ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Just in time for the FIRST FRC 2017 "Steamworks" season, Kauai Labs announces the following exciting upgrades and new products - designed to help teams Build Better Robots®.

All software items below will be available for download on January 7, 2017.



Classic. Must-have. Featured on Championship Robots.

navX-MXP is a mature, must-have navigation sensor for a FRC RoboRIO-based robot control system. Over a thousand FRC teams have purchased navX-MXP to enhance drive-train navigation, including several teams competing in the FRC 2016 World Championship Finals.

navX-MXP 3.0 - a free software upgrade to existing navX-MXP customers - includes these new features:

• 200 Hz Update Rate

• Full RoboRIO support for USB, in addition to SPI, I2C and TTL UART

• Redesigned LabVIEW Library - now even easier to use

• New Linux library - great for integrating navX-MXP into a separate vision co-processor

• Libraries for integrating nav-MXP into Android-based FIRST FTC Robots

Reduced size and cost. Great as a second IMU. Sold out on day one of FIRST Choice 2017.

navX-Micro is a new, smaller, lower-cost IMU, great for FRC and FTC teams with limited budgets.

navX-Micro also works great as a second IMU for measuring orientation of robot arms and other moving devices.

navX-Micro is software-compatible with navX-MXP and works with all RoboRIO libraries, which now include support for multiple simultaneous navX-MXP & navX-Micro devices.




New for 2017.

SF2 is a free, open-source software framework making navX-MXP and navX-Micro even more powerful - fusing multiple sensors together to help you build even better robots.

Available in LabVIEW, C++ and Java for the RoboRIO, the initial SF2 release enables Video Processing Latency Correction on FRC robots.

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

This is the announcement I've been waiting for.

Thanks Scott!

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

This is amazing! Can't wait to try out the Vision Latency library!

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Some cool stuff! :D

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Are there any differences in accuracy between the NavX MXP and the micro? Does the micro support omnimount like the MXP?

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

navX-MXP and navX-Micro are identical with respect to accuracy - the same Invensense MPU-9250 is on both, and the firmware that performs automatic calibration and other cool features like Omnimount is also the same.

The only significant difference between navX-MXP and navX-Micro is that navX-MXP adds (a) SPI and TTL UART interfaces, (b) IO Expansion and (c) MXP connector.

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

The 2017 navX-MXP and navX-Micro upgrades are now available.

If your navX-MXP is at a firmware version lower than 3.0.289, you are encouraged to update your firmware as well.

The 2017 Sensor Fusion Framework (SF2) library is also now available.

Unleash the hounds!

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

The Labview information is difficult to find, http://www.pdocs.kauailabs.com/navx-mxp/labview-ae/

has nothing on it.

and if you go to the navx-micro for the examples, it takes you to github and shows you the c++ examples instead of Labview.

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Thanks for the head's up; the path to the labview AE URL is fixed.

As far as the navX-Micro examples, you likely found yourself to the FTC examples; there are separate FRC examples linked to as well on the navX-Micro Examples page.

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

I am getting a navXFirmware error "unable to load DLL 'STDFUFiles.DLL' on 2 different laptops with the firmware downloaded on each laptop (not copied from USB). Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance,

Mr. B

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Is there any plan to port SF2 to Python? If there are not any official plans, I'll probably try in my free time (hah!)

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Please take a look at this post from a year ago, it might provide some ideas. A few others encountered similar troubles and found workarounds.

https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=143307

What you are encountering is an issue that appears on a small percentage of Windows computers.

As background, STDFUFiles.DLL is a user-mode driver from ST Microelectronics which provides USB-based access to the STM32 micro-controller firmware loader. This is used by the navXFirmwareUpdater. The navX-MXP/Micro setup programs install STDUFiles.DLL (using an installer from ST Microelectronics). There are two points:

- Certain operating system privileges are required to install this.
- STDUFiles.DLL is dependent upon some other DLLs, and it's possible they're either not getting installed, or conflict with other DLLs already on your machine.

So in addition to reviewing this post, I'd encourage you to run the navX-MXP/navX-Micro setup program as an administrator.

If that doesn't work, please send details about the configuration of your two computers (operating system version, 32 vs 64 bit, what are the privileges of the account you are using when installing, and anything else you might think is helpful).

If all else fails, we'll can replace your board with one that has the latest firmware (support@kauailabs.com), but let's see if we can resolve it using the above means first.

Aloha,

- scott

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

We don't have this in the plans right now (we're focused on developing other very cool SF2 features). However, you might contact Dustin Spicuzza, he's done some amazing work to port the navX-MXP libraries to Python. And I'd be happy to provide support if you should choose to attempt this yourself.

Aloha,

- scott

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Are there any FRC Java examples for turning to or driving on a heading with a tank drive like there are for FTC? The FRC examples all seem to be for a mecanum drive. Thanks!

Re: ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2
 

Hi, after installing the latest navx_mxp jar file we are getting the following errors during deploy. We followed the Java coding steps from the Kauai Labs website. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

[javac] RobotMap.java:3: error: package com.kauailabs.navx.frc does not exist
[javac] import com.kauailabs.navx.frc.AHRS;
[javac] ^
[javac] RobotMap.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] AHRS x = new AHRS(SerialPort.Port.kMXP);
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class AHRS
[javac] location: class RobotMap
[javac] RobotMap.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] AHRS x = new AHRS(SerialPort.Port.kMXP);
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class AHRS
[javac] location: class RobotMap
[javac] 3 errors