DRV-01: First drive with the five files - wheels, sticks, slow and pause

high priorityReal robotabout 30 minDriving

• Your robot needs: Mecanum drive or Tank drive (2 or 4 motors).
• Starter bots that fit: goBILDA starter bot, REV DUO starter bot, AndyMark Robits starter bot, Studica starter bot.
• Library version: v0.16.0 or newer.
• The docs it tests: Lesson 2: Drive, Quick start: a driving robot in 30 minutes.

Why

Driving is the first thing a team sees work. We want to know that the drive line in Robot.java works on many drivetrains, and that the motor-direction steps in lesson 2 find a wrong wheel.

Safety

• First run with the robot on a block, wheels off the ground.
• Keep maxPower and practiceMaxPower at 0.4 in Tunables.java for this test.
• A clear floor and a hand near the Driver Station STOP button.

Setup

• The robot in five files with your drive line (from the Quick start or a template).
• Your TeleOp built and installed.

Steps

1. Robot on a block. INIT your TeleOp, then START.
2. Push the left stick up. Every wheel must roll the way that moves the robot forward. Fix any wheel with lesson 2 section 7, and count how many fixes you needed.
3. Put the robot on the floor. Left stick up for about 2 seconds: it drives straight.
4. Right stick right: it turns clockwise. Mecanum only: left stick right strafes right.
5. Pull LT all the way while driving: the robot goes slower. (One driver, oneDriver = true: click the left stick for slow on and off.)
6. Press BACK on gamepad 1: the robot stops the moment the button goes down, and the Driver Station says PAUSED. Let go, then tap BACK again: it drives again.
7. Tap GUIDE: the button map shows. Tap GUIDE again to close it.

Pass rule

The robot drives straight within about 6 in of drift over 5 ft, turns the right way, LT slows it, and BACK stops it within 0.5 s of the press.

Record

Write these down while you test. The report form has them as a list to fill in.

• drive type and motors (for example "mecanum, 4 x goBILDA 312")
• how many wheels needed a direction fix, and which steps you used
• drift over 5 ft (inches, left or right)
• how fast BACK stopped the robot (about)

If your robot is different

Any drivetrain the library can drive is in scope: 2-motor or 4-motor tank, mecanum, a kit bot's drive. If your robot has a drivetrain the library does not offer (swerve, H-drive), report that as "could not run" and say what it is. If your driver uses other buttons (libraryButtons in Controls.java), use those and say which.

Report your result

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