Can anyone tell me why motors A and B won't synch? I can't seem to figure it out. I don't get any errors while running the program, but immediately when I turn it off it gives me an error that says it failed to update the slave...



#pragma config(Motor, motorA, , tmotorNormal, PIDControl)
#pragma config(Motor, motorB, , tmotorNormal, PIDControl)
#pragma config(Motor, mtr_S1_C1_1, motorD, tmotorNormal, openLoop)
#pragma config(Motor, mtr_S1_C1_2, motorE, tmotorNormal, openLoop)
//*!!Code automatically generated by 'ROBOTC' configuration wizard !!*//

#include "JoystickDriver.c"

task main()
{
while (true)
{
getJoystickSettings(joystick);
if (joystick.joy1_y1 > 5 || joystick.joy1_y1 < -5)
motor[motorD] = -joystick.joy1_y1;
else
motor[motorD] = 0;
if (joystick.joy1_y2 > 5 || joystick.joy1_y2 < -5)
motor[motorE] = joystick.joy1_y2;
else
motor[motorE] = 0;

nPidUpdateIntervalNxt = 10;
nMotorPIDSpeedCtrl[motorA] = mtrEncoderReg;
nMotorPIDSpeedCtrl[motorB] = mtrEncoderReg;
nSyncedMotors = synchAB;
nSyncedTurnRatio = 100;
if (joy1Btn(2))
{
motor[motorA] = 80;
}
else
if (joy1Btn(3))
{
motor[motorA] = -80;
}
else
{
motor[motorA] = 0;
}
}
}[/color]

Few Issues here...

1. You're missing the top line of your code. You need to define where your FTC hardware is connected on the NXT. You can generate this line by going into Motors and Sensor Setup. This is what's generating the error message when you run your code.


2. I tried the syncing out... it seems to be working by turning on both motors... but the "sync" part of it doesn't seem to be there. I'll have to investigate this a little more

Edited Code:

I cannot find anything wrong with the firmware. There is a bug in your program though.

The code to setup motor synchronization should be moved outside of the loop. Whenever synchronization is setup it "resets" the synchronization state and starts over. You're running through the loop 100s (1000s?) of times a second and each time through the synchronization it looses the "history" needed to keep the motors in sync. Once I moved this outside the loop, everything works fine.

For example, manually hold motor C and you'll notice motor A will slow down to keep speed with A.

Here's the revised program.