NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

They announced this during opening ceremonies(apparently...I'm watching without sound and going by tweets I've seen).


The reveal will be streamed August 8th at ni.com/first

2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

During the Opening ceremonies of Championship, they announced that the specs for the 2015-2019 control system will be announced August 8th around 830 AM Central from the NI conference in Austin, TX.

I'm excited to hear that much of the code and knowledge will translate to the new system, and that it will be smaller and lighter than the cRio.

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

That is my Birthday!
I will be 15 on August 8th
;)

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

It seems from this article that NI has won the RFP given that the controller will be used in 2015.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...bot-controller

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

Here is the press release

http://m.prnewswire.com/news-release...204866181.html

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

Can't wait to see a swarf and water proof robot controller :rolleyes:

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

Ah, but how will the students learn to think about actions without blowing up a Sidecar or two?

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

They can still wire the speed controllers backwards ::ouch::

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

Looks like we are keeping labview, but a different controller. At least that what it looks like from a mechanical guys standpoint....

http://www.ni.com/newsroom/release/n.../?sf12086786=1

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

Hopefully it's smaller. The crio+sidecar combo take up more space than is necessary considering the size of the fpga part of the crio.

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

Wonder if other non-LV languages will still be possible on the new controller

I'm sure C++ probably will be, Java I'm not so sure of.

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

In one of the press releases they say it will be compatible with C++ and java

Re: 2015+ Control System Specs to be announced
 

Looking for a water game perhaps?

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

I can say for certain that the FRC community had a lot of input into the RFP. The conclusion is that it will be even more awesome than the C-Rio.

Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
 

My hunch is that the new controller will be a new product in the Rio line. It should be awesome, can't wait to see it!

I am somewhat sad that it's NI though. I would have liked to see a control system that is more non-labview friendly, and I would have liked to see what IFI (and other companies) would have come up with. Maybe it's still something that they will launch in the future as hobbyist tools...