The day I started, there was a large development that was happening, National Instruments was releasing the Robotics Module for LabVIEW. "A new version of its graphical system design software that provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems." This was quoted from the official press release that can be found here. From what I see of it so far it is chock full of robotic like programming. My first thoughts where that it was going to be more for First Robotics, geared for elementary programming, but I have been quite surprised. The programs or "VI's" are on the advanced levels, systems that I have seen my colleagues program from scratch with C or other softwares. Things such as LIDAR, GPS, IMU, Inverse Kinematic solvers etc. Plus, the most basic things like Sharp IR and Ultrasonic sensors to name a few. There is also a huge base for drive/steering control for wheeled robots, including omni wheel/mecanum vector drives. Also, they have a simulation engine for obstacle avoidance and path planning that can be fed into real world drives listed above. I am looking forward in the next few weeks to dig into these VI's, in a later post I will do a demo program with my serial Garmin GPS to show what I can do with this new found Power!
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