Feasibility of LabVIEW as a scalable robot programming language

Abstract

LabVIEW1 has long been used as a graphical programming language for test, measurement, and control. LabVIEW's graphical data flow paradigm and tight coupling with hardware make it well suited for data acquisition applications. While robot applications rely on good, reliable hardware interfaces, they also frequently require scalability to multiple heterogeneous targets and complex architectures. This work seeks to test the feasibility of using LabVIEW as a programming language for a complex robot application, using a multi-robot search-and-rescue scenario as a case study.