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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Johnson
f9bece2ffb Update LiveWindow to provide continuous telemetry. (#771)
LiveWindow.updateValues() is now called from IterativeRobotBase on every
loop iteration.  Telemetry for all WPILib classes is enabled by default;
it can be disabled for specific classes using LiveWindow.disableTelemetry(),
or all telemetry can be disabled using LiveWindow.disableAllTelemetry().

This necessitated changing the hook methodology into other classes to
be more property-based rather than each class providing multiple functions.
This had the benefit of reducing boilerplate and increasing consistency.

- Remove NamedSendable, add name to Sendable.

- Provide SendableBase abstract class.

- Deprecate LiveWindow addSensor/addActuator interfaces.

- Add LiveWindow support to drive classes.

- Add addChild() helper functions to Subsystem.

- Fix inheritance hierarchy.  Now only sensors inherit from SensorBase.
  Other devices inherit from some combination of SendableBase, ErrorBase, or
  nothing.
2017-12-04 23:28:33 -08:00
Tyler Veness
34c44b7ae9 Improved Drive docs and fix implementation bugs (#774)
I also found some inconsistencies in MecanumDrive and KilloughDrive and fixed
them.

Drive now uses the NED axes convention. Therefore, the positive X axis points
ahead, the positive Y axis points to the right, and the positive Z axis points
down.

Translation in X assumes forward is positive. Translation in Y assumes right is
positive. Rotation rate assumes clockwise is positive. Angles are measured
clockwise from the positive X axis.

Based on the angle origin convention, DrivePolar() for both Mecanum and Killough
needed the normalization removed, sine used to compute the Y component, and
cosine used to compute the X component.

The vector rotation done in DriveCartesian() needs to rotate by a negative angle
instead of positive to undo the robot's rotation. RobotDrive assumed a clockwise
angle and sensors returned counter-clockwise angles, which is why it used a
positive angle for rotation.
2017-11-26 18:36:51 -08:00
Tyler Veness
19addb04cf Split RobotDrive class into a class for each drive type (#552)
DiffDrive.CurvatureDrive (aka CheesyDrive) and KilloughDrive were also added.
This reorganization paves the way for SwerveDrive.
2017-09-28 23:30:00 -07:00