Microsoft Robotics Studio
Developed by	Microsoft in association with the community
Latest release	Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP July / July 18, 2008
OS	Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE 5.0, Windows CE 6.0
Type	Robotics suite
License	CTP
Website	Official Webpage

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware.

Features include: a visual programming tool, Microsoft Visual Programming Language, for creating and debugging robot applications, web-based and windows-based interfaces, 3D simulation (including hardware acceleration), a lightweight services-oriented runtime, easy access to a robot's sensors and actuators via a .NET-based concurrent library implementation, and support for a number of languages including C# and Visual Basic .NET, JScript, and IronPython.

Microsoft Robotic Studio includes support for packages to add other services to the suite. Those currently available include Soccer Simulation and Sumo Competition by Microsoft, and a community-developed Maze Simulator, a program to create worlds with walls that can be explored by a virtual robot.

The studio ships with a simulator that uses PhysX by NVIDIA.

Notable Applications

• Princeton University's DARPA Urban Grand Challenge autonomous car entry was programmed entirely with MRDS. ^[1]
• MySpace uses MRDS for a non-robotic application in the back end of their site. ^[2]
• Indiana University uses MRDS in a non-robotic application to coordinate a high-performance computing network. ^[3]

Versions

• The most current version is Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP July

Supported Robots

An iRobot Create robot inside Microsoft Robotic Studio's Visual Simulation Environment

• Aldebaran Robotics Nao Official WebSite
• CoroWare's CoroBot Official Website
• Lego Mindstorms NXT Official Website
• Lego Mindstorms RCX (Support dropped in latest version)
• iRobot Create
• KUKA Robotics Educational Framework
• Boe-Bot
• Robosoft's robots Official WebSite
• Parallax Scribbler robot. Through IPRE.
• fischertechnik FT16
• Kondo KHR1
• Segway RMP by: Ben Axelrod

See also

• Player Project - used in research and post-secondary education (open source and free)^[4]
• Webots
• Concurrency and Coordination Runtime
• Player Project
• URBI
• Robotic mapping

References

External links

• Microsoft MSDN robotics pages
• Microsoft Robotics Studio: An Introduction
• Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime – An Introduction
• Microsoft Robotics Studio Community - Turkey
• Microsoft robotics newsgroup from Google Groups
• Channel9 wiki page about Microsoft Robotics Studio
• Maze Simulator official website
• www.Conscious-Robots.com pages for MSRS (Microsoft Robotics Studio)
• Trevor Taylor's MSRS Code Page
• PhysX by Ageia Home
• Robubox's MSRS tutorials and simulator samples Official Website

This robotics-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.