FIRST Robotics Competition Control System

Welcome to the FIRST® Robotics Competition Control System Documentation! This documentation will be the Official FIRST Robotics Competition Control System documentation for the 2020 season and beyond. An overview of the changes from 2019 to 2020 is available on the New for 2020 document.

Note

It’s advised to continue using ScreenSteps until the official WPILib release for 2020.

Programming and Electrical Basics

• Getting Started
  • Introduction
  • FRC Software Component Overview
  • FRC Control System Hardware Overview
  • Offline Installation Preparation
  • WPILib Installation Guide
  • Installing LabVIEW for FRC (LabVIEW only)
  • Installing the FRC Update Suite
  • How to Wire an FRC Robot
  • Imaging your roboRIO
  • Programming your Radio
  • Updating and Configuring Pneumatics Control Module and Power Distribution Panel
• Getting Started with a Benchtop Robot
  • Creating your Benchtop Test Program (LabVIEW)
  • Creating your Benchtop Test Program (C++/Java)
  • Running your Benchtop Test Program

2020 Beta Testing

• Beta Getting Started
• Beta Tasks

WPILib Programming Basics

• WPILib Overview
• FRC LabVIEW Programming
• Actuators
• Sensors
• CAN Devices
• Basic Programming
• Support Resources

API Docs

• WPILib Java API Docs
• WPILib C++ API Docs

WPILib Software Tools

• Driverstation
• Shuffleboard
• SmartDashboard
• Path Following
• RobotBuilder
• Robot Simulation
• Robot Characterization

WPILib Advanced Programming

• Vision Processing
• Command-Based Programming
• [Deprecated] Command Based Programming
• Kinematics and Odometry
• NetworkTables
• roboRIO

WPILib Hardware

• Hardware - Basics
• Sensors

Robot Networking

• Networking Introduction
• Networking Utilities

Contributing

• Contribution Guidelines
• Style Guide
• Build Instructions
• Top Contributors

Issues

• Report an Issue