[marccenter]

Dear Rustree,
I had field communication issues using the KOP 09 laptop as the field driver station and having some Dashboard parameters that were not critical for field operation. I eliminated as many dashboard parameters as possible and set up a newer laptop as the driver station and my intermittent (slow response) robot operation on the playing field ceased.

There is a FRC driver station Log viewer that provides valuable information for your operation that is already on your laptop as part of the Labview installation package (with FRC updates). I recommend that you find it and take a look at your CPU utilization rate and trip time latency. When I had "issues" the values were about 10 msec average and spikes above this when we were having "field issues". After the above software modifications were made (new software, new laptop) the field communication issues went away (slow robot operation) and the trip latency was consistently 4 or 5 msec.

Hope this helps,