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Re: Demystifying autonomous...

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
You are correct that the camera is handled completely separately from the dashboard data.

The default LabVIEW framework code updates the high priority dashboard data in Robot Main (50hz). The Low Priority dashboard data is updated at 2hz (IIRC). For an example of the high priority data updating fast, look at the camera tracking information in the lower right corner of the dashboard.
Actually, that is only the tracking data for the camera. The actual images are sent independently in a (UDP I believe) stream that is started when the camera is first called in code. The dashboard packers have nothing to do with this stream
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