Choate Robotics Programming Standard Operating Procedures

These are the Standard Operating Procedures for the Choate Robotics Programming Team. It is a living document and is constantly being updated.

Hint

No idea where to go from here? Check out Introduction.

• Home
• Introduction

Getting Started:

• Install
  • Software
  • IDE
    • What is an IDE?
    • VSCode
    • PyCharm
    • Vim
  • Git and Github
    • How to Install Git
  • Other Software
• Setup
  • We’ve got the software… now what?
    • No setup required
• Creating a Project
• grab an existing project

Writing and Deploying Code:

• File Structure
  • Core Folders
    • Subsystems
    • Sensors
    • Commands
    • Subsystem, Sensor, Command flow
  • Complementary Files and Folders
    • utils
    • constants.py
    • config.py
    • Updated flow
• Testing Code
• Deploying Code
• Documentation
  • RobotPy and WPILib
  • robotpy-toolkit-7407
  • CTRE and REVRobotics
  • Limelight

Getting to Know:

• Driver station
  • Setup
  • Downloading and Installing the Software
  • Software Setup:
• Git and Github
  • What is it?
  • How does our team use it?
  • How do I use it?
• Poetry
  • What is it?
  • Why use it?
  • Poetry vs Pip and Virtualenv
  • How to use it?
  • How to share your project with others?
  • How Choate Robotics uses Poetry:
• Hardware and Electronics
  • System Diagram
  • Core Components
  • Motor Controllers
  • Inputs
  • Vision Processors
• Networktables
  • Communicating from the RoboRIO:
• Toolkit
  • Installation
  • Usage

Motion Control Systems:

• PID
  • Why do we need PID control?
  • Use of PID in First Robotics
  • PID Control Theory
  • Creating PID Control for FIRST Robotics
  • Tuning the PID Controller
• Profiled PID

Advanced Topics:

• Swerve Drive
• Odometry