Worried about high CPU usage in CRIO

[Chris_Elston]

Alan - Appreciate your input on this matter. Thanks for confirming what we see as well. Our robot does the same thing, "unusable" because of watchdogs.

Ok, so we are unfamiliar with moving the vision code by off loading it to the dashboard, is there a white paper for newbies how to do this?

In response to your question about E09 and E11 comparison, other than the size of the unit in comparison to a normal laptop, that might be the best thing if performance of a little "netbook" PC compared to a "laptop" running your driver station would be the better selection if we do what you recommend and have seen as far as a performance boost. Using a normal laptop instead of a E09 or E11 at the driver station.

At first when I saw some other teams questions about:

1. Adding a laptop on your robot.
2. Adding a SECOND CRIO on your robot.

I was a little concerned with those kinds of questions teams are asking, but this may confirm why. I think we have tasked out the CRIO...I remember back in the IFI days...at least the CMU CAM was processing vision data on it's own and sending a serial string to the robot controller...maybe we need to look into a small PC too... http://smallpc.com/panelmounts.php (not under $400)

Or a low cost vision processor that can handle vision in a co-processor relationship to the CRIO like the CMU CAM days.