using CAN with the 2010 control system

[Andy Bradley]

Originally Posted by airnate

If anyone has difficulty navigating the FIRST Forge site looking for the LabVIEW code to use with Jaguar / CAN, here is a deep link to the zip file (at least where it is today):

Thanks very much. Do you know in which directory the extracted files should be placed so that LabView can see them?

[airnate]

Originally Posted by Andy Bradley

Thanks very much. Do you know in which directory the extracted files should be placed so that LabView can see them?

We put them in

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 8.6\user.lib\CANJaguar for LabVIEW

They will then show up in your User Libraries palette in LabVIEW.

[imcmahon01]

I have a similar question to Andy's. Our team is using the netbeans ide; how is the CANJaguar for Java folder added as a library to allow the use of edu.wpi.first.addons.CANJaguar?

[MikeE]

Our team has looked at the Java CANJaguar release, and at the moment only voltage setting is supported - none of the closed-loop methods are implemented yet.
I'm not sure if the primary developers are planning to release another update before the end of build, but we plan to try to implement some of the functionality we need ourselves. If we have success we will make our efforts available to the community.
In the meantime, the bdc-comm utility does allow some experimentation with closed loop control, but obviously not under actual robot conditions.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by MikeE

Our team has looked at the Java CANJaguar release, and at the moment only voltage setting is supported - none of the closed-loop methods are implemented yet.
I'm not sure if the primary developers are planning to release another update before the end of build, but we plan to try to implement some of the functionality we need ourselves.

This is the first I've heard of a team wanting to use CANJaguar with Java. I've not ported the C++ class's closed loop methods to Java yet because I had not heard any demand. I'll either do it or find someone else to do it before the end of build.

-Joe

[MikeE]

Thanks for the quick reply Joe. The team decided to program in Java this year since it is the language taught at the High School, and we only started seriously investigating CANJaguar support this past weekend.

I also realize this is the wrong sub-forum for Java discussion, so apologies for hijacking a Labview thread.