Touch Screen with the Driver Station?

[Lewis Nerone]

Hey CD!

I was having a discussion with some of my teammates during lunch today about some things that we would do different next year. During this talk, we thought about touch screen support, especially on the driver station dashboard.

For example, A driver station with a touch screen laptop/slate (say a Lenovo Flex 14) was used for a driver station. During the Teleop Phase, a driver could use controls on the touch screen dashboard like radial dials, sliders, etc, to control the robot. These controls would most likely be for speed. For a game like Aerial Assist, the driver could control shooter angle or shooter power.

My team primarily uses NI LabView, so something like this would be easy to implement for next year. Programmers would build a touch-friendly dashboard for controls. What are your thoughts? Do you think this would be useful for controls?