Presentation about the 2016 control system

[taichichuan]

Originally Posted by sraque

Glad you are working to educate teams in your area.

Some further edits or clarifications for those that are reading this:
- On slide 7 the UART being 5V is a warning. However, the UART (on MXP port) is the connection to use with Arduino, Pi, etc. The warning is for the 9V RS-232.
- There is a new radio required this coming year (OM5P-AN).
- On slide 24, it is said that you need to connect CAN if you want current-related data. It is required to connect CAN to the PDP period. This is how battery voltage shows up on the DS and I believe a robot will not pass inspection without it.
- New CTRE magnetic encoder was part of the beta program. It plugs directly into the Talon SRX and can be used for both relative and absolute positioning simultaneously.

Thanks for the updates. I'll put them in the presentation.

Mike

[ozrien]

- On slide 24, it is said that you need to connect CAN if you want current-related data. It is required to connect CAN to the PDP period. This is how battery voltage shows up on the DS and I believe a robot will not pass inspection without it.

Definitely need to wire PDP to canbus to get it's current values, unless you plan on getting them from TalonSRX instead over CANbus (which is a bit more accurate).

DS batVoltage actually comes from the RIO. You can additionally read the PDP's report battery voltage through robot API and RIO-web-based config.

PDP required for inspect was true last season. Won't know for sure for next season until kickoff.

[ozrien]

Also good catch on the Jags. You don't need a 2CAN to use Jags with roboRIO+CAN. The robotAPI was updated last year to use the onboard CANbus for Jags as well.

In other words, the differences in comms between RIO<=> Jag and RIO<=>TalonSRX is handled in software. Sorry Mike if that point wasn't communicated better. As much as I liked the 2CAN, we were very happy last year with integration of CANbus in the RIO (best for teams).

[taichichuan]

Originally Posted by ozrien

Also good catch on the Jags. You don't need a 2CAN to use Jags with roboRIO+CAN. The robotAPI was updated last year to use the onboard CANbus for Jags as well.

In other words, the differences in comms between RIO<=> Jag and RIO<=>TalonSRX is handled in software. Sorry Mike if that point wasn't communicated better. As much as I liked the 2CAN, we were very happy last year with integration of CANbus in the RIO (best for teams).

Thanks, Omar! I think I got all of that into update #2. Hopefully, this presentation will help teams understand all of the pieces come kick-off.

Mike