0. Introducing the roboRIO
The 2015 Control System
Introducing the roboRIO

1. Today’s Agenda New Hardware Setup of RoboRIO
Differences in Programming
New Software tools
Q & A

2. The Hardware
Touring the board

3. Hardware Specifications
No more Digital Sidecar or Analog Module
10 PWM
4 relay ports
4 analog ports
1 I2C port
10 DIO ports
2 SPI
1 RS232
2 USB(type A)
1 RSL

4. Power Distribution Panel
New Version of the PDB
CAN Bus
temperature
current
battery status
8 outputs for 40A
8 outputs for 30A
0 indexed

5. The PCM Replaces the solenoid module Enabled/Disabled over CAN
Diagnostic information:
solenoid state
compressor state

6. Voltage Regulator Module
Regulated 12V and 5V output
Powered by 12V
Can be used to power
Radio
IP Vision Cameras
Other Custom Circuits
Power over USB

7. Setup and Programming
That New-Board Smell

8. Networking Can connect over: Bridge Configuration Utility mDNS USB
Cannot configure over wireless

9. The roboRIO Web Interface
Found at
The Browser must support Silverlight
Lists CAN Devices
Gives Access to the roboRIO file system
Username: Admin
Password: <blank>

10. roboRIO Imaging and Updating
Use USB type B to type A cable
Update over Web interface
The imaging tool comes with the NI Install

11. Eclipse Both C++ and Java developers will use Eclipse as their IDE
All eclipse users need to download the JDK
All eclipse users should download the C/C++ version of eclipse

12. Software tools FRCSim SmartDashboard RobotBuilder Driver Station
Need to run Ubuntu(Linux Distribution)
SmartDashboard
RobotBuilder
Driver Station

13. Questions
and maybe some answers