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Welcome to the website
of the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems. JAUS is sponsored
by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) for Acquisition,
Technology and Logistics.
JAUS is mandated for use by all of the programs in the Joint
Ground Robotics Enterprise (JGRE). This initiative is to develop an architecture for
the Domain of Unmanned Systems. JAUS is an upper level design for
the interfaces within the domain of Unmanned Ground Vehicles. It
is a component based, message-passing architecture that specifies
data formats and methods of communication among computing nodes. It defines messages and component behaviors that are independent
of technology, computer hardware, operator use, and vehicle platforms
and isolated from mission.
JAUS uses the Society of Automotive Engineers Generic Open Architecture
(SAE GOA) framework to classify the interfaces. It complies with
the Joint Technical Architecture as well as the Joint Technical
Architecture - Army. JAUS is prescriptive, as opposed to descriptive,
and is sufficiently flexible to accommodate technology advances. JAUS can be used by any Unmanned System - Air, Ground, Surface,
or Underwater - be it commercial or military.
OSD chartered the JAUS Working Group (WG) in 1998. Since then, the WG has made significant progress in developing the architecture. The WG consists of members from the Government, industry and academia. The JAUS documentation produced to date include the Reference Architecture
Specification, the Domain Model, a Document Control Plan, and the
JAUS WG Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). A Compliance Plan,
Transport Plan and User's Handbook are under development.
The Enterprise Director, Joint Ground Robotics, has initiated JAUS to achieve
the following goals:
- Reduce life cycle costs
- Reduce development and integration time
- Provide a framework for technology insertion
- Accommodate expansion of existing systems with new capabilities
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