Virtual Driver Station

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Could you add a virtual e-stop (just in case) and a watchdog (in case windows decides to not talk to the virtual DS)?

E-Stop: I suppose, but what's the advantage of this over simply disabling? The spacebar or ESC can both be used to disable the robot (they are not toggles - if you hit either of them it sets the state to disabled no matter what the current state is). There is no E-Stop on the real DS either unless you're connected to the field control system (unless I'm mistaken?).

Watchdog: I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for here. It's already set up such that if it misses more than 5 packets from the robot (approximately 100ms), it disables the robot and takes it out of autonomous mode.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

E-Stop: I suppose, but what's the advantage of this over simply disabling? The spacebar or ESC can both be used to disable the robot (they are not toggles - if you hit either of them it sets the state to disabled no matter what the current state is). There is no E-Stop on the real DS either unless you're connected to the field control system (unless I'm mistaken?).

Watchdog: I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for here. It's already set up such that if it misses more than 5 packets from the robot (approximately 100ms), it disables the robot and takes it out of autonomous mode.

E-stop: Didn't see this in any of your posts. Only saw a 2 key enable.

Watchdog: If the program hangs (not responding), how does it send the disable/teleop bits?

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

E-stop: Didn't see this in any of your posts. Only saw a 2 key enable.

It's in the readme.txt file included in the .zip.

Watchdog: If the program hangs (not responding), how does it send the disable/teleop bits?

If it hangs, it's not sending any packets. If it's not sending packets, the watchdog on the robot will take care of disabling things, just like if the real DS hangs or if things become unplugged, etc.