NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

[Steven Donow]

They announced this during opening ceremonies(apparently...I'm watching without sound and going by tweets I've seen).


The reveal will be streamed August 8th at ni.com/first

[engunneer]

During the Opening ceremonies of Championship, they announced that the specs for the 2015-2019 control system will be announced August 8th around 830 AM Central from the NI conference in Austin, TX.

I'm excited to hear that much of the code and knowledge will translate to the new system, and that it will be smaller and lighter than the cRio.

[orangemoore]

That is my Birthday!
I will be 15 on August 8th

[lynca]

It seems from this article that NI has won the RFP given that the controller will be used in 2015.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...bot-controller

[Joe Ross]

Here is the press release

http://m.prnewswire.com/news-release...204866181.html

[Foster]

And, Hsu, adds, it’s also “super rugged.” That’s because one thing NI learned watching the FIRST teams using its controller is that, as Hsu puts, “Kids will do anything to it.” The controller gets dropped onto the hard floor; tiny metal shavings get into its modules; some teams have even left it in the rain. Athena is designed to better handle this abuse.

Can't wait to see a swarf and water proof robot controller

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by Foster

Can't wait to see a swarf and water proof robot controller

Ah, but how will the students learn to think about actions without blowing up a Sidecar or two?

[MagiChau]

Originally Posted by engunneer

Ah, but how will the students learn to think about actions without blowing up a Sidecar or two?

They can still wire the speed controllers backwards

[MrRiedemanJACC]

Looks like we are keeping labview, but a different controller. At least that what it looks like from a mechanical guys standpoint....

http://www.ni.com/newsroom/release/n.../?sf12086786=1

[mman1506]

Hopefully it's smaller. The crio+sidecar combo take up more space than is necessary considering the size of the fpga part of the crio.

[F22Rapture]

Wonder if other non-LV languages will still be possible on the new controller

I'm sure C++ probably will be, Java I'm not so sure of.

[mman1506]

Originally Posted by F22Rapture

Wonder if other non-LV languages will still be possible on the new controller

I'm sure C++ probably will be, Java I'm not so sure of.

In one of the press releases they say it will be compatible with C++ and java

[crake]

Originally Posted by Foster

Can't wait to see a swarf and water proof robot controller

Looking for a water game perhaps?

[DonRotolo]

I can say for certain that the FRC community had a lot of input into the RFP. The conclusion is that it will be even more awesome than the C-Rio.

[coalhot]

My hunch is that the new controller will be a new product in the Rio line. It should be awesome, can't wait to see it!

I am somewhat sad that it's NI though. I would have liked to see a control system that is more non-labview friendly, and I would have liked to see what IFI (and other companies) would have come up with. Maybe it's still something that they will launch in the future as hobbyist tools...