AS5669 JAUS Transport Specification

The use of unmanned systems is a key component in a strategy to reduce exposing personnel to hazardous situations and harmful environments. Unmanned systems can also provide cost-effective solutions to the performance of repetitive tasks. As a result, a large number of unmanned system products are being introduced to the market. However, many of these systems are characterized as task specific and non-interoperable, limiting choices regarding both what can be done with these systems and which devices may command them to do it.

A standard open architecture for unmanned systems is required to remedy these difficulties – to support the rapid and cost-effective development and maintenance of unmanned systems. The JAUS suite of standards provides such a solution. This JAUS Transport Specification supplies the transport layer for this standards suite (working on top of common communications media), providing a common substrate on which higher-level application messaging for unmanned systems functionality may be defined.