ANNOUNCING: Kauai Labs navX-MXP Upgrade, navX-Micro & SF2

[slibert]

Just in time for the FIRST FRC 2017 "Steamworks" season, Kauai Labs announces the following exciting upgrades and new products - designed to help teams Build Better Robots®.

All software items below will be available for download on January 7, 2017.



Classic. Must-have. Featured on Championship Robots.

navX-MXP is a mature, must-have navigation sensor for a FRC RoboRIO-based robot control system. Over a thousand FRC teams have purchased navX-MXP to enhance drive-train navigation, including several teams competing in the FRC 2016 World Championship Finals.

navX-MXP 3.0 - a free software upgrade to existing navX-MXP customers - includes these new features:

• 200 Hz Update Rate

• Full RoboRIO support for USB, in addition to SPI, I2C and TTL UART

• Redesigned LabVIEW Library - now even easier to use

• New Linux library - great for integrating navX-MXP into a separate vision co-processor

• Libraries for integrating nav-MXP into Android-based FIRST FTC Robots

Reduced size and cost. Great as a second IMU. Sold out on day one of FIRST Choice 2017.

navX-Micro is a new, smaller, lower-cost IMU, great for FRC and FTC teams with limited budgets.

navX-Micro also works great as a second IMU for measuring orientation of robot arms and other moving devices.

navX-Micro is software-compatible with navX-MXP and works with all RoboRIO libraries, which now include support for multiple simultaneous navX-MXP & navX-Micro devices.




New for 2017.

SF2 is a free, open-source software framework making navX-MXP and navX-Micro even more powerful - fusing multiple sensors together to help you build even better robots.

Available in LabVIEW, C++ and Java for the RoboRIO, the initial SF2 release enables Video Processing Latency Correction on FRC robots.

[marshall]

This is the announcement I've been waiting for.

Thanks Scott!

[jojoguy10]

This is amazing! Can't wait to try out the Vision Latency library!

[BrianAtlanta]

Some cool stuff!

[euhlmann]

Are there any differences in accuracy between the NavX MXP and the micro? Does the micro support omnimount like the MXP?

[slibert]

Originally Posted by euhlmann

Are there any differences in accuracy between the NavX MXP and the micro? Does the micro support omnimount like the MXP?

navX-MXP and navX-Micro are identical with respect to accuracy - the same Invensense MPU-9250 is on both, and the firmware that performs automatic calibration and other cool features like Omnimount is also the same.

The only significant difference between navX-MXP and navX-Micro is that navX-MXP adds (a) SPI and TTL UART interfaces, (b) IO Expansion and (c) MXP connector.

[slibert]

The 2017 navX-MXP and navX-Micro upgrades are now available.

If your navX-MXP is at a firmware version lower than 3.0.289, you are encouraged to update your firmware as well.

The 2017 Sensor Fusion Framework (SF2) library is also now available.

Unleash the hounds!

[naldarn]

The Labview information is difficult to find, http://www.pdocs.kauailabs.com/navx-mxp/labview-ae/

has nothing on it.

and if you go to the navx-micro for the examples, it takes you to github and shows you the c++ examples instead of Labview.

[slibert]

Originally Posted by naldarn

The Labview information is difficult to find, http://www.pdocs.kauailabs.com/navx-mxp/labview-ae/

has nothing on it.

and if you go to the navx-micro for the examples, it takes you to github and shows you the c++ examples instead of Labview.

Thanks for the head's up; the path to the labview AE URL is fixed.

As far as the navX-Micro examples, you likely found yourself to the FTC examples; there are separate FRC examples linked to as well on the navX-Micro Examples page.