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Sangoma

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Severe error in abs() function

Can anybody help with this 'Severe' error:


	Quote: *Severe:Intrinsic proc 'absS' memory [0/0] is not uninitialized value (-1) Pass/Seq: ''Assign Addresses':55.

The calling line is:


	Code: while(abs(nMotorEncoder[driveMotor]) < rotation);

rotation is defined as 'int'

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Sangoma

Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:51 pm

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Can you post all of your code? I'm not sure how you are getting that error and doing so would help me debug your code.

I have tried making a sample "abs test" program to see if there could possibly be a problem. However, I was unable to reproduce an error (using v1.02 of ROBOTC for Mindstorms from the Download section). Here is the code:

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	Code: task main() { nMotorEncoder[motorC] = 0; nMotorEncoder[motorB] = 0; while(abs(nMotorEncoder[leftMotor]) < 1000) { motor[motorB] = -100; motor[motorC] = -100; } motor[motorC] = 0; motor[motorB] = 0; }

If you are using this code, YOU MUST set up motor C to be an "NXT Motor with Speed CTRL

Please let me know if you are still having problems. Thanks.
Vu

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Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:35 pm

Sangoma

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Thanks, Vu.

It seems this is hard to repeat! The code below exhibits the problem, but if you remove the steerTo() function it goes away.

Here is a scaled down version:


	Code: const tMotor sweepMotor = (tMotor) motorA; //tmotorNxtEncoderClosedLoop //!!!!// const tMotor steeringMotor = (tMotor) motorB; //tmotorNxtEncoderClosedLoop //!!!!// const tMotor driveMotor = (tMotor) motorC; //tmotorNxtEncoderClosedLoop //!!!!// //!!CLICK to edit 'wizard' created sensor & motor configuration. !!// int hardLeft = 45; void steerTo(int angle) { nMotorEncoderTarget[steeringMotor] = abs(angle); if (angle > 0) motor[steeringMotor] = 50; else motor[steeringMotor] = -50; } void park() { int rotation; steerTo(hardLeft); rotation = 360; nMotorEncoder[driveMotor] = 0; nMotorEncoderTarget[driveMotor] = rotation; motor[driveMotor] = -100; while(abs(nMotorEncoder[driveMotor]) < rotation); } task main() { park(); }

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Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:01 pm

HoTWiReZ

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This may not be related, but I had similar problems with my functions that used the nSynchedMotors variables, etc. I eventually changed that back to none at the end of all of my functions that used this and the problems disappeared. Hope this helps.

Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:45 pm

Sangoma

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Another thing to add is that the code compiles and downloads (and even appears to work) without issue, except for those warnings. I suspect that something confuses the compiler.

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Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:26 pm

HoTWiReZ

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Yep, mine had the same problem.. I had a function that was supposed to make the robot move left if it had a positive input and right if it was a negative value, and it always crashed when the robot turned right.


	Code: void turn(int angle, int& CurrentAngle) { wait1Msec(100); float radius = 8; float arcLength = 0; int mov = 0; float wheelCirc = 18; bFloatDuringInactiveMotorPWM = false; nPidUpdateInterval = 5; nMotorEncoder[motorB]=0; nMotorEncoderTarget[motorB]=0; if (angle > 0) { arcLength = radius(degreesToRadians(angle)); mov=(arcLength/wheelCirc)360; nSyncedMotors = synchBC; nMotorEncoderTarget[motorB] = mov; nSyncedTurnRatio = -100; motor[motorB] = 70; while (nMotorRunState[motorB] != runStateIdle) { EndTimeSlice(); } wait1Msec(1); // brieft delay nSyncedMotors=synchNone; } else if (angle < 0) { arcLength = radius(degreesToRadians(angle(-1))); mov=(arcLength/wheelCirc)360; nSyncedMotors = synchBC; nMotorEncoderTarget[motorB] = (mov(-1)); nSyncedTurnRatio = -100; motor[motorB] = -70; while (nMotorRunState[motorB] != runStateIdle) // wait for action to complete { EndTimeSlice(); } wait1Msec(1); nSyncedMotors=synchNone; } CurrentAngle += angle; }

This code is the function I'm talking about, and with the addition of the line, "nSyncedMotors=synchNone;" it works great every run, with the single exception that it doesn't turn exactly the same amount left versus right for some reason, but I'll try to figure that out some other time..

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Ok, I must have missed that you posted your entire program earlier... Sorry. I think that does look like a bug, since abs() does take a short int, and it looks like the nMotorEncoder[] returns a short int... Anyhow, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you just set the nMotorEncoderTarget, won't the motor stop after it reaches the target anyhow? You could use something like while(nMotorRunState[] != runStateIdle) there right? Just a suggestion, but these NXT's are pretty quirky with this code still.. Sorry again for not looking at your code before posting earlier. Your problem is nothing like I thought at first.

Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:40 pm

Sangoma

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Thanks for the input. And I'll check on the use of nMotorEncoderTarget!

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