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Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2007/06/28 14:07 As I am progressing now in the development of the control architecture using the Pioneer 3 DX hardware I will be posting here all the technical issues, configuration tips, tricks, integration, information, libraries, etc.

My focus is the development using the Microsoft Robotics Studio platform; therefore most of the topics I will open here will exclusively deal with this environment.

All information related to the Pioneer 3 DX robot and Microsoft Robotics Studio is welcome in this forum.

Cheers,
Raúl.

Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2007/07/03 13:42 Raúl Arrabales Moreno. conscious-robots.com/raul

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2007/06/28 14:13 A lot of information and help on Microsoft Robotics Studio can be found at the Microsoft MSDN Forums for MSRS:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=383&SiteID=1

However, my aim in this forum at www.Conscious-Robots.com is to focus exclusively on the Pioneer 3 DX robot base. Most of the information published here comes from the help provided by Microsoft at MSDN forums.

Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2007/07/03 13:41 Raúl Arrabales Moreno. conscious-robots.com/raul

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2007/06/28 18:32 A detailed description of the Pioneer 3 DX robot can be found at:

http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/reviews/robots/mobilerobots-pioneer-3-p3-dx-8.html Raúl Arrabales Moreno. conscious-robots.com/raul

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2009/08/24 17:48 hi raul,

we are having troubles connecting to the pioneer 3dx with the vpl using microsoft robotic studio.
we are hoping you could guide us how to connect via wireless or even via the serial connection.

thanks

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2009/08/25 16:19 Hi,

If you're having problems I suggest to first of all troubleshoot the serial connection (using a serial cable), and then figure out the wireless connection.

Did you configured the file ArcosCoreService.xml in the Robotics Developer Studio installation? You have to make sure you're using the same COM port assigned to your USB-serial adapter (if you're using such an adaptor).

What is the exact problem you're having with the connection?

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2009/09/03 15:18 hi raul,
it's us again from the previous post (yutz), for some reason our user stopped working so we signed in again.

we succeeded in connecting the robot with the serial port and now we can control the robot.
we want to use the explorer sonar service that you have written but we don't know how to run it ( we have only used vpl so far so we don't really know what steps should be taken when using a source code)
can you explain what should be done?

thanks,
viteps

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Re:Programming the Pioneer 3 DX with Robotics Studio - 2009/09/04 11:43 Hi Viteps,

After a series of attacks my anti-spam filters are getting paranoid, that's probably why your old user got blocked. I am sorry about that. Will mark your new username as safe.

Good that you can control now the robot over the serial port.

To be honest, I've never used VPL, I just gave it a quick look in any new release.. Anyhow, as probably you already know, the minimum unit of code you can compile separately in Robotics Developer Studio is the service. This means, that every time you have a new service compiled (using for instance Visual Studio), the necessary dll files are created under the RDS bin directory.

I think that when VPL starts, the bin directory is checked and all available services will appear as new boxes to use in your diagrams.

So, as the explorer sonar services are provided as source code, the first thing you need to do is to compile them, and if the build is successful, the corresponding dlls would be available for use in VPL. Nevertheless, I have to say that I never tried to use these services from VPL, so I don't have a sample manifest.xml to show you.

Another option, which might be quicker for you, is to check MRDS 2008 R2. The Release 2 of Robotics Developer Studio comes now with a Sonar service. I didn't check it yet, but I guess this sonar service is better than mine. I will try and check it next week, so I will let you know the differences.

Let me know if you have problems compiling the source code from explorer sonar application.. Remember that it is composed of several services and you need them all to be sucessfully built to run the application. I might try to release a new version of the explorer using MRDS 2008 R2 and the new sonar service.. I´ll post any news on that here soon.

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Raul. Raúl Arrabales Moreno. conscious-robots.com/raul

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