A Reference Software Architecture to Support Unmanned Aircraft Integration in the National Airspace System

Curtis W. Heisey, Adam G. Hendrickson, Barbara J. Chludzinski, Rodney E. Cole, Mark Ford, Larry Herbek, Magnus Ljungberg, Zakir Magdum, D. Marquis, Alexander Mezhirov, John L. Pennell, Ted A. Roe (+1 others)
2012 Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems  
This paper outlines an architecture that provides data and software services to enable a set of Unmanned Aircraft (UA) platforms to operate in a wide range of air domains which may include terminal, en route, oceanic and tactical. The architecture allows a collection of command, control, situational awareness, conflict detection and avoidance, and data management elements to be composed in order to meet different requirement sets as defined by specific UA plat-
doi:10.1007/s10846-012-9691-8 fatcat:7rr37pn2wzauxarc4hb5ccl5gm