Microsoft Roboics

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Microsoft Roboics

• 9/22/2007
• Shawn Weisfeld
• Orlando .NET Users Group

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About Me

• President, Orlando .NET Users Group
• FL Membership Mentor, International .NET
  Association
• Sr. System Integration Analyst, Lockheed Martin
  Enterprise Information Systems
• C.NET Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

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About Me

• 2 Time Community-Credit winner
• Adjunct Professor, Florida Institute of
  Technology
• Adjunct Professor, Seminole Community College
• Email shawn_at_shawnweisfeld.com
• Blog www.shawnweisfeld.com

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Microsoft Robotics Studio

• End-to-End Robotics Development Platform
• Build and debug using Visual Studio!
• Lightweight services-oriented runtime
• Scalable and extensible platform

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Microsoft Robotics Studio Runtime

• The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR)
• enables coordination of messages without the use
  of manual threading, locks, semaphores
• Decentralized System Services (DSS)
• a service hosting environment and a set of basic
  services facilitating tasks such as debugging,
  logging, monitoring, security, discovery, and
  data persistence.

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The simplest application
Orchestration Service (Controller)
Instructs
Subscribes
Actuator Service (Motor)
Sensor Service (IR, Bumper, Compass)
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A more complex example
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MRS details

• Each object is implemented as a services
• A partnership is created to compose a set of
  services into a working model

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Demo 1iRobot Drive by Wire

• dsshost /p50000 /t50001 /m"samples\config\iRobo
  t.DriveDashboard.manifest.xml"

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Demo 2Physics Simulation
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Demo 3Can you find me?

• dsshost /port50000 /t50001 /manifest"samples\co
  nfig\FollowerSim.manifest.xml"

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Demo 4Robot Sumo!!!!

• Dsshost -port50000 -tcpport50001
  -manifest"samples\config\SimulatedSumoReferee.Man
  ifest.xml"

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Contact

• Presentation downloads available from
• www.shawnweisfeld.com
• Email shawn_at_shawnweisfeld.com
• Blog / Web Site www.shawnweisfeld.com

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Resources

• My Blog
• http//www.shawnweisfeld.com
• MS Robotics
• http//www.microsoft.com/robotics
• IRobot
• http//www.irobot.com