These are the domain experts on Tier 2 that design individual service definitions for use by Tier 3 roles component supplier and system architect. This enables the definition of “de-facto” standard service definitions within a specific robotics sub-domain such as “object recognition”, “mobile manipulation”, “SLAM”, etc. For example, they can define what is a common (good) representation for a “localization” service that should be used (and shared) within the “SLAM” domain.

Synonym:

• none

Related views and models:

• Service Design View
• Service-Definition Metamodel

See also:

• Component Supplier
• System Architect
• User Stories including this role
• Roles in the Ecosystem