Baxter Quick Start

If you have a Baxter Research Robot, this package has a number of vis prebuilt to allow quick access to a bunch of functionality. To get started, open _ROSDefinition.vi and change the ROS Master control to the IP of your robot. Don't include protocol information (http, https). There is a known bug in Windows where *.local IP addresses will break some of the TCP functionality.

After that, take a look at the examples in ~/Devices/Baxter/BaxterExamples, which show some quick uses of prebuilt functionality for Baxter.

Then look in the Baxtervis folder. All of the vis there are either direct publish,subscribe, or service calls or wrappers for them to provide certain functionality. DigitalIOWrapper.vi, for example, subscribes to all the components you provide to it and then outputs an array with elements whose value has changed since the last run. Meanwhile, Nod_Head.vi just publishes a boolean on the single topic.

Image Processing with Baxter Vis

If using Baxter's cameras, the included vis make use of a vision package previously developed at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach which can be downloaded at http://www.legoengineering.com/image-processing-in-labview/