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{{Infobox software

| name = Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

| logo = [[File:MRDSlogo.png]]

| caption = Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

| released = {{Start date and age|2006|12|18}}

| latest release version=4.0

| latest_release_version = 4.0

| latest_release_datelatest =release date={{Start date and age|2012|303|808}}

| developer = [[Microsoft]] in association with the community

| operating system=

| operating_system =

* Tested on Windows 8 Consumer Preview but not supported until final release of Windows 8

* [[Windows XP SP2]], [[Windows Vista|Vista]], [[Windows 7]], [[Windows Embedded 7]], [[Windows Server 2003|Server 2003]] up to 2008 R3

* [[Windows CE 5.0|CE 5.0]], [[Windows CE 6.0|CE 6.0]] up to [[Windows Server 2008 R2]]

| genre = [[Robotics suite]]

| license = Various

}}

'''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 requiredrequires thea Microsoft [[Windows 7]] operating system or later.

RDS is based on CCR ([[Concurrency and Coordination Runtime]] (CCR): a [[.NET Framework|.NET]]-based concurrent [[Library (computing)|library]] implementation for managing asynchronous parallel tasks. This technique involves using message-passing and a lightweight services-oriented runtime, DSS (Decentralized Software Services (DSS), which allows the orchestration oforchestrating multiple services to achieve complex behaviors.

Features include: a [[visual programming]] tool, [[Microsoft Visual Programming Language]] for(VPL) to creatingcreate and debuggingdebug 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 (programming language)|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]].

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[[File:Reference Platform Robot.jpg|thumb|Example of a Reference Platform Robot]]

ThereRDS arehas four main components in RDS:

* CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR)

* DSS (Decentralized Software Services (DSS)

* VPL (Visual Programming Language (VPL)

* VSE (Visual Simulation Environment (VSE)

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 CCR and DSS Toolkit.

of concurrency and/or must be distributed across multiple nodes in a network. This package is called the CCR and DSS Toolkit.

==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 developdeveloping an MRDS application contain a graphical environment (Microsoft Visual Programming Language : (VPL)) command line tools allow you to dealworking with Visual Studio projects (VS Express version is enough) in C#, and 3D simulation tools.

* [[Microsoft Visual Programming Language|Visual Programming Language]] is a graphical development environment that uses a service and activity catalog.

** They can interact graphically, a service or an activity is represented by a block that has inputs and outputs that just need toonly be dragged from the catalog to thea diagram.

** Linking can be done with the mouse, it allows you to definedefining if signals are simultaneous or not, permits you toallows performperforming operations on transmitted values...

** VPL also allows you to generategenerating the code of new "macro" services from diagrams created by users.

** ItIn isVPL, possibleit inis VPLpossible to easily customize services for different hardware elements.

* RDS 3D simulation environment allows you to simulatesimulating the behavior of robots in a virtual world using NVIDIA PhysX technology (3D engine originally written by Ageia) that includes advanced physics.

[[File:Simulated Reference Platform Robot.png|thumb|A simulated robot with a Kinect sensor]]

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==Notable applications==

* [[Princeton University]]'s [[DARPA Grand Challenge|DARPA Urban Grand Challenge]] [[autonomous car]] entry was programmed with MRDS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/TechPapers/Princeton_University.pdf |title=Technical Paper for the Darpa Challenge |access-date=2011-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331052411/http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/TechPapers/Princeton_University.pdf |archive-date=2010-03-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* [[MySpace]] uses MRDS's parallel computing foundation libraries, CCR and DSS, for a non-robotic application in the back end of their site.<ref name="sdtimes.com">{{cite webnews |last=Worthington |first=David |date=August 1, 2008 |url=http://www.sdtimes.com/MICROSOFT_S_SHIFT_TO_PARALLEL_COMPUTING/About_CLOUDCOMPUTING_and_MULTICORE_and_MICROSOFT/32651 |title=SDTimes On The Web, Microsoft's shift to parallel computing, By|work=SDTimes Davidon Worthington,the August 1, 2008Web |access-date=2008-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090715061245/http://www.sdtimes.com/MICROSOFT_S_SHIFT_TO_PARALLEL_COMPUTING/About_CLOUDCOMPUTING_and_MULTICORE_and_MICROSOFT/32651 |archive-date=2009-07-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* [[Indiana University]] uses MRDS in a non-robotic application to coordinate a high-performance computing network.<ref name="sdtimes.com"/>

* In 2008 [[Microsoft]] launched a simulated [[robotics]] competition named [[RoboChamps]] using MRDS, four challenges were available : maze, sumo, urban, and Mars rover. the simulated environment and robots used by the competition were created by [[SimplySim]] and the competition was sponsored by [[Kia]] Motors|KIA Motors]]

* The 2009 [[robotics]] and [[algorithm]] section of the [[Imagine Cup]] [[software]] competition uses MRDS visual simulation environment. The challenges of this competition were also developed by [[SimplySim]] and are improved versions of the [[RoboChamps]] challenges.

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==Microsoft Robotics and the Future==

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio has not been updated or patched since version 4.0, which was released on March 8, 2012.

On September 22, 2014, as part of Microsoft's restructuring plan, the Robotics division of Microsoft Research was suspended, according to a tweet from Ashley Feniello, a principal developer at Microsoft Robotics division of MSR (Microsoft Research (MSR). It is now highly unlikely that MRDS will ever be updated again, however forum members (MVPs) may still offer limited support.<ref>{{cite webnews |titlelast=Feniello |first=Ashley |date=20 September 2014 |title=Sadly, the Microsoft robotics team has been shut down. My card key stops working tomorrow afternoon... :-/ |url = https://twitter.com/AshleyFen/status/513392391467048960 |website =Twitter Twitter|access-date = 2016-01-20|last = Feniello|first = Ashley|date = 20 Sep 2014}}</ref>

==See also==

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* [[Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit]]

* [[Arduino]]

* [[ROS (Robot Operating System)|Robot Operating System]] (ROS)

==References==

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==Further reading==

* {{cite book

|last = Morgan

|first = Sarah

|year = 2008

|title = Programming Microsoft Robotics Studio

|publisher title=Programming [[Microsoft Press]]Robotics Studio

|publisher=[[Microsoft Press]]

|year = 2008

|isbn = 978-0-7356-2432-0}}

* {{cite book

|last1=Johns |first1=Kyle

|last = Johns

|author2last2=Taylor, |first2=Trevor

|first = Kyle

|year = 2008

|author2=Taylor, Trevor

|title = Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

|publisher = [[John Wiley & Sons]]

|isbn = 978-0-470-14107-6}}

|year = 2008

|isbn = 978-0-470-14107-6}}

* {{cite book

|last1=Kang |first1=Shih-Chung

|last = Kang

|first last2= Shih-ChungChang |author2first2=Chang, Wei-Tze |author3last3=Gu, |first3=Kai-Yuan |author4last4=Chi, |first4=Hung-Lin

|year = 2011

|title = Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

|title =Robot ProgrammingDevelopment Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

|publisher = Chapman and Hall/CRC Press

|year = 2011

|isbn = 978-1-4398-2165-7}}

==External links==

{{external links|section|date=March 2019}}

* {{Official website|http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/}}

* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/ Microsoft MSDN robotics pages]

* [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483024.aspx Microsoft Robotics Studio: An Introduction]

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* [http://mrdssamples.codeplex.com/ MRDS Codeplex Samples] (MRDS 2008 R3)

* [http://promrds.codeplex.com/ Additional Samples from Professional Robotics Developer Studio textbook] (MRDS 2008 R3)

* [http://www.roboticsnedir.com Microsoft Robotics Studio Community -– Turkey]

* [http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.msroboticsstudio/topics Microsoft robotics newsgroup from Google Groups]

* [http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSRoboticsStudio Channel9 wiki page about Microsoft Robotics Studio]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070922084213/http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/robotics-studio/index.php www.Conscious-Robots.com pages for MSRS (Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS)]

* [http://www.ageia.com/ PhysX by Ageia Home]

* Robubox's MSRS tutorials and simulator samples [http://www.robubox.com Official Website]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071123112403/http://simplysim.net/ SimplySim : MRDS 3D simulation company]

* [http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=22 Imagine Cup 2009 : Robotics & Algorithm]

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