Also added a GetAvgError method to the PIDController
which averages the past n error values for use with
noisy sensor values (namely, for the velocity stuff).
Change-Id: I8a9cf40259dd56ef9093b36ed6891cc18b9131cf
This avoids large additions introduced by the D term when a step change occurs in the setpoint. Otherwise, the changes return the same values. Let error = setpoint - input and prevError = prevSetpoint - prevInput. If the D term is calculated via error - prevError, then:
error - prevError = (setpoint - input) - (prevSetpoint - prevInput)
If we ignore the setpoint changing, then we get:
error - prevError = (setpoint - input) - (setpoint - prevInput)
= prevInput - input
Change-Id: Ifa4af9b265e3c4bd263e8541355f2b80269693e9
The HAL will remain untouched in order to maintain C-style
compatibility. A few places in wpilibc were left as
C-style strings, especially if special formatting (eg,
elaborate uses of snprintf or sscanf) was being used.
In general, const char* was changed to std::string.
character buffers used for formatting were either
untouched, changed to std::stringstream, or changed
to std::string, depending on what was done with
the buffer.
Change-Id: I5e431ddf1cc4d9a6d534e1f21b16ea23be26e7f1
This deals with the majority of the user-facing code
in wpilibC++Devices and a substantial portion of it in
wpilibC++. wpilibC++Sim and wpilibC++IntegrationTests
are untouched except where it is necessary to make them
work with the rest of the libraries.
There is still a lot to do in the following areas:
-The HAL (which we may not want to touch at all).
-The I2C, Serial, and SPI interfaces in wpilibC++Devices,
which I haven't gotten around to doing yet.
-Most wpilibC++Devices classes have void* pointers
for interacting with the HAL.
-InterruptableSensorBase passes a void *params for
the interrupt handler.
-I haven't converted all the const char* to std::strings.
-There are plenty of other cases of raw pointers still
existing.
-This doesn't fall directly under raw pointer stuff,
but move syntax and rvalue references could be introduced
in many places.
-I haven't touched vision code.
-The Resource classes conflict (one is in the hal, the other
in wpilibC++). Someone should figure out a more
permanent fix (eg, just renaming them), then doing
what I did (making a new namespace for one of them,
essentially the same as renaming it).
A few other things:
-I created a NullDeleter class which is marked as deprecated.
What this does is it can be passed as the deleter to a
std::shared_ptr so that when you are converting raw pointers
to shared_ptrs the shared_ptr doesn't do any deletion if
someone else owns the raw pointer. This should only be
used in making old raw pointer UIs.
-I had to alter the build.gradle so that it did not
emit errors when deprecated functions called deprecated
functions. Unfortunately, gradle doesn't appear to be
actually printing out gcc warnigns for some reason.
The best way I have found to fix this is to patch
the toolchains (https://bitbucket.org/byteit101/toolchain-builder/pull-request/5/make-gcc-not-throw-warnings-for-nested/diff)
so that a deprecated function calling a deprecated
function is fine but a non-deprecated function calling
a deprecated function will throw a warning (which we
then elevate with -Werror). I believe that clang
deals with this properly, although I have not
tried it myself.
Change-Id: Ib8090c66893576fe73654f4e9d268f9d37be06a2
Loops were converted to their range-based equivalents, variable types were replaced with auto where the type was already specified on the same line, the override keyword was added, and instances of NULL and assignments of 0 to pointers were replaced with nullptr.
Change-Id: If281e46a2e2e1c37f278d56df9915236d4b2c864
The changes made in this commit do not affect any actual code,
they are purely aesthetic. I ran clang-format with google style
over all .h/.cpp files in wpilibc that weren't in wpilibC++Sim
or gtest, and the eclipse formatter over all of the Java files
using the Google eclipse formatting configuration.
Change-Id: I9627bca0bc103c398ecc1c5ba17467193291ae63
For C++: The PIDController loop had been changed to run an infinite loop
with a Wait(period) rather than using the Notifier class to schedule
exact runs of the CallCalculate command. Essentially a revert to bb50f4b134,
accounting for more recent changes.
For Java: A similar problem had developed; essentially, a TimerTask used
to be used and at some point was changed to a Runnable. The Runnable had
an infinite loop with a Wait; TimerTask actually schedules things reasonably
(although it is not strictly real-time). Also, there were some
Thread-safety issues which I fixed.
Although Java and C++ had similar issues, they seem to have developed
these issues independently.
Changes have been tested on the GearsBot in both C++ and Java (and it
works).
Change-Id: I478cb8bfd77cd2d031f8e343d0b8193b602dcc2a
