Status Tab

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The Status tab shows detailed information for each robot linked to FMS; this information is also displayed on the Field Monitor used by the FTA and FTA Assistant (FTAA). The same data is collected for all stations.

Note

This section only covers high-level information, as the display is covered in full detail in the Web Field Monitor section. Within FMS only the “detailed” version of the Field Monitor is available. For the “Simple” version please use the web based Field Monitor.

  1. Station and Team number (in the format station - team)

  2. DS - Driver Station

  3. BWU - Bandwidth Utilization/Consumption and airtime information

  4. Radio - Status of the radio on the robot

  5. RIO - Status of the roboRIO on the robot

  6. Battery - Battery voltage reported by the Robot (12-13 is normally a fully charged battery, under ~9 may result in visible performance problems).The background of this cell will be a line indicating relative battery voltage over a short sample amount of time.

  7. Status - The state and mode of the robot

  8. Trip Time - average time required to send a message to the robot and have the robot respond (this is basically a ping). Units are in milliseconds. Usually under 10 for most Robots.

  9. Packets - indicates the number of packets dropped in the DS-to-Robot link. Typically there are some lost packets. In a very tame wireless environment, this number will be less than 100 (simulated environment results in large value in example photo)

  10. Background Color of Row:

    • “Clear” - Robot connected and ready (or running)

    • Yellow - Robot not connected (A-Stopped, E-Stopped, or any item on the row is “Red”, like DS)

    • Brown - Bypassed

    • Says “Move” - Team is in the wrong station and should “Move” (usually, stations 1 and 3 are reversed)

    • Says “Waiting” - Team is not in this match (“Wrong Match”) or the previous match has not been finalized and therefore the DS is “Waiting”

Note

It is important to remember that items can only “go green” if the items to the left of it are already “green.” For instance, a roboRIO will not be green unless the Radio is already green. This aids in the speed of troubleshooting.