Driver Station App

Not Shuffleboard or Elastic. Just a modern web app hosted in Electron for the driver station desktop customized for the current season's game and Lady Cans robot capbilities.

Note: more complete configuration and usage documentation is TBD

Views (2024.1.2 - Crescendo)

Dashboard (primary notebook screen docked to NI driver station app)

• Robot, battery and game status indicators
• Auto command selection and field traveral visulaization
• Mechanism reset status indicator for robot safety
• Drive train status and performance metrics
• Robot localization and vision telemetry with AprilTag acquisition and pose estimation
• Targeting calculation graph and status for linear interpolation between target distance and launcher elevation
• Discreet robot configuration settings for drive and other subsystems

HUD (heads-up display on secondary monitor for drive team)

• Game piece intake status indicator with sensor values and internal position
• External game piece object detection and intake alignment indicator
• Floor-facing camera stream with object detection overlay
• Driver station camera stream with fisheye view for driver station wall observation
• Current match time overlay
• Scoring target alignment visualization based on real-time localization data
• Launcher subsystems status and performance indicators for elevation and speed

Controller Map

Data Explorer

Demo

Tech Stack

• Electron
• TypeScript
• Svelte
• IBM Carbon Components
• msgpack
• ws (Websockets)
• Rollup
• Node / npm

Dependencies

• Volta

Install / Configuration

• volta install node
• npm install

Build / Run

• Run robot simulation in local environment OR run live robot and connect remotely
• Development
  • npm run dev:local (builds and runs the app locally for development with live UI refresh on edit/save connecting to localhost)
• Binary packaging and distribution
  • npm run package (builds and packages Windows portable executable file for simple copy distribution to driver station)
• Other
  • See scripts section in package.json file for more options