"Unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) serve a critical need in a variety of missions, including reconnaissance and search-and-destroy, as well as outside the military in agriculture and forestry.
However, because UAVs are designed for specific mission parameters, it is technically difficult to reconfigure UAV software systems when other missions take a higher priority.

By focusing first and foremost on data interfaces within and between software components along with the integration of those interfaces, UAV system designers can unlock software architectures from a specific technology. The primary objective is to design systems with an unprecedented level of flexibility while improving overall system reliability and sustainability. ..."

By Edwin de Jong
Embedded.com

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