FRC 2012 Beta (Team 1718's First Observations)

[apalrd]

FYI, the data (except CPU load) - Packet time, packet loss, and robot voltage have all been available on the FMS end for a while (there's a screen dedicated to these three numbers for the 6 robots on the field, it usually runs on its own monitor on the field). The FTA should be able to see if you had an issue in a match due to battery voltage or packet loss.

This was very helpful this year when we were having minibot issues, which we eventually tied to battery voltage.

That said, I'm happy to be able to see it from this end.

[Pi Fighter]

NOTE: This is also posted at http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?p=52798.

After toying around with Kinect and the Driver Station, I do have some screenshots of the new Driver Station and cRIO Imaging Tool. One big observation with the Dashboard is that it now has a Kinect Skeleton tab, along with the normal camera tab. In the Kinect Skeleton tab, you are seeing the movement that the Kinect is picking up. However, I've noticed that it takes around 22 seconds to update the position of the skeleton (a.k.a. the player). This could be because of my computer (AMD E-350 Processor 1.6 GHz, 3GB RAM), though. I also noticed that my CPU% was in the 60's while I was doing these tests, yet the CPU% graph on the Driver Station never updated.

*I cannot post the Driver Station pictures (10KB too much), but they are available at http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?p=52798.

[linuxboy]

Originally Posted by apalrd

FYI, the data (except CPU load) - Packet time, packet loss, and robot voltage have all been available on the FMS end for a while (there's a screen dedicated to these three numbers for the 6 robots on the field, it usually runs on its own monitor on the field). The FTA should be able to see if you had an issue in a match due to battery voltage or packet loss.

This was very helpful this year when we were having minibot issues, which we eventually tied to battery voltage.

That said, I'm happy to be able to see it from this end.

The other nice thing about this is having a graph means being able to see history of voltage and trip time, something the Field Monitor can't do (or at least couldn't this year), and since the FTA tends to be busy during matches they may not notice everything that happens to a particular robot.

[~Cory~]

That is a sexy firmware updater. Do you have to reload the entire system when changing the switches?

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by ~Cory~

That is a sexy firmware updater. Do you have to reload the entire system when changing the switches?

No