Overview

The National Instruments LabVIEW graphical development environment helps create flexible and scalable design and control applications for your robot. With LabVIEW, you can:

1.       Easily interface with input and output signals

2.       Analyze data for meaningful information and advanced control

3.       View and interpret results through intuitive displays and user interfaces

In the field of robotic design, the LabVIEW graphical development environment provides a platform for dynamic system simulation and control design, real-time vision processing, and deployment to various execution targets, including your CompactRIO FRC controller.

The following exercises will provide you with an introduction to the tools and capabilities of LabVIEW.  You will gain a general understanding of virtual instrumentation and how to implement code in LabVIEW. Skills include designing a user interface, using loop structures, and simple decision making in code.   You will also become familiar with the LabVIEW WPI library, which will allow you to easily control motors and take measurements from different types of sensors.  You will then be one step closer to using LabVIEW to program a robot!

Run a Prewritten Example:

The level of difficulty and the estimated time to complete can be found at the beginning of each exercise.  If you do not have time to complete an exercise, you can open up a pre-written, documented example to get a basic overview of LabVIEW.

Next Step: Please Proceed to Exercise 1 Here