What does controller mean?

The part of a program that decides what command to send from the difference between what was wanted and what was measured.

Also written as: controllers

In a lesson

Module 2 ended with the robot correcting its drift: look, compare, adjust. That loop has a name, a controller, and this module is about doing it properly. It starts with the one number every controller is built on: the error.

Learn it

• Taught in 3.1 What a controller is Control, Robot club

Used in

• F6.7 Project: the fail-safe controller
• F8.5 Negative numbers: two's complement
• 2.5 Drift and correction
• 2.6 Project: the maze
• 3.2 Proportional control
• 3.3 Tuning the gain
• 3.4 Controlling speed
• 3.5 Two loops at once
• 3.6 Project: precision parking
• 4.2 Where is it?

and 51 more lessons.

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