How to use a joystick on the local side to control a robot remotely connected by FP2000 .

[Taming]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to use a joystick to teleoperate a robot on the remote side.

The robot is connected to the Field point FP2000 RT module and hooked to the internet.

I can use web publish to publish the control to the local side and control the robot by

changing the control value on the picture.  Howerer, I have no idea about how to connect the

joystick on the local compurer to the remote FP rt system. It seems I need to initionalized a communication

between them. Does any one have the same  experiences??

Ta. Shih  

[tst]

What you will probably need to do is write a seperate program which will run on the PC and send commands to the program running on the FP.

You can read the joystick data with the VIs in the Advanced>>Input palette and you can communicate with your program by using a simple protocol over a TCP connection. You can find some examples in the example finder (Help>>Find Examples) by searching for TCP.  The protocol itself is up to you and can probably be fairly simple.

Message Edited by tst on 02-15-2006 08:20 PM

[Khalid]

If you haven't already, you may want to take a look at the following Customer Solution:

Developing a Remote-Controlled CASE CX-160 Excavator Using National Instruments FieldPoint

http://sine.ni.com/csol/cds/item/vw/p/id/396/nid/124400 

Regards,

-Khalid

[Taming]

Thanks for the kind suggestions, I gradually have a picture to do it.

Ta. Shih