SRI International Announces Mapping and Localization Technology for Microsoft Robotics Studio.Advanced Mobile Robotic Capabilities to Become Available on Microsoft's Robotics Studio MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- SRI International (company) SRI International - One of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjuction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, they later became fully independent and were incorporated as a non-profit organisation under U.S. , an independent nonprofit research and development organization, today announced that it plans to deliver a version of its advanced mapping and localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. software for Microsoft Robotics Studio The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware. . Microsoft Robotics Studio is a new Windows[R]-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a variety of computing platforms See platform. . SRI has been a leader in robotic software research and development since the founding of its Artificial Intelligence Center in 1966. Today, SRI continues its leadership in the field with a sophisticated suite of high-level robotic reasoning capabilities that have been deployed on a number of mobile robots A Mobile Robot is an automatic machine that is capable of movement in a given environment. Overview Mobile robots have the capability to move around in their environment and are not fixed to one physical location. . SRI software capabilities include localization (which enables a robot to determine its position within its environment using sensor information), mapping (which enables a robot to use sensor input to create a virtual model of its environment), exploration (which enables a robot to determine the sequence of moves it will make in order to completely cover an area in the environment), path planning (which enables a robot to compute the best path to take from its current position to a specified target position), and obstacle avoidance In robotics, obstacle avoidance is the task of satisfying some control objective subject to non-intersection or non-collision position constraints. Normally obstacle avoidance is considered to be distinct from path planning in that one is usually implemented as a reactive control (which enables a robot to detect previously unknown objects or environmental features and modify its path accordingly). SRI will port its existing robotic reasoning software to work on Microsoft's new Robotics Studio platform. "We are working with Microsoft to make our software compatible with Microsoft's new robotic platform," said Regis Vincent, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at SRI International. "This is an opportunity for SRI to apply its innovative mapping and localization technology in a way that will allow others to build quality end-user-oriented applications." "Over several decades, SRI has conducted advanced research projects and participated in multiple field exercises in autonomous mobile robotics and collaborative networked robotics, and has developed a large collection of essential software functions," said Tandy Trower, General Manager, Microsoft Robotics Group. "Microsoft looks forward to SRI offering its robust mapping, localization, and navigation functionality to the Microsoft Robotics Studio developer community." Microsoft Robotics Studio environment (http://www.microsoft.com/robotics) is an end-to-end, scalable and extensible robotics development platform that supports a wide variety of hardware. The development environment supports a wide range of programming languages, and includes a new visual programming language (language) visual programming language - (VPL) Any programming language that allows the user to specify a program in a two-(or more)-dimensionsional way. Conventional textual languages are not considered two-dimensional since the compiler or interpreter processes them as , which enables non-programmers to create and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. robotics programs very easily. Microsoft Robotics Studio includes a physics-based simulation environment that lets developers simulate robotics applications in realistic 3D physics-based virtual environments. The lightweight services-oriented runtime supports the execution of concurrent and distributed robotic applications. About SRI International Silicon Valley-based SRI International (www.sri.com) is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. Founded as Stanford Research Institute Stanford Research Institute - Former name of SRI International. in 1946, SRI has been meeting the strategic needs of clients for 60 years. The nonprofit research institute performs client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, and private foundations. In addition to conducting contract R&D, SRI licenses its technologies, forms strategic partnerships, and creates spin-off companies. |
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