Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems

Posted by TomRose on December 13, 2006 under Sensor | Be the First to Comment

I found Grady Booch’s comments on Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems interesting. There is also an open source implementation called Open JAUS and some additional notes from a college course on the subject Unmanned Systems Course .

The emergence of frameworks like this is good, although there are so many frameworks and standards with overlap, interoperability will be challenging for some time.

I have not reviewed JAUS in any detail yet, and from first glance I see overlap with the Global Sensor Network from the GIS community for sensor acquisition. However, even if there is no overlap, considerable effort is required to understand how components and large systems can be designed to interoperate over the variety of standards.

On the subject of systems design, some focus on system level design standards is also in the works with the Rosetta project operating under the IEEE DASC Study Group.

Tom