2018 Beta Testing FRC 358 Goals Look for

2018 Beta Testing FRC 358

Goals Look for software installation problems or documentation lapses that make the process confusing Basic benchtop testing of the default programs Port prior seasons code - Optional use the 2018 software at an offseason competition Advanced feature testing: Network Tables stress test, camera streaming, new Java Shuffleboard dashboard testing

2018 Changes/Updates Driver Station FRC Utilities Brushless Motor Lab. VIEW/Java/C++

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New Connectivity Diagnostics Enet Link - active Ethernet port Robot Radio - answers ping at team address 10. TE. AM. 1 Robot (ip address) - answers ping at the ip address. ip can be 10. TE. AM. 2, 10. TE. AM. xx, 169. 254. xx FMS - talking to the Field Management System (official field only) Enet (ip address) - PC Ethernet active ip (not necessarily the robot) Wifi - PC wireless is actively connected to wifi network (robot radio or school/home/venue AP) USB - PC tethered to robo. RIO via USB (172. 22. 11. 2) Firewall (Dom, Pub, Pr) - lit green means all three parts of the Windows firewall are disabled. (Dom, Pub, Pr) identifies which parts are still active.

Nidec Brushless Motor Small motor, encoder and motor controller in one package 4 amp, ~44 watts, 2700 rpm free speed Powered directly from PDP. Use on a 20 amp PDP circuit for now-2018 rules will specify the correct breaker 1 lb 7. 6 oz #6 -32 on a 2" bolt circle face mounting (or M 4 x 0. 7 metric) Output shaft is the same as a CIM shaft, 2 mm keyway

Nidec Brushless Motor Controlled via robo. RIO DIO output and a separate robo. RIO PWM connection that just Enables the motor Tachometer and Direction pin outputs do not come pre-wired The tachometer does not work while the motor is Disabled, so spinning the shaft in that state will not give any feedback

Robo. RIO Imaging Tool A desktop shortcut to the robo. RIO Imaging Tool has been added, so it's much easier to find and use. A progress status bar has been added to the Imaging Tool, so you get an idea that it's progressing and how much is left.

Software Installation Install the programming language of your choice: Basic Lab. VIEW 2017 or Java or C++ See Installing the FRC 2018 Update Suite (All Languages) FRC Update You get a message if the Microsoft. NET Framework 3. 5 needs to be installed separately CTRE Installer-obtained separately Update robo. RIO firmware Reimage robo. RIO (operating system) CTRE Phoenix Lifeboat robo. RIO Web. Dash Update If this isn't done, then no CAN devices, e. g. , PDP, PCM, Talon. SRX, will show up in the robo. RIO Web. Dash Other 3 rd Party installations, e. g. , NAVX Update CAN Device firmware, e. g. , PDP, PCM, Talon. SRX (if used) Compile and Download User Code

Lab. VIEW Increase robustness of USB Camera connections and streaming Annual update to the current edition of Lab. VIEW 2017 More Alliance Match Data

Lab. VIEW Simulations Ball Collector/Shooter Mecanum Maze

Java & C++ Languages are separate now-Not a joint installation File transfer via Web. DAV (replacing use of SSH) New base class - Timed. Robot loops on a timer instead of syncing to the arrival of DS packets Robot. Drive class has been split into separate classes for different drive base platform types currently includes Differential Drive (common 4 wd/6 wd/8 wd/tank/etc. platforms), Killough Drive (3 omni's) and Mecanum New JRE (zulu) - separate Java installer for the robo. RIO is no longer necessary Java 8 - Eclipse projects should be configured at source code compatibility to 1. 8 When eclipse starts it will automatically update old projects. If a project is imported, it isn't updated until you close and reopen eclipse Network Tables improved synchronization and New classes and interfaces New Shuffleboard dashboard CTRE rewrite and name changes: Talon. SRX is now PWMTalon. SRX and CANTalon. SRX has been renamed to Talon. SRX, Some work porting older Talon SRX code Outline. Viewer rewrite