Embedded Computer System Based Mobile Robots

Design and software development of embedded computer- based robotic systems have been the main aim of this paper. For this aim, the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot platform which is supported by Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) software development environment and equipped with ARM7 microprocessor, are used. Software development studies are made on it. Embedded computer systems are analysed generally and programming of these systems which are used in robotic studies are detailed. Therefore, experiments are made on two different software development environments which are written as following. NXT program developed for Mindstorms, Microsoft Robotics Studio analysed and Microsoft Visual Studio. Microsoft Robotics Studio is software development environments which is object based and uses drag and drop methods. For easy and rapid software development, lots of robot producers give support with software package to Robotics Studio which have physical simulation environment.