Professional Microsoft Developer Robotics Studio
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Wrox's Professional Microsoft Robotics Studio is one of the first guides to
Microsoft's new platform for visualizing and programming robotics applications.
Written by the founding architect of the product, Professional Microsoft Robotics
Studio is heavy on examples making this a hands-on guide that will get readers
building robotics applications quickly using 3 case-study robots: an indoor
security robot, winning Magellan competitor and a chess-playing robotic arm.
Topics include:
• Common Concurrency Runtime
• Sending and Receiving Messages
• Building and Accessing Services
• Using a browser and the Internet as the UI for a robot
• Using supported hardware and integrating new hardware
• Simulating the real world for robotic interactions
• Extending the simulation environment
• Deploying to hardware
• Using the Visual Programming Language
and more.
Source code and online support at Wrox.com.
Table of Contents
I. Robotics Developer Studio Fundamentals.
1. Exploring Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.
2. Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR).
3. Decentralized System Services.
4. Advanced Service Concepts.
II. Simulations.
5. The MRDS Visual Simulation Environment.
6. Extending the MRDS Visual Simulation Environment.
7. Using Orchestration Services to Build a Simulation Scenario.
8. Simulating Articulated Entities.
9. Adventures in Simulation.
III. Visual Programming Language.
10. Microsoft Visual Programming Language Basics.
11. Visually Programming Robots.
12. Visual Programming Examples.
IV. Robotics Hardware.
13. Using MRDS with Robotics Hardware.
14. Remotely Controlling a Mobile Robot.
15. Using a Robotic Arm.
16. Autonomous Robots.
17. Writing New Hardware Services.
Index.
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