CompactRIO (or cRIO ) is a real-time embedded industrial controller made by National Instruments for industrial control systems . The CompactRIO is a combination of a real-time controller, reconfigurable IO Modules (RIO), FPGA module and an Ethernet expansion chassis.
31-566: The CompactRIO system is a combination of a real-time controller chassis, reconfigurable IO Modules (RIO), an FPGA module and an Ethernet expansion chassis. Third-party modules are also available, and are generally compatible with NI-produced chassis controllers. CompactRIO real-time controllers include a microprocessor for implementing control algorithms, and support a wide range of clock frequencies. Controllers are only compatible with National Instruments C Series I/O Modules. I/O modules are hot swappable (can be connected/disconnected while
62-599: A PC VI efficiently and with quite low latency. Data can also be piped though 'FPGA to HOST' and 'HOST to FPGA' DMA fifos, which also work over the network interface. Each VI having an interface, each host FIFO connection and each IRQ connection all count as accessors to the FPGA hosted by the controller. These FIFO's can typically saturate the Ethernet connection of the controller, offering good performance both in terms of bandwidth, and with careful use, latency. The LabVIEW FPGA interface
93-526: A documentary film called I, Wombot . The film premiered during the 2011 Dungog Film Festival . A book called The New Cool was written by Neal Bascomb about the story of Team 1717 from Goleta, California as they competed in the 2009 game season. A movie adaptation directed by Michael Bacall is being produced. The CNN documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America", which aired on May 15, 2011, followed three FIRST Robotics Competition teams during
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155-664: A monitor for observing operation. CompactRIO controllers can be programmed with LabVIEW , National Instruments' graphical programming language ; C; C++; or Java. LabVIEW must be used to program the embedded FPGA, although VHDL and verilog components can be included. Newer controllers come with a Linux based RTOS , NI Linux Real-Time, created as part of the Linux Foundation 's Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project. Programs created in LabVIEW are compiled into machine code for NI Linux Real-Time and hardware description language (HDL) for
186-625: A previous season), and 268 are "rookie teams" (meaning that 2023 was their first season of competition). The countries represented are listed below: (in decreasing order of number of teams as of 2023) The FIRST Championship is the culmination of the FIRST Robotics Competition season, and occurs in late April each year. Roughly 800 teams participated in two Championship events in 2018, held in April in Houston, Texas and Detroit, Michigan . After
217-452: A recipe for engaging young people, Kamen says, turned out to be relatively straightforward. "It's after school, not in school. It's aspirational, not required," he explained to me. "You don't get quizzes and tests, you go into competitions and get trophies and letters. You don't have teachers, you have coaches. You nurture, you don't judge. You create teamwork between all the participants. We justify sports for teamwork but why, when we do it in
248-506: A regional FIRST Robotics Competition competition, most notably episode 8 "Girl Code". In June 2018, HBO aired a Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode, which in a segment, the correspondent Soledad O'Brien interviewed Dean Kamen about FIRST and FIRST Robotics Competition and then later interviewed students from various FRC teams. The February 25, 2020 episode of the ABC sitcom Black-ish features recurring character, Jack Johnson, joining
279-474: A round-trip delay per additional access added, which can very quickly add up. This can be worked around by grouping all controls into one cluster, and all displays into another, for each write/read access, and for each accessor. It is possible to have a local real-time VI running on the controller which concurrently accesses a different set of clusters without interference, and piping data from one cluster to another can allow data to flow between this real-time VI and
310-410: A six-week period to build robots capable of competing in that year's game that weigh up to 125 pounds (57 kg). Robots complete tasks such as scoring balls into goals, hanging on bars, placing objects in predetermined locations, and balancing robots on various field elements. The game, along with the required set of tasks, changes annually. While teams are given a kit of a standard set of parts during
341-548: A subsidiary of Comcast , and was available via OnDemand for the month of January 2015. In 2016, Christina Li, a member of Team 217, the ThunderChickens, was spotlighted on an episode of Nickelodeon's The Halo Effect entitled "Hello World". A coding camp that Li organized for young girls was featured on the episode, and 217's robot from the 2015 season made an appearance. The fourth season of The Fosters (2013 TV series) had several episodes featuring characters competing in
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#1732870055632372-481: Is also available for C. CompactRIO systems are often used as an industrial control unit, where a small form factor are important. CompactRIO is commonly used as headless systems (without a user interface) which are designed to run in a confined space, under harsh conditions. CompactRIO systems can also be connected to a host PC which can be used for supervisory purposes and for displaying logged data. Other examples of applications areas are: Intelligent Systems for
403-668: Is connected to the real-time controller using an internal PCI bus, and is accessible over a LabVIEW interface which operates both locally on the controller as well as over a LAN from LabVIEW on a PC. The Ethernet chassis includes an Ethernet port ( 8P8C ), which can connect the CompactRIO controller to a PC. The chassis is available in 4 slot and 8 slot varieties. Third-party modules are manufactured for additional features, such as LCD or VGA displays. Newer, high-performance CompactRIO controllers also have built-in VGA graphics which can be connected to
434-474: The 2011 season . The documentary profiled one student from each team, covering different geographic and socioeconomic levels: Shaan Patel from Team 1403 Cougar Robotics, Maria Castro from Team 842 Falcon Robotics, and Brian Whited from Team 3675 Eagletrons. On August 14, 2011, ABC aired a special on FIRST called "i.am FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll" that featured many famous musical artists such as The Black Eyed Peas and Willow Smith . will.i.am himself
465-494: The FIRST Championship event, where they competed in a tournament. In addition to on-field competition, teams and team members competed for awards recognizing entrepreneurship, creativity, engineering, industrial design, safety, controls, media, quality, and exemplifying the core values of the program. As a result of COVID-19, the amount of active teams decreased during the 2021 season; however, numbers began to increase during
496-438: The 2022 championships concluded FIRST announced that the world championship would take place at a single location, Houston, Texas, for the 2023 and 2024 seasons. This was later updated through 2027. The PBS documentary "Gearing Up" followed four teams through the 2008 season. In the television series Dean of Invention , Dean Kamen made appeals promoting FIRST prior to commercial breaks. In 2008, FRC Team 1114, Simbotics,
527-529: The 2022 season. As of 2023, there were 3,300 high school teams with approximately 83,000 high schoolers across 31 countries competing. Most teams reside in the United States, with Canada , Turkey , Mexico , Israel , China , and Australia contributing significant numbers of teams. FIRST was founded in 1989 by American inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen , with inspiration and assistance from physicist and MIT professor emeritus Woodie Flowers . Kamen
558-621: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Power Electronics and Inverter Control, Condition Monitoring of Rotating Equipment, Power Quality Monitoring, Transportation and Heavy Equipment, and Laser or Hydraulic Control. The CompactRIO was used from 2009 until 2015 as the primary control unit in the FIRST Robotics Competition . It has been replaced now by the National Instruments roboRIO . Input From Misplaced Pages,
589-508: The Xilinx FPGA toolchain automatically during deployment of the code to the target. The Linux Real-Time OS running in the real-time controller supports a filesystem and hence data logging is also available at the controller level. The Full Development System version of LabVIEW does not come with the modules needed to program the cRIO. The Real-Time Module and FPGA Modules have to be purchased separately and installed with LabVIEW for programming
620-437: The annual Kickoff, they are also allowed and encouraged to buy or fabricate specialized parts. FIRST Robotics Competition is one of five robotics competition programs organized by FIRST , the other four being FIRST LEGO League Discover, FIRST LEGO League Explore , FIRST LEGO League Challenge , and FIRST Tech Challenge . The culture of FIRST Robotics Competition is built around two values. "Gracious Professionalism" embraces
651-431: The classroom, do we call it cheating?" Most of all, it was a nonjudgmental space, where in contrast science and math in traditional educational settings had been soured with embarrassment and uncertainty. Kamen has stated that FIRST is the invention he feels most proud of and predicts that participants will be responsible for significant technological advances in years to come. The first FIRST Robotics Competition season
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#1732870055632682-615: The competition inherent in the program but rejects trash talk and chest-thumping, instead embracing empathy and respect for other teams. "Coopertition" emphasizes that teams can cooperate and compete at the same time. The goal of the program is to inspire students to be science and technology leaders. 2022 was the 31st year of the competition. 3,225 teams, including more than 80,000 students and 25,000 mentors from 26 countries, built robots. The 2022 season included 58 Regional Competitions, 90 District Qualifying Competitions, and 11 District Championships. In 2022, over 450 teams won slots to attend
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744-641: The hardware. The programming is done on a Host PC running the Windows operating system and is deployed on the cRIO via Ethernet. It is not necessary to run a real-time VI on the controller in order to run the FPGA VI, as the LabVIEW FPGA interface is network capable, supporting up to 7 concurrent accessors. This is done with a connection URL like RIO://ip/RIO0 Do note that the read/write interface block appears to package multiple accessors into one, but actually loops with
775-512: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Input&oldid=1184557364 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition ( FRC ) is an international high school robotics competition. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work during
806-458: The parade, with one robot cutting the ribbon and the others shooting confetti. In the 2014 movie Transformers: Age of Extinction , a FIRST Robotics Competition Robot built by Team 2468, Team Appreciate, for the 2012 Season was featured in Cade Yeager's garage shooting the foam basketball game pieces from Rebound Rumble . The 2015 Kickoff was, for the first time, broadcast by NBCUniversal ,
837-408: The unit is powered up). The FPGA Module may be used to implement high-performance data processing on reconfigurable fabric. Such data processing may be performed on data streaming in from connected I/O Modules. The module is powered by a Xilinx Virtex high-performance FPGA on the earlier models, and Kintex-7, Artix-7 or Zynq Xilinx FPGA on the newer models. The FPGA can be programmed separately and
868-423: Was disappointed with the number of kids—particularly women and minorities—who did not consider science and technology careers and decided to do something about it. As an inventor, he looked for activities that captured the enthusiasm of students and decided that combining the excitement of sports competition with science and technology had the potential to inspire students. Distilling what sports had done right into
899-499: Was featured in an ongoing storyline on the hit Canadian TV drama "Degrassi: Next Generation". Team 1114's 2006-2007 world champion VEX robot made an appearance, as well as their 2008 world champion FRC robot. During the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition season, FIRST team 3132, Thunder Down Under, was followed by a Macquarie University student film crew to document the first year of FIRST Robotics Competition in Australia. The crew produced
930-542: Was in 1992 and had one event at a high school gymnasium in New Hampshire . That first competition was relatively small-scale, similar in size to today's FIRST Tech Challenge and Vex Robotics Competition games. Robots relied on a wired connection to receive data from drivers; in the following year , it quickly transitioned to a wireless system. 3,304 teams from 31 countries competed in 2023 Charged Up . Of these, 3,036 are "veteran teams" (meaning they have competed in
961-523: Was the executive producer of the special. The program placed a special focus on the FIRST Robotics competition, even though it included segments on the FIRST Tech Challenge , FIRST LEGO League , and FIRST LEGO League Jr. From 1996 to 1998, the FIRST Championship was covered by ESPN . For the 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade , five FIRST Robotics Competition teams and their robots led