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{{Infobox software
| name = Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
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| genre = [[Robotics suite]]
| license = Various
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'''Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio''' (Microsoft RDS, '''MRDS''') is a discontinued [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]-based environment for [[robot]] control and [[simulation]] that was aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handled a wide variety of robot hardware. It required the Microsoft [[Windows 7]] operating system or later.
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Features include: a [[visual programming]] tool, [[Microsoft Visual Programming Language]] for creating and debugging robot applications, [[Internet|web-based]] and windows-based interfaces, [[3D computer graphics|3D simulation]] (including [[hardware acceleration]]), easy access to a robot's [[sensor]]s and [[actuator]]s. The primary programming language is [[Visual C Sharp|C#]].
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio includes support for packages to add other services to the suite. Those currently available include Soccer Simulation and Sumo Competition by Microsoft, and a community-developed Maze Simulator, a program to create worlds with walls that can be explored by a virtual [[robot]], and a set of services for [[OpenCV]]
==Components==
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CCR and DSS are also available separately for use in commercial applications that require a high level
of concurrency and/or must be distributed across multiple nodes in a network. This package is called the
==Tools==
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[[File:Mars rover msrds simulation.jpg|300px|alt=MarsRoverSimulation|right|upright=2|Simulated robot and environment in MRDS]]
The tools that allow to develop an MRDS application contain a graphical environment (Microsoft Visual Programming Language : VPL) command line tools allow you to deal with Visual Studio projects (VS Express version is enough) in C#, and 3D simulation tools.
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* Many examples and tutorials are available for the different tools, which permits a fast understanding of MRDS. Several applications have been added to the suite, such as Maze Simulator, or Soccer Simulation which is developed by [[Microsoft]].
* The [[Kinect]] sensor can be used on a robot in the RDS environment. RDS also includes a simulated Kinect sensor. The Kinect Services for RDS are licensed for both commercial and non-commercial use. They depend on the
==Notable applications==
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* The complication and overhead required to run MRDS prompted [[Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering]] to convert their [[Prospect 12]] system from MRDS to [[IPC++]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pave.mycpanel.princeton.edu/wp/?page_id=142 |title=Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering -Section Software |publisher=Pave.mycpanel.princeton.edu |access-date=2019-04-08}}</ref>
* The main RDS4 website was last updated on 2012-06-29. (In fact, the product no longer exists).
==Microsoft Robotics and the Future==
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|year = 2008
|isbn = 978-0-7356-2432-0}}
* {{cite book
|last = Johns
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|year = 2008
|isbn = 978-0-470-14107-6}}
* {{cite book
|last = Kang
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