3. Microsoft Robotics Studio - VPL
Microsoft has created a new software development
kit for the robotics community with the goal of supplying a software
platform that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable
to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety
of applications.
It includes a scalable, extensible runtime architecture
that can span a wide variety of hardware and devices. The programming
interface can be used to address robots using 8-bit or 16-bit
processors as well as 32-bit systems with multi-core processors
and devices from simple touch sensors to laser distance finding
devices. Included also is a high quality visual simulation environment
that uses for software physics supplied by the Ageia Technologies
PhysX engine.
Microsoft Robotics Studio: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/ |