Presenter: James Kuszmaul (1868) Key Takeaway: How to approach thinking about & implementing controls on their robots. In the modern FRC technology ecosystem, there are a wide variety of tools to make your robot do what you want, from manually-driven voltage commands to sophisticated swerve control libraries and localization. This presentation will attempt to draw the connections between the tools that exist and the underlying control theory that drive why and how teams choose to use those tools, with an additional emphasis on the software design principles and tools that allow for effective robot integration.

About the Presenter:

James Kuszmaul is an FRC Team 1868 software mentor, Control System Advisor at local events, and former 971 software mentor. Professionally, he works on agricultural automation for John Deere at Blue River Technology, making it so that herbicide sprayers can detect and spray weeds at speed.