On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Michael Haberler <[email protected]> wrote:

> now if somebody went around and outlined an RTAPI patch to pass the actual 
> invocation time to RT threads as discussed in Wichita, we could go ahead and 
> timebase-correct some of the code which relies on the "assumed time equals 
> actual time" assumption, like motion and pid comps, then we likely could put 
> the latency discussion to rest for the the better part

Most digital control algorithms assume that the sample period is
constant.  The ramifications of using actual times instead of nominal
sampling times seem to be fairly significant.  I speculate that if you
are going to stick to PID it should be fairly easy to accommodate.

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