Robonova has a mind of it's own!

[doddsiedodds]

My robonova appears to have a mind of it's own, it keeps replaying old programs I have downloaded or breaking out into twitches - restarting programs or running loops endlessly. I think it may be a problem with using both the flash and the regular storage on the Robonova without realising since the 2.7 update. This even happens after clearing the memory. Anyone else had similar problems?

[i-Bot]

Are you using GOTO AUTO ?

How big is your program ?

If you can put an example of code which fails into your file area, I will take a look.

[doddsiedodds]

strangely the uploader won't let be upload a .bas or .txt... The Program is not very big at all and i don't use GOTO AUTO. The problem seems to happen with all the code I upload to it but I'll paste the latest one that does it here:

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'Initialise Robot'
GETMOTORSET G24, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0 'Setting motor direction
SPEED 12 'Setting motor speed
MOTOR G24
PTP 1

'PLAY SOUND TO show the robot has initialised
TEMPO 230
MUSIC "CDE"

'Declaration of balancing variables
DIM x AS INTEGER   'Setting x input from accelerometer to integer type
DIM y AS INTEGER   'Setting y input from accelerometer to integer type
DIM tip AS INTEGER   'Setting tilt input from tilt sensor to integer type
DIM tol AS INTEGER
DIM oldx AS INTEGER
DIM oldy AS INTEGER
DIM difx AS INTEGER
DIM dify AS INTEGER

x = AD(0)         'Setting x input from A/D port 0
y = AD(1)         'Setting y input from A/D port 1
tip = AD(2)         'Setting tip input from A/D port 2
tol = 20
oldx = 0
oldy = 0

GOTO standing

main:
GOTO art
GOTO main


standing:
'Zero Legs
MOVE G6A, 100,  75, 130, 110, 100, 100
MOVE G6D, 100,  75, 130, 110, 100, 100
'Zero Arms
MOVE G6B,100,  20,  90, 100, 100, 100
MOVE G6C,100,  20,  90, 100, 100, 100
WAIT
RETURN

art:
x = AD(0)
IF x > oldx THEN difx = x-oldx
IF x < oldx THEN difx = oldx-x
IF x = oldx THEN difx = 0
IF difx < tol THEN RETURN
IF x<550 THEN MOVE G6B,,100
IF x<550>550 THEN MOVE G6C,,100
IF x>550 THEN MOVE G6B,,20
oldx = x
RETURN

END

[doddsiedodds]

Oh, i just did a search for "GOTO AUTO" and saw your explanations of why it's there! It seems odd how the "clear memory" command in robobasic doesn't actually erase all the code off Robonova? I shall place this at the beginning of the code and try again!

[i-Bot]

No you are better without GOTO AUTO.

Should the "GOTO art" and "GOTO standing" be GOSUB ?

Some files will only upload if zipped.

Will take a look.

[doddsiedodds]

Oh yeah sorry, they should be GOSUB, I changed them and hadn't downloaded to the robot since (Late night mistake...) Maybe i should use the FILL command to clear out some of the memory?

[i-Bot]

Avoid FILL too, just slows things down and confuses things.

Is it still not working with GOSUB ?

[doddsiedodds]

Nope, it plays older code after looping through a few times or will re run the same code but get caught and just start twitching... It's very very odd.

[i-Bot]

Need to charge my battery to test.

What checksum do you get in controller Information ?

[doddsiedodds]

Not sure, will have to check that when I get home! Could the controller be bust?

[i-Bot]

Just thought the firmware upgrade from 2.5 to 2.72 may have corrupted. Can be fixed.

[doddsiedodds]

FDA2 is the checksum i have

[i-Bot]

FDA2 is the correct flash checksum for version 2.7.

Are you sure you are not having brownouts on the power ? Is your battery and power supply working OK ? Are you driving other devices from the C3024 5V rail ?

I loaded your file and have no twitches or odd behaviour. Not using the analog inputs though.

[doddsiedodds]

Used the fill command on both the flash and regular controller board set options and it seems to have cleared things up. I think my code was just super short compared to old things and it was getting all tangled! Thanks for all your help though, I didn't have a clue where to begin problem solving!