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Re: Programming swerve drive in Labview?
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Originally Posted by autox_vette View Post
In the off season, our team is working on developing a swerve drive.

I have heard arguments (each way) concerning the fitness of Labview as a programming language for our robots (and don't want to spark a heated debate here).

Has anyone programmed a fully functional (i.e. simultaneous translate and rotate) swerve drive using Labview? If so, given the option, would you do so again?

Thanks,
Kenton
I think the tacit premise of the question is misguided.

The difficulty1 of developing software for swerve is an algorithmic issue, not a coding issue.

LabVIEW, C++, Java, Python - they're all more than powerful and concise enough to express the necessary algorithms efficiently, once you've figured out the algorithms.


1the inverse kinematics is not the difficult part.