Examine an NI-sponsored senior design project at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology that integrated a 5-degree-of-freedom manipulator into an existing mobile robotics platform. Students used a variety of LabVIEW Robotics libraries to integrate the mobile platform with additional sensors (such as PID-controlled line following) and to integrate the control of the manipulator with an inverse kinematic model. The result was an educational reference architecture that demonstrated how LabVIEW graphical system design tools can control a complex and multidegree-of-freedom mobile platform.
Jason Block, and Luke Woolley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
