A middleware architecture for unmanned aircraft avionics

Abstract

An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is a non-piloted airplane designed to operate in dangerous and repetitive situations. With the advent of UAV's civil applications, UAVs are emerging as a valid option in commercial scenarios. If it must be economically viable, the same platform should implement a variety of missions with little reconfiguration time and overhead.This paper presents a middleware-based architecture specially suited to operate as a flexible payload and mission controller in a UAV. The system is composed of low-cost computing devices connected by network. The functionality is divided into reusable services distributed over a number of nodes with a middleware managing their lifecycle and communication. Some research has been done in this area; yet it is mainly focused on the control domain and in its realtime operation. Our proposal differs in that we address the implementation of adaptable and reconfigurable unmanned missions in low-cost and low-resources hardware.

Flying Ad-Hoc Networks: Routing Protocols, Mobility Models, Issues

“…Figure 2 shows MLH routing technique. www.ijacsa.thesai.org  Data-Centric Routing (DCR) [5] This kind of routing protocols used when some data needed by many UAVs in the network, in this case,one-to-many communication are preferred than one to one data transmission [10,11]. In this routing protocol, the ID for UAVs is not important; here the routing is done with respect to the data, not to the ID of UAVs that requests it.…”

Steps Towards Scalable and Modularized Flight Software for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

“…Here, communication includes a state broadcast between multiple UA. López et al build a specific middleware for UA avionics [13]. In their approach, the middleware executes and manages the other modules.…”

Applying Marea Middleware to UAS Communications

“…Our Marea middleware proposes a modular architecture based on services 6 . The avionic system is composed of set of distributed elements, known as services, which operate on top of the middleware communication framework.…”