NEW 2009 Control System Released

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Originally Posted by Adam Y.

We are building robots not a microwave. In this case you need to change the requirments from a procedural to an object orientated language if you want to do anything useful. I've bought a few different books on robotics research and it always ended up having it skip out of procedural designs within two or three chapters.

Keep in mind that the cRIO is an embedded system. VA Tech did use Lab View on their DARPA urban challenge robot but the image processing, navigation, obstacle avoidance, etc. was performed on a pair of quad core servers. The cRIO was relegated to the break, throttle, and steering control functions that are pretty much what we have been doing with the current control system for years. I’m not saying that you can’t do a lot more with 64MB of RAM and a 32 bit processor but you still might actually have to worry about the efficiency of the implementation. You will always find yourself in a resource constrained situation if you are in a competitive real-world situation. I'm sure that the game designers will make sure of that soon enough.