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Re: A few questions about the control system...

Presuming that the rules for co-processing remain consistent with recent years:

The control signals to every motion device, whether a motor, pneumatic cylinder, solenoid, servo, or otherwise, is required by the rules to come from the 'RIO. (For 2016, most particularly R68 through R71). This is done quite carefully, in the name of safety (particularly, FIRST wants all motion to shut down when the field crew disables a robot).

In order to legally make the change you're describing, you would have to have a model in which your external (android) device would send high level/abstract commands to the roboRIO so that the roboRIO could do the low level control.
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