Toward a Java based infrastructure for unmanned aerial vehicles

Yu David Liu, Lukasz Ziarek
2015 Companion Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity - SPLASH Companion 2015  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently emerged as a promising platform for civilian tasks and public interests, such as merchandise delivery, traffic control, news reporting, natural disaster management, mobile social networks, and Internet connectivity in third-world countries. Looking forward, the exciting potential of UAVs is accompanied with significant hurdles that call for broad and concerted interdisciplinary research, with diverse focuses on real-time system design, energy
more » ... ncy, safety and security, programmability, robotics and mechanical design, among others. This poster proposes an open-source and extensible software infrastructure for UAVs.
doi:10.1145/2814189.2817276 dblp:conf/oopsla/LiuZ15 fatcat:msfbjozqzbfyziv4wufbdw7ryq