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Control and Monitoring for Robotics

Control and Monitoring for Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles

Robotics is one of the fastest growing and most complex engineering fields. National Instruments offers an intuitive development platform for designing everything from autonomous vehicles to industrial fixed-based arms. When designing complex robotics applications, you can be more productive with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, which provides a high level of abstraction for sensor communication, kinematics and autonomy algorithms, motor control, and more.

Industrial Robotic Arms Resource Kit

Find tutorials, webcasts, and other resources that demonstrate why you should use NI tools for you next industrial robotic arms application. The kit includes the following:

  • Webcast, tutorials, and example code from the ImagingLab Robotics Library for DENSO
  • Tutorial on calibrating vision and robot systems to use the same coordinate system
  • Webcast on creating a vision guided robotics application

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Top 3 Challenges in Prototyping Robots

Learn the three biggest challenges that developers face when prototyping robots and how the latest design tools from NI can help you meet these challenges and shorten your development time.

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ImagingLab Robotics Library for DENSO Reference Guide

Pulled from the Industrial Robotic Arms Resource Kit, this tutorial and example code allows you to make your robotics system smarter without the need for complex robotics programming expertise.

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Robotics Applications

Industrial Robot Arms

Learn how LabVIEW is making new applications for industrial robots possible by integrating measurements, vision, embedded control, and human machine interfaces into one development platform.

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Autonomous Vehicles

Learn how the NI development platform has been used to rapidly prototype autonomous vehicles for research and industry.

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Robotics Education

Explore tools and resources for teaching robotics and mechatronics concepts to engineering and computer science students.

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