What is LabVIEW

[Andrew Schuetze]

Our application for the pilot was based upon extensive mentor experience with LabView and the direction that our team is taking to increase development of autonomous functions. (Increased autonomous functionality through-out the match)
My question is to help me understand the pilot program equipment a bit more so that as lead teacher for the team I can direct resources and such more efficiently.

How might the DAQ and LabView help us to tune a PID control loop on say a two segmented arm which has a mimic controller on the OI? My conception is that we won't have real time data to view as we test the prototypes rather we can download inputs from the RC mounted device and possibly match them up to values in the PID code...ideally I would want to watch sensor values and the code run in real time. But maybe I am completely off-base. Is the DAQ and LabView going to be used more for external data collection so that one has physical data of how the robot performed so that analysis and verification of predicted robot performance under load conditions can be made?

I am familiar with automated data collection and seen a Lab View interface for science labs some 15 years ago so I am not a novice.


Thanks a bunch,


APS