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Re: Robolab Data Acquisition
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:40:29 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Dick Swan wrote:
> Robolab has terrific data acquisition and logging functionalities
> that build on top of the RIS datalog.
Perhaps I'll actually get an updated copy of Robolab (I gave it up due to no
OSX version, now rectified, and a steep learning curve (for someone raised on
FORTRAN and BASIC). I *love* the datalog (with one exception, see below), but
the fact that NQC generally just imports the numbers "raw" without the labels
makes analysis later more difficult. Not impossible (I use Excel work with it),
just another step or two.
> Robolab + Mindstorms, at a combined price of about $250, has to
> be an incredible value for data acquisition/analysis for student
> analysis. I suspect if it had more memory (flash memory
> expansion) it would find much utility and deployment as a
> professional (vs. student) product in this market.
With two other additions (on the RCX side), I'd agree. "Professional"
dataloggers generally can support much much higher aquisition rates, which would
be helpful in many situations (like college-level physics labs - and the H8 can
support it, I think). One of the applications I have for the RCX is long-term
datalogging in a cave, but for that I really need it to be able to enter a
low-power sleep mode (can the H8 do this while monitoring for trigger
conditions? Or would this require a different base processor?). Even increased
memory doesn't solve the problem when you want 1 second resolution at certain
times, but want to log any interesting events that occur during a 6 month
deployment (searching through 15 million data points isn't much fun, or needed,
even if you have the memory for it).
--
Brian Davis
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| (...) Some of the amazing things Robolab can do with the Datalog are enabled, in part, by the not-available-except...olab-users firmware version they ship with Robolab. I readily admit that a tool (like Robolab) built around a data acquisition (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| The objective of this note is not more input to the recent near "religious" thread of Robolab vs. NQC (or other programming environments)! My objective is to highlight the incredible data acquisition and analysis aspects of Robolab. If you're not (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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