Programming robots without robots–Using the Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio, the Visual Programming Language and the included simulation environment

amazedsaint's .net journal - Hobby Programming – Creating your first robotic simulation using Microsoft Robotic Dev Studio and Visual Programming Language

“Preface

This is a quick introduction towards starting your life with Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (RDS) and Microsoft Visual Programming Language (MVPL) for creating simple robotic simulations. This is intended to be an ‘absolute beginner’s guide’ to RDS.

In fact, I just started playing with RDS after some inspiration from Ramaprasanna during Kerala DevCon 2010 - and it is fun. And the objective of this post is to share the fun, mainly from a hobby programming perspective.

As a pre-requisite, for doing the hands own instructions below - you may need to download and install Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio 2008 R3 – The installation should be pretty simple and easy.

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Now, the fun part.

Your First Simulation

So, Let us create a quick simulation, using the Microsoft Visual Programming Language environment.

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Been a while since I’ve mentioned the Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (RDS) and come on, there’s few cooler things than robots! Smile

The above post is a simple walk-through of using the RDS and Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL) and quickly gets you playing in the virtual environment.

What’s better than writing/building virtual robot tanks in .Net and having them battle it out? Having them battle Java virtual tanks!

Free “Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio” eBook (reg-ware, Copyright 2008, for MSRS v1.5)
"An Introduction to Programming Robots with Microsoft Robotics Studio"
Learn to Master your Inner Robot - Introductory Courseware for Microsoft Robotics Studio
MSDN Webcast: Robotics: Programming Lego Mindstorms Using Visual Basic 2005 Express (Level 100)