Robotics

[seancassidy]

Hello all,

As part of my university final year project I have to design some mobile robot simulations.

I've based my code upon the multiple robots in maze example, what I have done is taken out one of the robots and opened a new project, I have added the Garmin GPS sensor to the starter kit 2.0 base and am still using the Parallax ping sensor and the relevant code for it to navigate, I want the gps to record the robots position and speed in the environment how would you suggest doing that, I've got myself in a panic as I've got code which doesn't generate errors and runs but the gps sensor does not seem to work.

I'm fairly new to Labview so things will need explaining to me in quite simple terms.

I will provide screenshots of my code so far if that helps.

Appreciate any help provided.

Sean

[camerond]

Screenshots would not greatly help anyone advise you, code (i.e., VIs) would help.

I do not think that many here would be familiar with your multiple robots in maze example and the starter kit 2.0, so that doesn't immediately help much either. Are you talking about a LEGO Mindstorms based robot? Because there is a special forum for that.

As to the particulars of your project, how fast are the robots moving, how far do they go, and what is the resolution of the Garmin GPS you are using?

Cameron

[seancassidy]

As far as the project goes its all virtual, the robot only moves around in the default environments.

I will provide a zip file with all the code in it. All of the dll files etc should be in there. The main loop of the code updates every 30 milliseconds.

Ignore the testing .lvm file that is for later when I eventually log the gps data

[seancassidy]

I now know the exact problem. I have changed to the ubox gps unit, it is definetly attached to my robot, but I'm having trouble reading the data it produces. Keep in mind I do not intend to take this into the real world. Do the simulated environments work with gps? if not how else would log the posistion of the robot in its environment?