Robotics Starter Kit Group on NI Forums

Hi all,


I have been posting in the NI Robotics forum and emailing the specialists their to get some info. about our
kit. Lately, I found Robotics Starter Kit group also in the NI website (see attached Link) and i subscribed their and posted an inquiry. I advise you to subscribe in it and check it from time to time.

Regards,
M. Ashraf

Link,
http://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/robotics-starter-kit

Check this

This is in the NI forum, this guy is a noob, pretty much like us :p
They advise him not use the wizard.....

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Real-Time-Measurement-and/sbrio-9631-noob-question/m-p/914960#M6050

Non-Volatile memory

According to this website, the memory is only 64 Mb not 128 Mb
http://www.insidedsp.com/Articles/tabid/64/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/271/Default.aspx

I have Gathered The Following Documents

In my senior project folder,up to now,  I have collected the following documents. Pleae remind me to give it to you :)

1. FPGA Training Slides..zip
2. Datasheet of our Robot..pdf
3. CompactRIO Developers Guide-Full.pdf
4. Getting Started Guide for the Robotics Prototyping Kit.pdf
5. Getting Started with the LabVIEW-Robotics Module.pdf

Found Some more Useful Links & **SURPRIZE**

While I was browsing through out ni.com, I found these useful links. Please spend some time to look at them and give feedback. Thanx.

 

1- This link contains "Robotics Fundamentals Series" of basic consepts on Robotcis science http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/8187

 

 

2- Introduction to NI LabVIEW Robotics
http://zone.ni.com/wv/app/doc/p/id/wv-1414

 

3- Tutourial and exercises on sbRIO 9631 with labview files:

• sbrio_tutorial.pdf
• sbrio_exercises_examples.zip

Very Useful Link for our Project

Please check the following link. It contains many resources specifically for our sbRIO-9631 Robot. 
http://classes.engineering.wustl.edu/ese497/index.php/LabVIEW_for_Robotics

First Progress Report.

The main problem we are facing is interfacing with the FPGA in general, because it's the 1st step in communicating with the robot.

And more specifically,

1. reading or writing into it through lab view.
2. How to use different types of communications (serial, USB, wirles in future). Ethernet we already Know
3. We would like to know how to use the non-volatile memory as well, and whether we can increase its size or not. This will help us saving he program on the robot memory instead of wasting time in downloading it each time we start up the robot.

As we agreed in our last meeting, we have 3 possible solutions.

1. Getting help from NI forum (I already recieved from NI to access the forum)
2. Contact our COE friends (Done)
3. Getting some help from specialized people within the department (e.g. Mr.Aminuddin )

That's all for meanwhile. And we will arange a meeting with Mr. Aminuddin to help us on that.

Welcome

This blog is created to document the progress of my team's senior project. Also to have all discussions and share our ideas about our senior project and get more feasible ideas.