Design and implementation of a low cost hierarchical and modular avionics architecture for the DragonFly UAVs

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Jang, Jung Soon ^a   Tomlin, Claire J ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Client Server architecture; Interprocess communication; Message passing; Open Control Platform; Scheduling; Shared memory; Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) avionics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; AVIONICS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF; COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MESSAGE PASSING; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES; INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION; OPEN CONTROL PLATFORMS; SHARED MEMORY; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85085401175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-4465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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