--- title: The angle problem description: A look at a slightly infuriating robotics problem date: 2022-04-11 tags: - frc draft: true extra: uses: - katex excerpt: In this post, I take a look at a mathematical problem commonly encountered with relative rotation offset calculation in robotics. aliases: - /blog/angle-problem --- In robotics, a common task is calculating the shortest arc between two rotational offsets. Such a task finds itself in turrets and other mechanisms requiring planar rotation.