DSS Service Description Catalog

This community-content enabled Wiki provides a catalog of Decentralized Software Services (DSS), service description indexes that have been announced to the DSS Community (jump to list of entries). A service description index contains information about DSS services including supported Decentralized Software Services Protocol (DSSP), message operations, service categories, service partners, and more. An index allows for discovery of services based on their descriptions and because it is using Atom/RSS (Real Simple Syndication) technology, enables subscribers automatically to be notified of updates and additions.

Using DSS Contract Information Tool (DssInfo.exe), the programmer can generate their own service description index of services that has been written. Then publish it on a web site, and either use it for internal use or add it to this page so that others can discover your services. Please refer to the topic Announcing DSS Services for details on how to do this.

This catalog is RSS enabled allowing subscribers to be automatically notified of additions and updates.

To add a new index to the catalog, please follow this process:

Under the Community Content banner below, click "Add new Community Content".
If not already signed in then sign in using your Windows Live ID or follow the process if you do not have one.
Fill out the community entry and mark it with the tag robotics.services. Below is an example of how an entry may look. Note that hyperlinks can be inserted by selecting text and then hit Ctrl-K.
Once the entry has been submitted it will show up within a few minutes. Because the catalog is RSS enabled, subscribers will automatically be notified about new or updated indexes listed in the catalog.

Community Content

Henrik F Nielsen

Microsoft Robotics Studio Service Description Index

This DSS Service Description Index provides a searchable index of all services that ship as part of Microsoft Robotics Studio and associated packages. The index contains information about each service including supported DSSP message operations, message types, service categories, and service partners. This enables you to find services based on their descriptions and because it is using Atom/RSS technology, enables subscribers automatically to be notified of updates and additions.

Rob Sim -- Braintech

Braintech VOLTS-IQ SDK for adding advanced computer vision to MSRS.

The VOLTS-IQ SDK provides a collection of MSRS services for performing computer vision tasks. Version 1.6 of the SDK features the following services:

Vi_WebCam: Captures images from an attached camera. (for example, a USB camera). Implements the MSRS generic WebCam contract.
Vi_IPCamera: Captures images from a remote camera. A camera is configured using a unique URL, and both jpg and mjpeg feeds are supported. Implements the generic MSRS webcam contract.
Vi_Tracker: A real-time tracker that tracks the position of a training thumbnail in a sequence of images from a camera service.
Vi_FaceDetector: Detects faces in images received from a webcam service.
Vi_MotionDetector: Monitors the image sequence from a webcam service and detects regions of motion.
Vi_ObjectDetector: This service can recognize objects when they appear in the image sequence obtained from a camera service. Objects are trained using a single view.
Vi_MultiViewObjectDetector: This service enhances Vi_ObjectDetector with the ability to recognize an object trained from multiple viewpoints.
Vi_MissileLauncher: operates the foam dart pan-tilt launcher manufactured by DreamCheeky. The launcher can be controlled programmatically or via a point-and-click web dashboard.

The full service catalog is available as an atom feed here: http://volts-iq.com/files/APIDocs_1.6/ServiceSummaries/index.atom.xml