Smooth multi-part movements

[dsplaisted]

Hi,

We're using PyBricks for FLL, and it's working well. However, more complicated paths can consist of a bunch of different movements strung together. For each segment, the robot accelerates at the beginning and then decelerates to a stop at the end.

It seems like we could save time for the runs if we avoid these starts and stops.

Is there a good way to avoid this? I was thinking it would be nice if we could define the path segments up front and then the robot could run them all, transitioning from one to the next without stopping. This might somewhat reduce the accuracy of exactly following the path segments but if it's still pretty consistent from run to run that should be fine.

Thanks!

[dlech]

Have you tried then=Stop.NONE?

Documentation: https://docs.pybricks.com/en/stable/parameters/stop.html#pybricks.parameters.Stop.NONE

[dsplaisted]

Thanks, that helps. I think we had previously tried Stop.COAST, and it didn't seem to make much of a difference.