JAUS Compliant Systems Offers Interoperability across Multiple and Diverse Robot Platforms

The Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) uses a constrained message passing protocol to affect interoperability among diverse systems and components within the subsystem. Two collaborative experiments separated by eight months successfully demonstrated interoperability and dynamic payload registration between dissimilar unmanned ground vehicles from different vendors. Today JAUS transitions with documentation and its members' full support to SAE aerospace standards technical committee AS4 (Unmanned Systems). Since the conception of JAUS in 1995, industry, government, and academic institutions have discovered functional and economic benefits for this interoperability framework.