Robotics Week 6 - Programming in Investigator
Robotics Week 6 - Programming in Investigator
This week you will begin to design your own programs.
What to Do
- Start robolab and make sure your robot can communicate with the computer system
- Under the Inventor panel, choose Inventor level 4. Level 4 will give you all of the tools that are available - the lower levels hide some of the tools.
- Now, choose Amusement Park - Ghost Ride. It doesn't actually matter which you choose as we will be creating a new file anyway.
- Now, choose New VI from the file menu. This will place a new, blank, Diagram Panel onto the screen. Go back to the other Diagram Panel and close it by clicking on the X in the top right hand corner - choose Don't Save.
- You wont be able to see all of the tool palletes yet, so choose Show Tool Pallete from the Window menu. You should now have both the fundtion and the tool palletes.
function pallete
tool pallete
- By using the arrow tool, you can click on various items on the function pallete and drag them onto your work area.
- Use the wire tool to wire the items together. Note : You need to wire up from the green traffic lights, through each item, and end up at the Red traffic lights.
