Plotting Location w/ Accellerometer Project

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Originally Posted by Aaron.Graeve

I think the mini-map idea both has merit and is not overly CPU-intensive. I suppose it would be similar to teams that use line overlays in aligning their shooter. If you keep the total x and y components (or r and theta, whichever floats your boat) as variables stored on the robot, it should be a relatively easy task to use those values to add a point image overlay to a stock background map on the dashboard. The overlay would probably not be that taxing, provided you are careful with your implementation.

I just tried to write up a point overlay in the dashboard like you said using the IMAQ Point overlay vi, but I can't seem to get it to actually plot a few points on the image, do you have any examples?

Back in 2008, we did a demo of a robot called Nitro. It had three omni wheels and used the NI Motion planning SW to calculate trajectories. Anyway, for our demo we built a path builder and a path display using the picture control. You could also do this in an XY graph. Those are both pretty performant, especially the XY graph.

Do you have any sample code left?