An Interaction Framework for Multi-domain Unmanned Systems Collaboration Based on Interoperability Messages

To improve the interoperability of unmanned system and enhance the multi-domain unmanned system collaborative capacity, we propose an interaction framework based on interoperability messages, which consists of a set of message standard and the correlated interaction protocol. Combines the common information interaction requirements of unmanned system and the different specificity of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned surface vehicles (USV), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and the corresponding payloads carried by the unmanned systems, the message standard set can be divided into three main categories, each category contains several kinds of message. The interaction protocol of a message varies according to the message's type and meaning. The interaction framework will help human operator make it easier to control different kinds of multi-domain unmanned systems and make autonomous cooperative between unmanned systems possible.