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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
The DAQ lets you collect real-time sensor data to a laptop computer running the labview software. It doesn't actually imply anything about this year's controllers.
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That is most definitely one use for it, but we're constantly developing and refining more uses as we go along. We're trying to introduce a robot simulation package this year that allows you to use LabVIEW, a USB-DAQ, and the dashboard port to bench test robot controller code before your robot has been completed by your build team. The DAQ and Dashboard combo allows you to programmatically determine what the controller is doing - couple this with a model of your robot in LabVIEW and use the DAQ to simulate sensor data to the controller, and you can have a "virtual robot" that you can use to test your robot code with. Of course, the simulation package does not allow for high-rate simulations and calculations; we're still working on that. However, relatively simple robot designs can be modeled and tested fairly easily with this new software.
I don't have any super-secret inside knowledge about this year's controllers, but I'm not expecting any radical changes this year...
-Danny