NI launches Labview Robotics 2009 design software
A National Instruments product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 14, 2010
National Instruments (NI) has launched the latest version of its graphical system design software, which provides a standard development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems.
NI Labview Robotics 2009 delivers an extensive robotics library with connectivity to standard robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operations and perception and motion functions for robots and autonomous vehicles.
With this new software, engineers and scientists can now implement ideas faster with deployment to real-time embedded and field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) hardware.
They can also maximise the software flexibility through integration with a variety of processing platforms, third-party software tools and prebuilt robot platforms.
Thanks to its open graphical system design platform, Labview Robotics 2009 can import code from other languages including C/C++, .m files and VHDL, and can communicate with a variety of sensors using built-in drivers for everything from Lidar, infrared, sonar and GPS devices to reduce development time, allowing engineers and scientists to focus on adding their own algorithms and intelligence.
The software includes new robotics intellectual property (IP), which is capable of implementation to real-time and embedded hardware for obstacle avoidance, inverse kinematics and search algorithms to help an autonomous system or robot plan an optimal path.
Labview Robotics 2009 is suitable for designing and prototyping a number of applications, including autonomous and semi-autonomous ground vehicles, robot rescue platforms, personal and service robots, medical robotic devices, academic and research robots and agricultural and mining systems.
When combined with NI CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO devices, Labview Robotics 2009 provides a complete development platform for designing robotic control systems.
The reconfigurable input/output (RIO) architecture incorporates a real-time processor, an FPGA and a range of I/O, including analogue, digital, motion and communication.
By combining off-the-shelf sensors with a CompactRIO or NI Single-Board RIO embedded system, engineers and scientists can rapidly design and prototype complex robotic applications.
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