Because Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are invariably designed for specific missions, they tend to be difficult to adapt to changes in mission once built and deployed. Building a UAV that is readily adaptable to different mission parameters requires a new platform approach to UAV architecture. The biggest advantages are significant savings in cost, complexity, and time in the operational phase. Part of the technical challenge in building a UAV platform is providing an integration framework that supports this approach. Such an integration framework can be implemented through the use of middleware to abstract the details of point-to-point data transmission away from the individual components of the UAV. This type of middleware has been created as the Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems (DDS), a standard published by the Object Management Group (OMG) and currently used in implementations of both UAVs and ground stations.
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