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Using the LabVIEW Robotics Examples
Publish Date: Dec 15, 2009
Overview
This is a tutorial that shows you how to effectively find and use example VIs in LabVIEW Robotics.
Whether you are new to LabVIEW programming or a veteran robotics programmer, the NI Example Finder is an incredibly useful development tool. You can modify an example VI to fit your
application, or you can copy and paste from one or more example VIs into a VI that you create.
Complete the following steps to browse or search installed example VIs:
Select to launch the NI Example Finder. You also can select options on the window to launch the NI Example Finder. HelpFind Examples Find Robotics Examples Getting Started
Use the or page of the NI Example Finder to find an example VI for a specific development topic. Browse Search
Select the Robotics Example Folder to browse robotics-specific examples.
Along with the hundreds of example VIs it contains for general programming tasks, LabVIEW Robotics includes several example files specifically for robot development, in the Robotics Example
Folder.
Architectures: This example folder contains example project files for various processing architectures, including single processing and multiple, parallel processing control loop examples.
Basics: This example folder contains example project files for basic, low level tasks.
Cogmation: This example folder contains example VIs that demonstrate various control schemes when using Cogmation robotSim API.
Communication Protocols: This example folder contains example project files and VIs to conduct basic, low-level communications on your robot.
Connectivity: This example folder contains example project files demonstrating how one can connect to third-party software from LabVIEW Robotics.
Control and Simulation: This example folder contains example control design and simulation VIs that demonstrate various control plants, control models and simulation techniques to design
your robot control.
Motion Control: This example folder contains example VIs that demonstrate how you can connect to and control actuators to make your robot move.
Path Planning: This example folder contains example VIs that demonstrate various algorithms for robot path planning.
Robotic Arm: This example folder contains example project files and example VIs for fixed-base robot applications.
Sample Robots: This example folder contains the project files created for various example robots and exhibit high-level demonstrations of how to construct your robot system components.
Sensor Drivers: This example folder contains various example files for communicating with your robots sensors.
Starter Kit: This example folder contains example project files for the NI Robotics Starter Kit.
Steering: This example folder contains example project files for various ways to steer a mobile robot.
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Vision: This example folder contains example project files that exhibit various vision processing algorithms.

In addition to the example VIs that ship with LabVIEW Robotics, you also can share and download hundreds of example VIs on the . LabVIEW Robotics Code Exchange
Complete the following process to access the : LabVIEW Robotics Code Exchange
Select under Online Resources on the Getting Started Window. Code Sharing
Select from the Robotics Functions Palette. View Robotics Downloads
Manually navigate to the online by opening a web browser and entering " ". LabVIEW Robotics Code Exchange ni.com/code/robotics
For more help with finding example VIs, view the LabVIEW Help File: Finding Example VIs.