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Originally Posted by cbpetrovic
So, one thought that we (T166) had regarding the use of Arduino-based coprocessors is to use them to provide sensor input to the cRIO either via the I2C bus or via the RS-232 comm port. The intent is to offload the cRIO, have sensor inputs processed by the Arduino and made available to the cRIO upon request.
It's not driving any motors directly, will be obtaining power from the +5V PD.
Thoughts?
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The cRIO provides hardware decoding of many sensor signals while an Arduino will need to handle them with software (ex: counting encoder ticks with a counter vs servicing an interrupt to increment a variable). I'm not sure if the Arduino lends itself to improving your robot unless you are tied to the Arduino environment or want to do something that the cRIO FPGA image doesn't support.