FRC Notes

Setup

• 2020 WPILib Overview
• Aliases for setting JDK from the CLI
• Color Sensor

Background

• Debugging Robot Code
• PID Explanation
• 2019 WPILib Description
• 2019 Adding Commands and Subsystems

Definitions

Subsystems

Subsystems are the basic unit of robot organization in the design-based paradigm. Subsystems encapsulate lower-level robot hardware (such as motor controllers, sensors, and/or pneumatic actuators), and define the interfaces through which that hardware can be accessed by the rest of the robot code. Subsystems allow users to “hide” the internal complexity of their actual hardware from the rest of their code - this both simplifies the rest of the robot code, and allows changes to the internal details of a subsystem without also changing the rest of the robot code.

Commands

Commands define high-level robot actions or behaviors that utilize the methods defined by the subsystems. A command is a simple state machine that is either initializing, executing, ending, or idle. Users write code specifying which action should be taken in each state. Simple commands can be composed into “command groups” to accomplish more-complicated tasks.