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Re: Second cRIO as COTS computing device?
Another way to do this is to do the vision processing on the dashboard. For a similar price as the cRIO, you can get a much faster laptop to run the driver station/dashboard. This is what we plan to do (LabVIEW dashboard doing vision processing, Java robot). Last year we did a LabVIEW dashboard doing vision processing with a LabVIEW robot.
The 8 slot cRIO doesn't meet the $400 cost limit, but the 4 slot cRIO does.
You would not be able to use the 24 volt supply on the PDB (See <R43>), so you would need to design another 24 volt power supply (or a boosted 12 volt power supply since you'd be using a 4 slot cRIO).
<R55> specifies that one cRIO (only) must be used for controlling the robot, but I don't think it precludes a second cRIO as a coprocessor in the method you describe.
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