When to invert?

Swerve Modules and Swerve Drives require some inversions to get working properly. The goal is to get everything to increase counter clockwise positive!

When your gears are grinding on the ground but not while on blocks and your wheels are facing and spinning in the right directions you may need to tune PID instead of inverting!

IF you are inverted incorrectly your modules or robot may spin "out-of-control"

Swerve Motors

When you spin your motor counterclockwise the value in Shuffleboard/NetworkTables Module[...] Raw Absolute Encoder and Module[...] Raw Angle Encoder should both increase.

How to open Shuffleboard

1. Open shuffleboard.

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1. Take note of the Module[...] Raw Absolute Encoder value's and use them for absoluteEncoderOffset in the module JSONs.

Spin your module counterclockwise

Spin your modules COUNTERclockwise from the top down view.

Purple shows the way your bevels should be facing (photo by Team 2876)

The swerve drive should be on it's side or otherwise lifted. Your swerve module bevels must be facing the left like shown. To rotate the swerve modules they must be rotated counterclockwise like shown.

If the Module[...] Raw Angle Encoder is decreasing...

Invert your angle motor for every module that is decreasing!

{
  "drive": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 2,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "angle": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 1,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "encoder": {
    "type": "cancoder",
    "id": 10,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "inverted": {
    "drive": false,
    "angle": true
  },
  "absoluteEncoderInverted": false,
  "absoluteEncoderOffset": -50.977,
  "location": {
    "front": 12,
    "left": -12
  }
}

If the Module[...] Raw Absolute Encoder is decreasing...

Invert the absolute encoder in the module JSON with absoluteEncoderInverted as shown here.

{
  "drive": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 2,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "angle": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 1,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "encoder": {
    "type": "cancoder",
    "id": 10,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "inverted": {
    "drive": false,
    "angle": false
  },
  "absoluteEncoderInverted": true,
  "absoluteEncoderOffset": -50.977,
  "location": {
    "front": 12,
    "left": -12
  }
}

Spin your wheel counterclockwise

Sometimes you may need to invert these if when you rotate the robot changes it's front/back while driving in field-oriented mode.

If the Module[...] Raw Drive Encoder is decreasing...

Invert your drive motor for every module that is decreasing!

{
  "drive": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 2,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "angle": {
    "type": "sparkmax",
    "id": 1,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "encoder": {
    "type": "cancoder",
    "id": 10,
    "canbus": null
  },
  "inverted": {
    "drive": true,
    "angle": false
  },
  "absoluteEncoderInverted": false,
  "absoluteEncoderOffset": -50.977,
  "location": {
    "front": 12,
    "left": -12
  }
}

Rotate your robot counterclockwise

Keep in mind that your robot spinning counter clockwise should look like this when the wheels are powered! You WILL need to change your IDs for each module file if they don't.

ID's relocated in swerve module files

You should notice the Raw IMU Yaw field in Shuffleboard increase. If it doesn't you need to invert your IMU like this.

{
  "imu": {
    "type": "pigeon2",
    "id": 13,
    "canbus": "canivore"
  },
  "invertedIMU": true,
  "modules": [
    "frontleft.json",
    "frontright.json",
    "backleft.json",
    "backright.json"
  ]
}