Here's how Microsoft Robotics Studio is getting used...

Robotics Studio Results

Paul Mooney — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:10:01 GMT

Here's how Microsoft Robotics Studio is getting used... Something is going on here...how long before...

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Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:57:20 GMT

I wonder if that's using the traditional closed loop control mechanism or the more advance state space. I wonder how fast robotics studio is. Could it meet the high speed timing requirements of a bipedal closed feedback robot.

re: Here's how Microsoft Robotics Studio is getting used...

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:16:42 GMT

Thanks Mike for the great post. We have a set of cool stuff including robots, user groups, partner releases, etc. using MSRS on our community page [1] and will get more from the UMass guys shortly.

Henrik

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/aa731519.aspx

re: Here's how Microsoft Robotics Studio is getting used...

George Chrysanthakopoulos — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:57:39 GMT

Regarding performance: MSRS, on a "standard" PC (2GHZ dual core) can do about 1.5 million messages per second between two independent CCR components (Basically two classes posting messages on ports, each on a different thread/core).

Between DSS services, same node, with full cloning of each message, we can do about 100 thousand messages / sec. Across machines we can do about 6,000 msgs/sec.

So its fast enough for LQR, PID, Kalman discrete time filters with very high update rates.

We have partners that are using the CCR/DSS for the high cycle rate control logic.

In this case however, the ubot5 has an FPGA that does the high cycle rate control inside (the balancer/inverted pendulum), and then MSRS is used for high level orchestration and higher order control. Also MSRS is used for the articulated arms, implementing the splines, etc.

The ubot5 guys will post more details/demos soon as well. Btw they were following this two-tiered approach before they ported to MSRS, since we believe its the right path: isolate tight control at some different simpler hardware level, use MSRS and a general purpose OS, at a higher level.

Hope this makes sense

TechEd 2007 SEA: Robotics and Windows Mobile

Stanley Tan's Blog — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:38:42 GMT

[3:14PM] I'm here now in the Faculty Summit Academic Track. Jennifer Perret has just given an overview

How Robotics Studio is being used

wotudo — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:37:47 GMT

It seems an age already but only last month I was working in Redmond for a week. During this time I got