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Re: LabView/C++ equally capable?

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Originally Posted by Ivan Helmrich View Post
Jared, good points. I had considered that it might be a matter of familiarity as you suggest but I would have expected at least some reported success with LabView.
Our team (604) used LabView this past year, and we were fairly successful at getting our turret to lock in on our target. We had a potentiometer on the turret, so the camera took a frame, figured out how many degrees right/left to turn, and we used the potentiometer to servo to the position.

We also can shoot in autonomous mode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXBMmEgfbI)

However, we do not have any comparison to how fast other robots' turrets center on their target, etc., so I don't know how "successful" we actually were, compared to others.

Here is another video of a test chassis tracking the target with LabView to compare with other teams' speeds. Note that it was only a couple hours of work, so the tuning could have been better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84hL57QUvg
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