Does anyone know where I can find an end-to-end description of the FRC control system? It would need to show:
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End-to-end from (joy stick movement) to (driver interface), (across the wireless link to the cRIO) to (digital sidecar) to (victor or other controller) to (motor)
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End-to-end from, say a sensor or cRIO (i.e. battery voltage) back to operator display.
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What the signals look like (i.e. if digital, what format, if PWM, pulse descriptions, if motor drive from controller, what that looks like) at each point.
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IP addresses (or IP addess templates) of each device
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Differences in signal paths at competition and during development.
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At a low enough level to be independent of programming system (Java, LabView, etc.), but high enough level to understand how messages get across the system.
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Any other info that would help with giving a quick leg-up on how the control system works.
If all this already exists in some document, would you point me to it?
I’d like my team to have more than a cook-book understanding of how the control system goes together, and I think other teams might benefit from this, too.
Thanks.
wevets