For Autodesk projects, join the Autodesk education community at :
www.autodesk.com/first
there you can register and download products such as Inventor for free.
If you wanted to do Java on the robot, you can get a head start:
Download this guide;
http://www.kellrobotics.org/files/In...ns_For_FRC.pdf
and this package
http://www.kellrobotics.org/files/ne...se-windows.exe
Visit
www.usfirst.org/frc/kitofparts to get more information on the control system