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Re: Programming with the 2009 controller

Making procedural steps may be against the flow of labview, but that's exactly what many folks will need to do to program autonomous.

To program teleop, you don't need it - but I would guess that 90%+ of the good auton's out there use a state machine or a sequence of some sort. Go to location 1, check situation, go to location 2, and so on.

Conceptually, perhaps one of the NI reps can answer this question. Hopefully it isn't in the NDA since it's pretty general. Will we have a general "loop" setup like the current controller where specific loops are run at a specific and documented rate, or will we have to use timers of our own to control the update rates of variables that need calculation (like distance error, etc).