Cogmation's robotic design and simulation tools for FIRST

FIRST General Forum
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Cogmation has been busy getting ready to help FIRST teams for this year’s competition. We have sample projects for the 2008 and 2011 FIRST fields with the 2012 FIRST field and sample robot coming soon! You can use your SolidWorks and Inventor models in our software, and try our new Kinect plugin!

Everything you need to simulate your success can be found at www.cogmation.com/first

We are also hosting introductory webinars starting Sunday January 22nd, at 2pm CST. Space is limited so sign up today! http://www.cogmation.com/first/webinars.php

We look forward to seeing you there!

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The initial 2012 field is now ready and available for download. We have also included a basic shooter robot as a sample. Both can be found on the downloads page http://www.cogmation.com/first/downloads.php

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So a team needs to register before members can use this?

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There is no registration and no accounts are created. We request your team information so we can provide you with the best support possible if required.

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Hey Cogheads, thanks for your hard work getting the updates and sample files up for the 2012 FIRST robotics competition!

I’ve been working with a couple students on setting up our team Hammer Bot 2012 robot design in robotBuilder 2.6 Beta. We’ve imported our parts from SolidWorks and Inventor. It’s been very helpful to see how you set up our previous years’ bots in your sample files. Those who were on last year’s team got a kick out of driving their virtual 2011 bot!

The 2012 FIRST field you posted looks great in robotSim! Right off the bat I was shooting baskets with your demo bot! Just had to look up the keys you used for driving and shooting in Device Controls. I’m anxious to test out the Kinect with it!

The initial 2012 field is now ready and available for download. We have also included a basic shooter robot as a sample. Both can be found on the downloads page http://www.cogmation.com/first/downloads.php

Rich

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Thanks to the Hammer Heads team we now have some awesome videos of their robots to show off! Check them out at http://bit.ly/firstPlayList

If your team has cool robotSim videos or projects you’d like to show off, contact us and we’ll add them to the playlist!

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Cogmation is offering an introductory webinar Sunday, January 29th.

Getting Started: Importing and Activating Your Robot Models

In this webinar we will start by importing a model in robotBuilder. This model will be the base of a new robot that we will create step by step.

This webinar will cover:

  1. Giving your robot realistic behaviors by adding physical properties such as colliders and rigidbodies
  2. How to add controllable roles (such as servos and motors) to your robotic components
  3. Connecting your robot’s controls to the keyboard

Click here to register](http://www.cogmation.com/first/webinars.php)

Check back frequently for future webinars!

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Need help getting started with robotBuilder or robotSim?

Check out our video tutorials:
http://bit.ly/cogTutorials

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Going to necro this thread to ask if Cogmation has anything up it’s sleeve for this or next season, since NI’s Simulator in LabVIEW has been nerfed in the FRC Code this year, and RobotSim and Builder would be mucho helpful this year.