[Greg McKaskle]

The ODE in the dialog refers to ode.org. It uses the robot model information in the project and the forces that motors, gravity, and the like would exert on the elements in the simulator and computes how the elements would respond.

Other uses for it are as a physics game engine. If you were making a driving game and wanted to determine how fast the car would travel, how it would react when braking, when going up a hill, etc.

ODE is not used unless you are simulating. It isn't even loaded on the cRIO.

Greg McKaskle