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First impression FBP made on me while playing with Lego edition of LabView. I still prefer CPS actor based style to program robots but I found that most of protocol handling can be nicely decomposed in FBP.

This is Umlet (http://www.umlet.com/) palette which you can copy to ../Umlet/palettes/FBP.uxf and use it for your own design.

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