Hi everyone! I am new in this forum. Currently I am working with one lecturer in developing programming for ARM robotics. We are still looking for the robot, which we plan to have the AL5A. We found that AL5A can be programmed using LabVIEW. Can anyone clarify on this? Has anyone has any experience using LabVIEW to control the AL5A?
On the programming/software part, as I mentioned, we are going to program the AL5A using LabVIEW. Does anyone here know what toolkits or addon that I need to have besides the basic LabVIEW software? please help me on this…
On the controller part, is the AL5A combo kit comes with the controller or I need to have my own external controller?
Thank you in advance for all the suggestions and advices.
you just need to send commands out a serial communications port… like read/wirting to any type of equipment with an rs-232 interface. I don’t recall having seen someone else having written a labview module and submitted it here on the forums for d/l. perhaps searching for labview would get you started if I am wrong.
There are many posts on the forum concerning labview. Mostly with getting the communication operating properly. It’s surely possible to write software for the arm in this language.
Um, I guess what I meant was no one has yet so far as I can remember written a labview VI for even an ssc-32 (much less a higher order assembly such as an arm incorporating an ssc-32) and released the code back to the forum as a reference for others trying to develop in labview. About the closest to that I can think of is the MSRS support… which has nothing to do with labview of course… which someone developed and released.
I searched the forum for labview and found 11 threads. Most were asking for help connecting, and unfortunately many didn’t write back telling us what fixed the problem. However there are a few who state it works. One specifically is iop098. He has made a 3DOF BH3 inline hexapod control program using labview running on a laptop. It works quite well… lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php … ht=labview
I’m sure an arm can be controlled if this beast can be.
Hmm so much for the attempted indirect inference that it sure would be nice if someone familiar with LabView were to write a VI for the SSC-32 that allowed it to be included as a module on a test bench.
The benefit of this is two-fold in that it allows the rudiments of operating an ssc-32 to be abstracted to simply setting servo values (maybe in angles even wink wink nudge nudge) at the VI connections, and it allows someone looking to just use inline code in their own programming to see how it was done by taking apart the VI source.
Thank you for all response. Jim, when you said that the kit has everything that I need, does it means all I need now is to purchase LabVIEW separately besides the kit, right? That means I do not have to get a new controller for the AL5A, right?
I am a LabVIEW user and have an experience to interface an equipment via serial port (RS232) with LabVIEW and done a simple programming on it. Now I am going to assist the lecturer with the LabVIEW programming for the ARM robot. But first, I must get 1 unit of the ARM Robot which I plan to get the AL5A. I hope I will doing it well.
Thank you very much once again to all for sharing information, experience and knowledge on this. I will keep you guys update once I started with this project
No worries on LabVIEW procurement coz my company is one of National Instruments Alliance Partner in Malaysia and we are not only a distributor but also a system integrator using NI Tools… thanks guys for your supports!!
Hey guys i’m currently doing a project in college which requires me to add force feedback to a lynx 6 arm via Labview and i was wondering if anyone could tell me which would be better to use, the ssc-32 board or a basic stamp?
I guess that would depends somewhat upon what sensor you are using, how you plan to read it, and if you have DAQ channels available or not. If you are using a simple FSR sensor and have a DAQ analog channel available it would be much more straight forward to use an SSC-32. Even if you don’thave the DAQ channel you can probably use the analog input(s) on the SSC-32. Using a basic stamp will require you to write and debug much code to replicate the servo control functionality of the ssc-32… if a basic stamp can even control enough servos directly AND talk to a serial port at the same time.
I’ve given this some thought. I can’t think of a single reason to use a BS2. Labview can talk to the SSC-32 just fine. A pressure sensor can easily be added to the gripper and to the SSC-32’s analog input. Then it’s just a matter of code. Oh and a Basic Stamp 2 can only do one thing at a time. Here is the tutorial for adding the sensor to the arm. lynxmotion.com/images/html/build129.htm
Thats grand guys thank you very much for the help and for the tutorial actually before I forget does anyone know of if there is an example of read write Labview code to control the ssc-32.
Just so you guys/girls know I managed to get a basic program working in Labview with two grippers moving using a slider bar. I also managed to communicate with an FSR and have it stop the motors if the max force is reached. As I said this program is very basic and still has a lot of adjustments to be made but if anyone wants I can put it up on the forums so people can take a look.
