Microsoft? Robotics Developer Studio 4 is a
freely available .NET-based programming environment for building robotics
applications. It can be used by both professional and non-professional
developers as well as hobbyists.
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4.0.261.0 |
3/6/2012 |
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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4.exe |
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Microsoft? Robotics Developer Studio 4 enables
hobbyists and professional or non-professional developers to create
robotics applications targeting a wide range of scenarios. This release is
an update that has the functionality of the previous RDS 2008 R3 Standard
Edition with the addition of support for the Kinect sensor and a
defined
Reference
Platform
, also referred to as MARK (Mobile Autonomous
Robot using Kinect).
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio can support a
broad set of robotics platforms by either running directly on the
platform (if it has an embedded PC running Windows) or controlling the
robot from a Windows PC through a communication channel such as Wi-Fi or
Bluetooth?.
In addition to providing support for Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 provides a
Visual Programming Language (VPL) which allows developers to create
applications simply by dragging and dropping components onto a canvas and
wiring them together.
The powerful Visual Simulation Environment (VSE)
provides a high-fidelity simulation environment powered by NVIDIA? PhysX?
engine for running game-quality 3D simulations with real-world physics
interactions.
To help developers getting started, Robotics
Developer Studio contains extensive
Documentation
and a large set of samples and tutorials that
illustrate how to write applications ranging from simple "Hello Robot" to
complex applications that simultaneously run on multiple robots.
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Supported Operating System
Windows 7
Robotics Developer Studio
requires Windows 7.
In addition to using Robotics
Developer Studio as a stand-alone development environment, it can be used
with any of the Visual Studio 2010 Editions, including the Express
Edition. Note that you should install Visual Studio
before
Robotics Developer Studio so
that the New Service Wizard installs correctly.
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Important:
Make sure you have the latest service pack and
critical updates for Windows 7. To find recent security updates, visit
Windows Update.
- Install the version of Visual Studio 2010 with C# if you plan to write
new services for RDS
- Install Kinect for Windows
SDK V1
- Install Silverlight 4.0 SDK
- Click the Download button on this page to start the download
- Do one of the following:
- To start the installation immediately, click Run.
- To save the download to your computer for installation at a later
time, click Save. (Recommended)
- To cancel the installation, click Cancel.
- Answer the prompts. Note that the CCR and DSS Runtime will be
installed first as well as some pre-requisites. RDS requires .NET 4.0
but does not install it because this comes with Visual Studio. If you
want to remove RDS later, you must also remove the CCR and DSS Runtime
afterwards.
- When the installation is complete, look in the Start Menu under
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 and run Build All
Samples. This is a separate manual step that takes several
minutes.
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RDS 4 is an upgrade to RDS
2008 R3, but it install into a separate folder. If you already have RDS
2008 R3, then RDS 4 will install side-by-side. However, the Security
Model for RDS 4 is different. Please read the Release Notes for more
information. For an overview of RDS 4 see the
Datasheet
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