Microsoft Robotics Studio: An Introduction
The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics Studio environment include: end-to-end Robotics Development Platform, lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable and extensible platform. |
Microsoft Visual Programming Language Overview
Microsoft Robotics Studio targets seasoned programmers as well as newcomers and hobbyists. In addition to programming in traditional .Net languages you can use Microsoft Visual Programming Language to build your robotics application using a graphical data-flow-based programming model. VPL is targeted for beginner programmers with a basic understanding of concepts like variables and logic. However, VPL is not limited to novices. The compositional nature of the programming language may appeal to more advanced programmers for rapid prototyping or code development. |
Microsoft Robotics Studio Simulation Overview
Microsoft Robotics Studio targets a wide audience in an attempt to accelerate robotics development and adoption. An important part of the offering is the simulation runtime. It was immediately obvious that PC and Console gaming has paved the way when it comes to affordable, widely usable, robotics simulation. Games rely on photo-realistic visualizations with advanced physics simulation running within real time constraints. This was a perfect starting point for our effort. |
Introduction to the Microsoft Robotics Studio Application Model
The Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime provides a runtime environment that has been designed to accommodate the needs of a broad set of robotics applications. To meet these requirements, the Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime provides a service oriented architecture which combines key aspects of traditional Web-based architecture with pieces from Web Services to provide a highly flexible and lightweight, distributed application model. Read more about the runtime environment. |
Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime – An Introduction
The Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime is a lightweight runtime written for CLR 2.0 that provides support for creating, hosting, and managing robotics applications. |