The use of JAUS protocols is part of the 6th
Mission requirement (see Official
Rules)
The Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) is the premiere
interoperability standard for unmanned systems. This standard originated
in the Joint Robotics Program, a U. S. Department of Defense Office
in 1998 and since has migrated to an open, commercial standard. JAUS
has been adopted by the Society of Automotive Engineers, Aerospace
Standards Division. Use of the standard is required in major Department
of Defense programs and it is used in a variety of commercial and industrial
applications worldwide.
The document link below, describes the required usage of JAUS in the
AUVSI student competitions. Included therein are the specific protocols
and messaging to be employed by the student teams during the 6th Mission
of the IARC to communicate status and position information to the Judge’s
monitoring station or “Common Operating Picture” (COP). The COP is
a computer workstation running a client program designed specifically
to interact with student vehicle entries using the messaging described
therein. The interface to the JAUS based COP is a design issue that
the student teams must incorporate into their systems and within the
rules provided. All teams will be provided with access to the COP so
that their systems may be verified prior to the final event. Please
visit www.usaric.org for details on use of the COP and other information
related to the Interoperability Challenge.
Note that the document linked below is written generically for all
of the AUVSI student competitions, of which the IARC is the most challenging.
During the 6th Mission of the IARC, vehicles will have to report information
as described in the Official Rules, but, being fully autonomous, will
not have to receive any commands. The JAUS document will help you implement
the JAUS protocols and communicate with the Judges' COP. Other AUVSI
competitions may require more or less of their vehicles insofar as
JAUS is concerned. Use the Official
IARC Rules as your guideline for
what kind of JAUS messaging will be required.
Please be advised that the JAUS Validation Tool
(JVT) is now available. This tool
was designed for use by the IARC teams (as well as other teams involved
in the various AUVSI student competitions). You will find the on-line
tool at http://www.usaric.org/JVT.
Using the tool is simple if you program your interfaces in accordance
with the Interoperability Challenge Interface Control Document (available
via www.usaric.org) and follow the instructions on the JVT page.
No download is necessary. Simply point your communications to 24.42.140.203
port 3794 and load http://www.usaric.org/JVT.html in your
browser ( a graphical component to complete the Common Operating Picture
tool for the judging at the Competition).
Technical questions can be addressed to JAUS representative:
Unmanned Systems and Robotics Interoperability Center, Inc.
2225 Drake Ave, Suite 2
Huntsville, Alabama 35805
student_competitions@usaric.org
www.usaric.org
CLICK HERE FOR
THE JAUS INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT (.pdf)
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Principal Research Engineer Emeritus
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Adj. Associate Professor (ret)
Georgia Institute of Technology
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