Ever since i saw a mobile robot named Accbot made by my friend praveen Sridhar, which used an arduino board programmed with javascript, i began exploring for other ways of programming an arduino without using the standard c++ code.
It was during that time i came across the new firmware LIFA by National Instruments which provided an interface to integrate arduino with LabView.More about LIFA can be found here.
Since I was so passionate about robots i decide to build a mobile robot controlled by labview.
And that was how LabBot1.0 , my labview controlled mobile robot was created.
The LabBot had the following interfaces:
1.Control Panel: A control panel for controlling and guiding the movement of the robot.The front control panel had 4 buttons for each direction and 4 indicator lights to indicate the direction of movement.
2.Sensor Interface : The front panel also included a sensor interface for providing an interface between sensors used in the mobile robot and the user.Here for this robot i used only a IR sensor and a corresponding level indicator was included in the front panel.
The hardware of the LabBot consisted of the following items:
1.Arduino Microcontroller:
2.IR analog sensor
3.L293A motor driver
4.two DC motors
It took me some time to integrate the arduino with labview ,since my laptop didnt had a few drivers.But once i got the drivers installed in my system it took me just few hours to get my robot running.Here is the video of my LabBot1.0.
It was during that time i came across the new firmware LIFA by National Instruments which provided an interface to integrate arduino with LabView.More about LIFA can be found here.
Since I was so passionate about robots i decide to build a mobile robot controlled by labview.
And that was how LabBot1.0 , my labview controlled mobile robot was created.
The LabBot had the following interfaces:
1.Control Panel: A control panel for controlling and guiding the movement of the robot.The front control panel had 4 buttons for each direction and 4 indicator lights to indicate the direction of movement.
2.Sensor Interface : The front panel also included a sensor interface for providing an interface between sensors used in the mobile robot and the user.Here for this robot i used only a IR sensor and a corresponding level indicator was included in the front panel.
The hardware of the LabBot consisted of the following items:
1.Arduino Microcontroller:
2.IR analog sensor
3.L293A motor driver
4.two DC motors
It took me some time to integrate the arduino with labview ,since my laptop didnt had a few drivers.But once i got the drivers installed in my system it took me just few hours to get my robot running.Here is the video of my LabBot1.0.
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