[Greg McKaskle]

You may write code for automatic tracking using any combination of cRIO, DS computer, or coprocessor. There are tradeoffs between different approaches.

I suspect you have a cRIO and a DS computer already. I suspect you do not yet have a coprocessor. If you get a coprocessor, you have to power it, mount it, boot it, and program it.

There are a number of ways to use the DS laptop, but you must also make it send data back to the robot.

The cRIO is perhaps the easiest to program, but is not a very fast CPU.

And there are many other tradeoffs you can use to evaluate which solution is for you.

Greg McKaskle