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Subject: 
Re: Strange behavior
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
Date: 
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:18:17 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Robert Templeton writes:

Nothing like talking to yourself :), but I did finally find the problem and
it is in the code.  It isn't always what's there, but what's not.  Here's
the offending section:

//*** Move Forward ***
void moveForward(unsigned char speed)
{
  motor_a_speed(speed);
  motor_a_dir(fwd);
  motor_b_dir(off);
}

Instead of varying the speed, I had been varying the distance with this
function wrapper:

void forward(unsigned int distance)
{
   distance <<= 2;
   moveForward(MAX_SPEED);
   while(DISPLACEMENT < distance);
//*******************
   stopMotion();
   resetTurnDetector();
//********************
}

When I switched to speed variance, I figured I didn't need all of that
"useless" code in the forward() function.  Wrong!!! The lack of those two
comment-surrounded lines is the cause of the problem.

Say "Goodnight, Gracie."

Goodnight, Gracie...

D'oh!

Robert Templeton



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  Strange behavior
 
This code was working last night, but I removed some superfluous functions copied with the set (such as moveBackward() and pivotRight()) since they were not being used. All of a sudden, the robot turns okay, but never moves forward. It just sits (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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