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Product Description Wrox's Professional Microsoft RoboticsDeveloper 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.
Customer Reviews:
Best book for the jobJuly 8, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of the two textbooks available, Professional MRDS is an excellent reference book for those who need guidance with MRDS. The textbook has a plethora of examples that are easy to grasp and has an excellent code library (available from the website at no cost). In addition, the hands-on attitude of the authors make MRDS a pleasurable experience.
Table of ContentsMay 24, 2008 1 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is not an actual review of the book since I am still waiting for it to arrive. I wanted to post the Table of Contents here to help out others since I did not see one from Amazon...
Foreword. Introduction.
Part I: Robotics Developer Studio Fundamentals.
Chapter 1: Exploring Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.
Chapter 2: Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR).
Chapter 3: Decentralized Software Services (DSS).
Chapter 4: Advanced Service Concepts.
Part II: Simulations.
Chapter 5: The MRDS Visual Simulation Environment.
Chapter 6: Extending the MRDS Visual Simulation Environment.
Chapter 7: Using Orchestration Services to Build a Simulation Scenario.
Chapter 8: Simulating Articulated Entities.
Chapter 9: Adventures in Simulation.
Part III: Visual Programming Language.
Chapter 10: Microsoft Visual Programming Language Basics.
