Microsoft Robotic Developer Simulation Meeting

Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (RDS) comes with a Visual Simulation Environment (VSE) which is a virtual world that obeys the laws of physics. Developers use VSE to run their robots in a virtual world using the same code used in the real world. VSE allows you to do this because the entities that you place in VSE look, behave, act, and communicate the same way that real hardware components do.

You can use it to test advance algorithms such as system control and AI without buying any hardware. Once you get your code working in VSE, then you use the same code to control your robot using real robot hardware.

For example, if you want to build a robot using various sensors such as a laser range finder, camera, and bumpers located on various parts of a vehicle and you wanted to develop code to use the data from these sensors to control the vehicle as it navigates through a small town, you can use Microsoft RDS (Robotic Developer Studio) and VSE to build and test all your code and see if it really works as expected before buying and testing in a real robot vehicle.

This meeting will show you the basics for creating your virtual world and some of the tools and services available. The meeting is expect to be 2 hours and all are welcome.