From autonomous farming vehicles to medical mobile systems, the NI LabVIEW Robotics platform provides a standard hardware and software development solution for designing your robotic control system. The LabVIEW Robotics Module plugs into the LabVIEW development environment and delivers an extensive robotics library with built-in connectivity to robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operation and robust perception, and motion functions for making your robot or vehicle move. LabVIEW Robotics is ideal for engineers and scientists designing and prototyping the following:
-Autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles including agricultural and military systems
-Robot rescue platforms
-Underwater and aerial vehicles
-Personal and service robots
-Medical robotic devices
-Academic and research robots
Engineers, researchers, and educators worldwide have used LabVIEW graphical system design software to create robotics applications from academic robots to autonomous vehicles and fixed-base industrial robots. LabVIEW software has made it easy to program complex robotics applications by providing a high level of abstraction. The ability to import code from other languages - including C and HDL - and to communicate with a wide variety of sensors using built-in drivers dramatically reduces development time, so you can focus on adding your own algorithms and intelligence. The same powerful platform is capable of targeting a variety of processors including off-the-shelf real-time and FPGA-based systems as well as custom microprocessor and microcontroller devices. If you do not already have LabVIEW, view the LabVIEW Robotics Bundle link under the Resources tab. This bundle features the LabVIEW development environment as well as other foundational products including the LabVIEW Real-Time, LabVIEW FPGA, LabVIEW Vision Development, LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation, and LabVIEW NI SoftMotion modules.
For information on system requirements, view the Resources tab.
Requirements for LabVIEW Robotics Module
In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, the Robotics Module has the following requirements:
LabVIEW 2012 Full, or Professional Development System (32-bit)
At least 350 MB of disk space
Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW 2012.
