NEW 2009 Control System Released

[JesseK]

I'm enthusiastic about the possibilities of this system. There are huge ramifications of being allowed a laptop at the driver's station. Even if much of the communication between the laptop and driver's station is limited, we'll still have the flexibility for more driver control. This could be anything from advanced GUIs to GAs to sensor matrix analysis via Matlab standalone scripts.

For demonstrations, let's consider a couple of things:
1.) You'll still have your IFI bots to take to demonstrations
2.) It is the cRIO that we get one of. We should get a new PDB & sidecar every year. Since the cRIO itself is modular and takes less than a second to reprogram, it's possible to move the cRIO from bot to bot and reprogram it during a demonstration. Sure, we can't show cRIO-based bot-to-bot interactions, but we will still have IFI-based demo bots for the next couple of years.
3.) Our team only has 1 demo each year in which we take more than 1 bot. Every other time more than 1 would be too much. Is this not the case with most teams?