Custom Movement Panel V2

How to use the Custom Movement Panel V2 robot skill

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An advanced custom movement v2 panel with more features than the regular panel for drones, mecanum wheels, and custom drive controllers. This extends the standard custom Movement Panel by including roll left, roll right, up, and down.

You should read about a Movement Panel to better understand how to implement your custom code. The Movement Panel description document contains valuable information about how ARC integrates movement panels and how each movement direction should be interpreted.

This Movement Panel has scripts for various directions and speeds. The speed can be obtained by the scripting commands in the Movement class, which your code can reference if needed. There is a convenient mapping function that allows you to map the Movement Panel speed (0 to 255) to PWM (0 to 100), for example.

The configuration window contains scripts for each direction that this robot skill supports: Forward, Right, Reverse, Left, Roll Left, Roll Right, up, and down. Each script is executed when its direction is specified through the ARC platform.

Examples

Front Wheel Steering

This is an example of a front wheel steering Forward script. In this example, you can see how the left and right speeds are used to adjust the servo that controls the front wheels. The front wheels steer, similar to a car. The full implementation of this can be found here: https://synthiam.com/Support/Advanced-Fundamentals/Robot-with-Wheel-Steering

// Set the motor direction to forward
Digital.set(d0, true); // Enable forward direction on motor
Digital.set(d1, false); // Disable reverse direction on motor

// Calculate the speed for the PWM
var topSpeed = Math.max(Movement.getSpeedLeft(), Movement.getSpeedRight());
var speed = Utility.map(topSpeed, 0, 255, 0, 100);
PWM.set(d2, speed);

// Calculate the speed difference
var diffSpeed = Movement.getSpeedLeft() - Movement.getSpeedRight();
var steeringAngle = Utility.map(diffSpeed, -255, 255, 1, 180);
Servo.setPosition(d3, steeringAngle);