Team 1718 2011 Beta - Changes Thus Far

[Pi Fighter]

*DISCLAIMER*
The information listed here is what is being observed in the beta test by Team 1718. As such, none of this is official and all of this is subject to change.

Beta testing for the 2011 FRC controls systems in underway, and Team 1718 is currently beta testing the 2011 LabVIEW programming suite. The two major changes thus far from last year to this year are the new safety VI’s, and the death of Autonomous Iterative.

•Safety VI’s are the new watchdogs. Now, you only need to configure the safety updates in your Begin, and update them in TeleOp and Autonomous before the value reaches its target. NI created these as a simpler alternative to the watchdog commands. NI kept the watchdog commands for teams that want to continue using them.

•Autonomous Iterative is no longer a VI. Now, Autonomous Independent is the only autonomous file in the robot project. NI got rid of Iterative so there would be no confusion on the differences, and how to differentiate between the two in Begin.vi. If you want to use Autonomous Iterative (Or rather the closest thing to it), a While Loop in your autonomous is effectively the same thing.

We will continue to add new information to this thread as testing continues.

-Team 1718