Applying marea middleware to UAS communications

Abstract

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are increasing their communication subsystems complexity as they are using several data links both for redundancy and for tacking with different communication requirements: different ranges, bandwidth, power consumption or cost. Inside the airframe a similar tendency with respect to communications is appearing. Modern digital avionics are mainly implemented as distributed computing architectures. This work describes Marea, a middleware specifically designed to fulfill UAS communications and their application to the design of complex distributed UAS avionics.