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Tutorials
—The Getting Started with NI LabVIEW Robotics tutorial page includes brief tutorials
for beginning to use the LabVIEW environment, robotics-specific capabilities, NI reconfigurable
I/O (RIO) hardware, and Robotics Simulation examples. Refer to the National Instruments website
at
ni.com/info
and enter the info code
exgqr4
for Robotics getting started tutorials and examples.
Related National Instruments Software
Depending on the LabVIEW Robotics package you purchase, you might have access to certain LabVIEW
modules and toolkits, other National Instruments software, and device drivers that add functionality
useful in robotics programming to the LabVIEW Development System. For example, this manual contains
an exercise that requires the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules, which allow you to
use LabVIEW graphical programming to build applications that run on real-time operating systems or
NI FPGA targets, respectively.
Refer to the readme file on the Robotics DVD for information about the products to which you have
access.
Sensor and Actuator Drivers
The Robotics Module includes drivers for a variety of programmable sensors and actuators. You can
access information about many drivers, such as the device models the drivers support, in readme files
located in the
labview\instr.lib\
device
directory, where
device
is the name of a sensor or actuator
for which you have drivers installed.
National Instruments works with major sensor vendors to provide a library of ready-to-use drivers. Refer
to the National Instruments Web site at
ni.com/info
and enter the info code
ex3mbp
to find and
download sensor drivers. You also can use the use the NI Instrument Driver Finder to find sensor drivers.
Select
Tools»Instrumentation»Find Instrument Drivers
or
Help»Find Instrument Drivers
to launch
the Instrument Driver Finder. You must have Internet access to use the Instrument Driver Finder.
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Getting Started with the LabVIEW Robotics Module