View Single Post
  #27   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 23-04-2011, 21:51
Johnny_5's Avatar
Johnny_5 Johnny_5 is offline
Whose cooking motor?
AKA: Isaac
FRC #3484 (Short Circuit)
Team Role: College Student
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Rookie Year: 2010
Location: Marysville Ohio
Posts: 150
Johnny_5 has a spectacular aura aboutJohnny_5 has a spectacular aura about
Re: Field Electronics

Joek-

In some sense that is actually what the field is. The break down is that all of the E-stop interface's are simply IO's along with the minibot poles. The DS's communicate with the robot cRio's just like we do back at home when we connect labview to the robot with wireless, the field in no way communicates with the cRio.

The biggest thing present in scoring for Logomotion is the 4 Panelview Plus terminals around the corners of the field. There, a human judge stands and inputs all of the inflatables hung by the robots. This is done because there is no (economical and reliable) sensor to discern the different shapes or colors of the inflatable.

So in a sense, the field is just like one big robot