Microsoft Robotics StudioSahithya B

Microsoft Student Partner

PESIT

www.bdns.in

Next Generation Robotics…!

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Requirements for developing a ROBOT

• Sensors• Controller• Motors• Wheels• Power System• Base

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IROBOT CREATEBig TrakCoroBotHERO (robot)Haro (character)I-botLego MindstormsProgrammable CricketRobotis BioloidStiquitoTurtle (robot)Vex

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

Microsoft Robotics StudioAddressing 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….)

Microsoft Robotics StudioKey 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

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)

Communication

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Connected operation(remote execution on PC)

Disconnectedautonomous operation (with optional networked monitoring)

Distributed execution(execution across compute units)

Microsoft Robotics Studio package

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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

DEMO

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One more thing…

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

Competitions in INDIA

• http://www.robotix.in/

• http://www.techfest.org/

• http://www.kurukshetra.org

• http://www.robofest.org.my/

• http://www.pragyan.org

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Learning

• sahithya06@student-partners.com

• www.isrikanth.com

• www.microsoft.com/robotics

• http://www.botmag.com/

• http://robots.net/

• http://www.robochamps.com/

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