Future of unmanned systems interoperability
John J. Ackley, Robert L. Wade, Daniel G. Gehring · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
There are many challenges in the area of interoperability of unmanned systems: increasing levels of autonomy, teaming and collaboration, long endurance missions, integration with civilian and military spaces. Several currently available methods and technologies may aid in meeting these and other challenges: consensus standards development, formal methods, model-based engineering, knowledge and ontology representation, agent-based systems, and plan language research. We believe the future of unmanned systems interoperability depends on the integration of these methods and technologies into a domain-independent plan language for unmanned systems.