NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by JamesTerm

Which platform/language are you using?
If it is c++, Do you use the PID functionality included in the WPI Libraries?

We use LabVIEW exclusively, and use Velocity PID loops that we wrote. We were using the 2011 banner light sensor with reflective tape on half the wheel just like Jared's implementation on 341 Miss Daisy.

The PID is not what eats the CPU. The timed loop in LabVIEW actually forces the loop to a certain timing, rather than just waiting or sleeping it. To simplify it somewhat, if you set a timed loop to 5ms, all the other tasks will take a back seat to that single loop running every 5ms. It really hurts CPU.

I don't know if c++ has an equivalent.