Simplifying Robot Software Design

	April 3, 2012
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Simplifying Robot Software Design Which Bus Route Should You Take?

It's tough to design mobile robot software when each engineer and scientist involved has a different opinion. Our advice? Start layer by layer.

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Share: With hundreds of different DAQ devices and a variety of buses, how do you know which bus can best get you to your measurement destination?

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Tech Tips

Help Your Team Make Better Data-Driven Decisions
The way you present your LabVIEW data can have a major impact on how people interpret that data. Find out which reporting option can help you best convey your results.
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Primed for Pressure Measurements
This tutorial covers pressure measurement methods and sensor types, so you can make the right decisions for your measurement sytem.
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Best Practices for Testing Safety-Compliant Systems
Regulatory standards are increasingly important for complex high-assurance applications. See how you can demonstrate compliance by applying NI product best practices.
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Webcast: NI Multisim and Ultiboard—A Powerful Circuit Prototyping Platform
With desktop simulation and NI prototyping platforms, you can ensure your design meets its specifications at the earliest stages of the design flow.
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Community Highlights

Red Bull and LabVIEW at the Edge of Space
See LabVIEW in action as extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team prepare for a record-breaking stratospheric free-fall jump from 120,000 feet above Earth.
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Dynamic UI Demo for NI CompactDAQ
Check out the UI Interest Group for a fun, dynamic interface to use when configuring your NI CompactDAQ measurement system.
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Example Code: Convert an Excel Timestamp to a LabVIEW Timestamp
By using Active X or the NI LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office you can match your timestamps in LabVIEW with your timestamps in Excel.
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Ice, Ice, Baby: NI Employee Explores Antarctica
NI India field engineer Paras Loomba recently traveled to Antarctica as part of the 2041 International Antarctic Expedition, and he took some NI products along on his adventure.
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What's New

NI Cofounders Earn Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky received the honor at the 2012 UBM Annual Creativity in Electronics Awards, presented by EE Times and EDN.
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G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration Measurement Microphones Complete the System
NI Alliance Partner G.R.A.S. Sound & Vibration now sells microphone kits for use with NI dynamic signal acquisition hardware, so you can get everything you need to build a complete acoustic acquisition system from one place.
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YouTube: NI and Drivven Engine Control and Combustion Analysis
You can incorporate both combustion analysis and engine control into a single system based on the LabVIEW and reconfigurable I/O (RIO) platform.
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Top 5 LabVIEW Add-Ons

1. LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Toolkit »

2. OpenG Libraries »

3. FPGA IP (IPNet): Digital Buses and Protocols »

4. LabVIEW Taskbar Progress Bar API »

5. UI Control Suite: System Controls 2.0 »

Events and Training

Keep Up With the NI Trade Show Schedule »

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Question of the Month
From Antarctica to the edge of space, this issue highlights some pretty extreme engineering. What is your idea of an extreme engineering adventure?
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NI in the Press

RF and Wireless: Your Next Frontier? »

Business IS Personal »

ACE Awards Lifetime Achievement: James Truchard, PhD, and Jeff Kodosky »

Collecting Data at the Edge »

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