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Re: Robots not under driver control- does it happen- do you determine why?

I noticed last year when we were using LabView that running the program from LabView and not as a start-up program significantly slowed down response and even caused some dropouts. I think this was just because the program was running on the ClassMate, so any time it slowed down (frequently!), the code slowed down. Also in LabView, the camera seemed to both be very slow and slow down the rest of the code, to the point of dropouts and even errors sometimes. This year we switched to Java and all those issues went away (mainly because the code is always a "start-up" program, it is run on the cRIO independent from the computer).
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