As anyone reading this blog probably knows, the Arduino IDE simplifies a number of programming for an embedded environment and hides some of the required C \/ C++ material. This can make life a lot easier, but it can also cause problems, especially when you step out to do more complex things. I got bit by one of those earlier today. Since I eventually found a post to the work around, I thought I’d post it here.<\/p>\n
In my robot code, I”ve defined a struct called coord that holds two doubles, which are the x and y coordinates for whatever I need (e.g., the position of the robot, the next waypoint, etc.<\/p>\n
Today, I wanted to compute the distance from the ray defined by the previous and next waypoint and the current position of the vehicle, so that the error could be fed into a PID controller. I figured it would be easy to pass the parameters as coord types. BUT, this turns out to be trickier than it should be with the Arduino. Unless the structs are defined in a .h file, there are problems with their scope. A work-around is documented by Alexander Brevig on the Arduino Playground: Struct Resource for Arduino<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As anyone reading this blog probably knows, the Arduino IDE simplifies a number of programming for an embedded environment and hides some of the required C \/ C++ material. This can make life a lot easier, but it can also … Continue reading