JAUS HAS MIGRATED TO SAE!

Welcome to the Jauswg.org website.  Here you will find the last versions of the JAUS specifications – the Reference Architecture & the Compliance Specification, as well as the Domain Model – that were generated by the JAUS Working Group.

If you have used this site in the past, you will notice that its scope has been reduced.  This is in keeping with our strategy to migrate JAUS into a commercial international standard and a concomitant plan to curtail operations of the JAUS Working Group.  The documents on this website are considered legacy and there is no intent to update or maintain them.  All activities on JAUS are now within the purview of the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE).

JAUS has been a messaging standard in the public domain since 1998.  It was developed and maintained by a combined industry, government, and academic team to provide for interoperability and technology insertion in the field of unmanned systems.  In 2004, the process to transition JAUS to an international civilian standards development organization (SDO) began.  That process is now largely complete; however, work to expand and improve the JAUS standard will continue.

JAUS is now defined by a set of SAE Aerospace Standards (AS).  It is supported by additional documents as needed; e.g. Aerospace Information Reports (AIR) and Aerospace Recommended Practices (ARP).  The following chart shows the document breakout:

SAE JAUS DOCUMENT SET

To obtain these documents (for a nominal cost), go to the associated links above.  We recommend first checking with your organization – many companies/agencies buy SAE standards as bundles, so they may already be available to you.

Lastly, we thank the many supporters and practitioners who have used the JAUS standard.  We trust that SAE JAUS will provide the same usefulness needed by acquirers of robotic systems and invite you to participate in the SAE AS-4 Unmanned Systems Technical Committee (http://www.sae.org).