest
* Updates to new ni-libraries
* removes MyRobot (to be replaced)
* moves files to new location
* Adds new sim backend and new test executables
* updates .styleguide and .gitignore
* Changes cpp WPILibVersion to a function
MSVC throws an AV with the old version.
* Disables USBCamera on all systems except for linux
* 2018 NI Libraries
* New build system
