Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox's Professional Microsoft Robotics?Developer Studio is one of the first guides to Microsoft's new platform for visualizing and programming robotics applications. Written by the founding architect of the product, Professional Microsoft Robotics Studio is heavy on examples making this a hands-on guide that will get readers building robotics applications quickly using 3 case-study robots: an indoor security robot, winning Magellan competitor and a chess-playing robotic arm.

Topics include:

• Common Concurrency Runtime
• Sending and Receiving Messages
• Building and Accessing Services
• Using a browser and the Internet as the UI for a robot
• Using supported hardware and integrating new hardware
• Simulating the real world for robotic interactions
• Extending the simulation environment
• Deploying to hardware
• Using the Visual Programming Language
• and more.

Source code and online support at Wrox.com.