Labview autonomous programming via excel/csv file examples
 

Dear CD,

I am presently using 4 difference autonomous programs that could be easily made into one program if I was able to use some kind of input file that would change motor power levels and pneumatic solenoid on/off enabling as a function of time. I think some kind of excel/csv file with 0.1 second intervals of time as rows and columns containing the motor 1-6 values and 2 pneumatics solenoids as on/off are what I need. I am sure that this has been done by others and would appreciate any links to such material.

Best regards,

Re: Labview autonomous programming via excel/csv file examples
 

The default auto has some commented code that executes across an array of motor values, times to delay, etc. The file I/O palette contains many options for reading the file. The second icon is a bit confusing because of how general it is, but it defaults to return either a 1D or 2D array of doubles from a tab delimited file.

Then next step is to get the file on the roboRIO.

A variation of this is to load the file on the DS laptop using a custom dashboard, and push the values to the robot using some network table variables such as arrays of doubles.

Greg McKaskle

Re: Labview autonomous programming via excel/csv file examples
 

Greg,

Thanks for the information. I did some searching and found a paper by Chris Hibner that appears to be the direction I want to move in for the short term.

I will let you know how that goes as team 3548 gets ready to go to the Michigan State Champtionship in Grand Rapids, MI this year!

Best regards!