Programming swerve drive in Labview?

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Originally Posted by Ether

I think the tacit premise of the question is misguided.

The difficulty¹ of developing software for swerve is an algorithmic issue, not a coding issue.

LabVIEW, C++, Java, Python - they're all more than powerful and concise enough to express the necessary algorithms efficiently, once you've figured out the algorithms.


¹the inverse kinematics is not the difficult part.

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I don't have any first hand experience with LabVIEW, so I'm stuck with what I can distill from others at this time (my plan for the off season is to correct this). I am an old school programmer, so I tend to be skeptical of the graphical nature of LabVIEW. Some other mentors I have talked to didn't like LabVIEW (for whatever reason. I know it's a philosophical question much like Windows vs. Linux, editor wars, even religion).

I just wanted to get opinions of whether attempting to use LabVIEW (which our team uses) to develop a swerve drive system would be a reasonable endeavor. Which you answered for me.

Thanks,
Kenton