Microsoft Robotics Studio is an end-to-end robotics development platform that addresses shared challenges in configuring sensors and actuators, coordinating them asynchronously, and monitoring, interacting with and debugging robots. It provides lightweight runtime services for concurrency, coordination and making state observable. The platform is scalable and supports remote execution across compute units for connected or autonomous robot operation.

1. Microsoft Robotics Studio Sahithya B Microsoft Student Partner PESIT www.bdns.in

2. Next Generation Robotics…!

3. Requirements for developing a ROBOT Sensors Controller Motors Wheels Power System Base IROBOT CREATE Big Trak CoroBot HERO (robot) Haro (character) I-bot Lego Mindstorms Programmable Cricket Robotis Bioloid Stiquito Turtle (robot) Vex

4. Shared Challenges… Input from industry, hobbyists, academia, research, … Configuring sensors and actuators in running system Coordinating sensors and actuators asynchronously Monitoring/Interacting/Debugging running system Development when access to robot is limited Re-use of components across hardware platforms and devices

5. Microsoft Robotics Studio Addressing the Challenges End-to-end robotics development platform. – authoring tools(VPL), Simulation….. Lightweight services-oriented runtime - (CCR-Concurrency and Coordination RuntimeDSS-Decentralized System Services) Scalable, extensible platform . - (Visual C#,Visual Basic, Jscript, IronPython….)

6. Microsoft Robotics Studio Key runtime features Concurrency and coordination runtime Makes writing and managing asynchronous processes easy Avoids need to understand manual threading, etc. Decentralized system services Makes state observable, easily accessible Provides for reusability and failure tolerance Supports remote/distributed execution Makes the programming model scalable

7. Architecture of Robotic System Perceive – Sensors (Touch, Light, Ultrasonic, etc) Make Decisions – Logic (Computation) Take Action – Actuators Interact – User Interface and Communication Power Unit Motor LOGIC CONTROLLER Infrared Detector (Sensor) Actuators Bumper (Sensor) Motor Bumper (Sensor)

8. Communication Connected operation (remote execution on PC) Disconnected autonomous operation (with optional networked monitoring) Distributed execution (execution across compute units)

9. Microsoft Robotics Studio package Runtime Concurrency Services infrastructure Services and Samples Samples and tutorials Robot services Robot models Technology services Microsoft Robotics Studio Authoring Tools Simulation Tool Visual Programming Language

10. DEMO

11. One more thing…

12. Laws of Robotics Law 1: A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Law 2: A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with a higher order law Law 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with a higher order law Issac Asimov, 1941

13. Competitions in INDIA http://www.robotix.in/ http://www.techfest.org/ http://www.kurukshetra.org http://www.robofest.org.my/ http://www.pragyan.org

14. Learning [email_address] www.isrikanth.com www.microsoft.com/robotics http://www.botmag.com/ http://robots.net/ http://www.robochamps.com/

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