Demystifying autonomous...

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Ether

I don't know for sure, but a few weeks back when a LabVIEW programmer was showing me the cRIO code that packages the Dashboard data it looked to me like the camera image was not being packed into the 50-element array but rather was being updated separately at a higher rate. Second hand info: I asked a team member who had seen the dashboard camera video and he said it looked to be updating a lot faster than once per second. This was with unmodified (default) 2010 FRC LabVIEW framework code.

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You are correct that the camera images is handled completely separately from the dashboard data.

The default LabVIEW framework code updates the high priority dashboard data in Robot Main (50hz). The Low Priority dashboard data is updated at 2hz (IIRC). For an example of the high priority data updating fast, look at the camera tracking information in the lower right corner of the dashboard.