Competition Switch

Read the switch positions of VEXnet Competition Switch or field controller

Add-On Required: This feature requires the Simulink Coder Support Package for VEX EDR V5 Robot Brain add-on.

Libraries:
Simulink Coder Support Package for VEX EDR V5 Robot Brain / Gamepad

Description

The Competition Switch block is used to read the switch positions of the VEXnet Competition Switch, and provide the corresponding logical values (1 or 0) as outputs. This block can be used to enable the required logic for the Pre-Autonomous, Autonomous and Driver Controlled modes, based on the switch position.

Examples

Autonomous Mode and Driver Mode with VEX EDR V5 Robot Brain

Use Simulink® Coder™ Support Package for VEX® EDR V5 Robot Brain to implement Pre-Autonomous, Autonomous, and Driver Controlled modes in the same Simulink model.

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Ports

Output

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Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Autonomous mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

The output is 1 if the position of the switches are set at Enabled and Autonomous in the VEXnet Competetion Switch.

When the Auto output port is 1 and the Driver output port is 0, the robot is in Autonomous mode.

Data Types: Boolean

Driver — Output port that provides logical value for Driver Controlled mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

The output is 1 if the position of the switches are set at Enabled and Driver in the VEXnet Competition Switch.

When the Auto output port is 0 and the Driver output port is 1, the robot is in Driver mode.

Data Types: Boolean

Pre-Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Pre-autonomous mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

The output is 1 if the position of the switch is set at Disabled in the VEXnet Competition Switch.

Data Types: Boolean

The following table lists the modes and the three outputs based on the switch position.

Enable/Disable Switch	Autonomous/Driver Switch	Mode	Pre-Auto	Auto	Driver
Disable	Autonomous	Pre-Autonomous	1	0	0
Enable	Autonomous	Autonomous	0	1	0
Enable	Driver	Driver Controlled	0	0	1
Disable	Driver	Disabled	0	0	0

Parameters

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Sample time — Sample time for obtaining the value
`0.02` (default) | seconds

Specify how often the Competition Switch block should read the position of switches in VEXnet Competition Switch. The default value is 0.02 seconds.

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

Competition Switch

Description

Examples

Autonomous Mode and Driver Mode with VEX EDR V5 Robot Brain

Ports

Output

Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Autonomous mode based on the position of the switch 1 or 0

Driver — Output port that provides logical value for Driver Controlled mode based on the position of the switch 1 or 0

Pre-Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Pre-autonomous mode based on the position of the switch 1 or 0

Parameters

Sample time — Sample time for obtaining the value 0.02 (default) | seconds

Version History

Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Autonomous mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

Driver — Output port that provides logical value for Driver Controlled mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

Pre-Auto — Output port that provides logical value for Pre-autonomous mode based on the position of the switch
`1` or `0`

Sample time — Sample time for obtaining the value
`0.02` (default) | seconds