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Overview
The goal of the Microsoft® Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications. As a platform, our intent is also to enable third parties to supply support for new hardware, technologies, and tools, just as Microsoft® Windows provides a platform for others to bring their products and technologies to the community of PC users. So while we may populate our platform with some of our own contributions, those should not be considered exclusive to tools or libraries provided by other parties looking to provide interesting technologies for this platform.
The Microsoft® Robotics Studio delivers three areas of software:
A scalable, extensible runtime architecture that can span a wide variety of hardware and devices. The programming interface can be used to address robots using 8-bit or 16-bit processors as well as 32-bit systems with multi-core processors and devices from simple touch sensors to laser distance finding devices.
A set of useful tools that make programming and debugging robot applications scenarios easier. These include a high quality visual simulation environment that uses the Ageia Technologies™ PhysX™ engine.
A set of useful technology libraries services samples to help developers get started with writing robot applications.
Our development environment runs on the platforms listed in the section "System Requirements". It can be used to support robots that support these platforms as well as robots that can be remotely controlled from a PC running a supported platform. The remote control can for example be through a serial port, Bluetooth®, RF or Wi-Fi. We provide information that can be used by hardware or software vendors to make their products compatible with our development platform.
We are pleased to present this community technical preview (CTP). As a preview this represents an early release not yet intended for commercial use, however, it should enable you to try out and see what we are working on. Similarly, this CTP does not include all the components we hope to deliver, so there may be subsequent updates we provide. Also as a preview, some of what here may be subject to change before commercial release.
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System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
To use the Microsoft® Visual Programming Language included in this release, you MUST install the specific Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 CTP available as an additional download in the section "Files in this Download".
To use Microsoft® Robotics Studio with .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK):
.NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x86)
To use Microsoft Robotics Studio with Visual Studio 2005:
Any of the Visual 2005 Express Editions, Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition
Important: This release of Microsoft® Robotics Studio is designed only for use with 32-bit editions of the platforms listed above. Installation of Microsoft® Robotics Studio on operating systems other than the ones listed above may have unpredictable results, including the loss of data.
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5692e98d-594e-41d3-831c-0168b9fd694d&DisplayLang=en#filelist
The goal of the Microsoft® Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications. As a platform, our intent is also to enable third parties to supply support for new hardware, technologies, and tools, just as Microsoft® Windows provides a platform for others to bring their products and technologies to the community of PC users. So while we may populate our platform with some of our own contributions, those should not be considered exclusive to tools or libraries provided by other parties looking to provide interesting technologies for this platform.
The Microsoft® Robotics Studio delivers three areas of software:
A scalable, extensible runtime architecture that can span a wide variety of hardware and devices. The programming interface can be used to address robots using 8-bit or 16-bit processors as well as 32-bit systems with multi-core processors and devices from simple touch sensors to laser distance finding devices.
A set of useful tools that make programming and debugging robot applications scenarios easier. These include a high quality visual simulation environment that uses the Ageia Technologies™ PhysX™ engine.
A set of useful technology libraries services samples to help developers get started with writing robot applications.
Our development environment runs on the platforms listed in the section "System Requirements". It can be used to support robots that support these platforms as well as robots that can be remotely controlled from a PC running a supported platform. The remote control can for example be through a serial port, Bluetooth®, RF or Wi-Fi. We provide information that can be used by hardware or software vendors to make their products compatible with our development platform.
We are pleased to present this community technical preview (CTP). As a preview this represents an early release not yet intended for commercial use, however, it should enable you to try out and see what we are working on. Similarly, this CTP does not include all the components we hope to deliver, so there may be subsequent updates we provide. Also as a preview, some of what here may be subject to change before commercial release.
Top of page
System Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003, Web Edition; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
To use the Microsoft® Visual Programming Language included in this release, you MUST install the specific Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 CTP available as an additional download in the section "Files in this Download".
To use Microsoft® Robotics Studio with .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK):
.NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x86)
To use Microsoft Robotics Studio with Visual Studio 2005:
Any of the Visual 2005 Express Editions, Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition
Important: This release of Microsoft® Robotics Studio is designed only for use with 32-bit editions of the platforms listed above. Installation of Microsoft® Robotics Studio on operating systems other than the ones listed above may have unpredictable results, including the loss of data.
Φυσικά είναι δωρεάν:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5692e98d-594e-41d3-831c-0168b9fd694d&DisplayLang=en#filelist