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| Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
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Author: Kyle Johns, Trevor Taylor
Publisher: Wrox
Release Date: 2008-05-19
ISBN-10: 0470141077
ISBN-13: 9780470141076
List Price: $49.99
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Wrox's Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer 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.
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| Customer Rating: | | 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 Contents
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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.
Chapter 11: Visually Programming Robots.
Chapter 12: Visual Programming Examples.
Part IV: Robotics Hardware.
Chapter 13: Using MRDS with Robotics Hardware.
Chapter 14: Remotely Controlling a Mobile Robot.
Chapter 15: Using a Robotic Arm.
Chapter 16: Autonomous Robots.
Chapter 17: Writing New Hardware Services.
Index. |
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