Robotics Service Bus

h1. Wiki

Official user documentation is available at http://docs.cor-lab.de.

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h2. Getting Started

h3. Installation, Setup and First Steps

* [[Installation]]

** [[DebianPackages|Debian Packages]]

* [[FirstSteps|First Steps]]: Some things to try after installing RSB

* [[Tools]]: A list of tools that are included in the RSB distribution

* [[XCFMigration]]

h3. Writing Components

* [[Examples]]

* [[Using RSB to Receive and Publish Data]]

* [[Writing Converters]]

* [[ProtocolBufferConverter|Using RSB Converters with protocol buffer messages as domain objects]]

* [[ProtocolBufferPayloadInspection|Inspecting protocol buffer payloads]]

h2. Misc

* [[Overview|Unstructured Overview]]

* [[BindingStatus|Status of Language Implementations]]

* [[RSBm|Using RSB and RST with Matlab]]

* [[Component/Overview|Component Overview]]

* [[Glossary]]

* [[Framework_Comparison|Framework Comparison]], [[RosIntegration|Framework Integration]]

* [[Transport Exploration|Exploration of Possible Transports]]

* [[Format Exploration|Exploration of Serialization Formats]]

h2. Specifications

_More or less stable Specifications_

h3. High-level Concepts

* [[Events]]

* [[Guarantees]]

* [[Types]]

* [[Conversion]]

h3. (Network) Protocols

* [[SpreadProtocol|Protocol used by Spread-based transport]]

* [[TCPTransport|Protocol used by socket-based transport]]

* [[RequestReply|Request/Reply Communication]]

h3. Implementation

* [[CodingGuidelines]]

* [[Configuration]]

h2. Ideas

_Brainstorming, Ideas, in-progress Specifications_

* [[ConverterRecommendedWay|Recommend Way of using Domain Classes and Converters]]

* [[Domain Model]]

* [[URI Schema]]

* [[Model Introspection]]

* [[Transport-Level Filtering]]

* [[Inter-Transport Communication]]

* [[PluginConcept|Plugins]]

* [[ErrorHandling|Error Handling]]

* [[Methods]]

* [[EventProcessing]]

* [[Routing]]

h2. Meeting Dates and Minutes

*2010*

* *11* [[Meetings/2010-11-10|2010-11-10]]

*2011*

* *01* 

* *02* [[Meetings/2011-02-10|2011-02-10]]

* *03* [[Meetings/2011-03-03|2011-03-03]], [[Meetings/2011-03-17|2011-03-17]]

* *04* 

* *05* [[Meetings/2011-05-12|2011-05-12]], [[Meetings/2011-05-19|2011-05-19]], [[Meetings/2011-05-26|2011-05-26]]

* *06* [[Meetings/2011-06-01|2011-06-01]], [[Meetings/2011-06-08|2011-06-08]], [[Meetings/2011-06-20|2011-06-20]], [[Meetings/2011-06-27|2011-06-27]], [[Meetings/2011-06-28|2011-06-28]], [[Meetings/2011-06-30|2011-06-30]]

* *07* [[Meetings/2011-07-14|2011-07-14]], [[Meetings/2011-07-21|2011-07-21]], [[Meetings/2011-07-28|2011-07-28]]

* *08* [[Meetings/2011-08-02|2011-08-02]], [[Meetings/2011-08-04|2011-08-04]], [[Meetings/2011-08-11|2011-08-11]], [[Meetings/2011-08-18|2011-08-18]], [[Meetings/2011-08-25|2011-08-25]]

* *09* [[Meetings/2011-09-01|2011-09-01]], [[Meetings/2011-09-08|2011-09-08]], [[Meetings/2011-09-15|2011-09-15]], [[Meetings/2011-09-22|2011-09-22]], ([[Meetings/2011-09-29|2011-09-29]])

* *10* [[Meetings/2011-10-04|2011-10-04]], [[Meetings/2011-10-06|2011-10-06]], [[Meetings/2011-10-13|2011-10-13]], ([[Meetings/2011-10-20|2011-10-20]]), [[Meetings/2011-10-27|2011-10-27]]

* *11* [[Meetings/2011-11-03|2011-11-03]], ([[Meetings/2011-11-10|2011-11-10]]), [[Meetings/2011-11-17|2011-11-17]], [[Meetings/2011-11-24|2011-11-24]]

* *12* ([[Meetings/2011-12-08|2011-12-08]]), [[Meetings/2011-12-15|2011-12-15]], ([[Meetings/2011-12-22|2011-12-22]])

*2012*

* *01* ([[Meetings/2012-01-12|2012-01-12]]), [[Meetings/2012-01-18|2012-01-18]], [[Meetings/2012-01-19|2012-01-19]], ([[Meetings/2012-01-26|2012-01-26]])

* *02* [[Meetings/2012-02-02|2012-02-02]], ([[Meetings/2012-02-09|2012-02-09]]), [[Meetings/2012-02-16|2012-02-16]], ([[Meetings/2012-02-23|2012-02-23]])

* *03* [[Meetings/2012-03-01|2012-03-01]], ([[Meetings/2012-03-08|2012-03-08]]), [[Meetings/2012-03-15|2012-03-15]], [[Meetings/2012-03-22|2012-03-22]], ([[Meetings/2012-03-29|2012-03-29]])

* *04* [[Meetings/2012-04-05|2012-04-05]]

* *06* [[Meetings/2012-06-21|2012-06-21]], [[Meetings/2012-06-28|2012-06-28]]

* *07* [[Meetings/2012-07-26|2012-07-26]]

* *08* [[Meetings/2012-08-16|2012-08-16]], [[Meetings/2012-08-30|2012-08-30]]

* *09* [[Meetings/2012-09-20|2012-09-20]], [[Meetings/2012-09-27|2012-09-27]]

* *10* [[Meetings/2012-10-25|2012-10-25]]

* *11* [[Meetings/2012-11-22|2012-11-22]]

* *12* [[Meetings/2012-12-06|2012-12-06]], [[Meetings/2012-12-20|2012-12-20]]

*2013*

* *01* [[Meetings/2013-01-31|2013-01-31]], [[Meetings/2013-01-10|2013-01-10]]

_An entry of the form (DATE) indicates a canceled meeting._

h2. Next 

h3. Technical and Organizational

* Issues

** Feature #174 (check if completed)

* Conceptual Stuff

** Bug #392 (multi-connector setups)

** Remark in #502 (extract meta-data about audio/video streams)

** Bug #390 (send time in Informer)

** Start/end times, duration and rate in RST @Image@ and @SoundChunk@ types

** Again: more powerful wire-schema designators, please

** Extend set of legal scope characters?

** Notifying client code of errors (meta-events?)

** Configuration

*** Language-specific configuration? #551

** Nachrichtenfilterung

* Constness of Events / Event Payloads to prevent side-effects in local transport

h3. General Interest

* Conceptual Stuff

** Configuration 

** "Param service + X" (must also be suitable for component layer, cf. CCA)

** Introspection / Naming

** Component Layer: CCA or sth that is extracted from CCA?

** ICL / Computer Vision Integration with RSB

** Integration of/relation to computer vision/data flow frameworks?

** Ingo's data-mapper/"rosetta stone" project

** YARP/ROS Integration

** Verbindungsüberwachung (Listener-Awareness)

** IDL retrieval (see [[Meetings2011-09-22#Design-Decisions]])

** RST Release Management / Type Consolidation

** Hierarchical / Composite Synchronous Data Distribution / Subscription 

** Website / Documentation / Marketing

** Python3 Support (probably explained along MORSE prototype)

** Transport-level Best Practices (Spread+TCP+InProcess)

** ZeroMQ Exploration

** RSB on Android

** Use RETF RD on Message Data Type References within RSB

* Toolkit Level but related

** Component Migration: ISR as Example

** ELAN / RSBag / Video Conversion

** "Catalogue maintenance session"

* Reports

** BHA Steuerung

** ISY retrospective

** HUMAVIPS Y2 data recording experience

* Other Stuff

** RSBag advertising? (see [[Meetings2011-09-22#Feedback]])