JAUS

JAUS stands for Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems. JAUS is a component based message passing architecture that defines a data format and methods of communication between computing nodes.

In order to ensure that the architecture is applicable to the entire domain of current and future unmanned systems, it is built on the five principles of – vehicle platform independence, mission isolation, computer hardware independence, technology independence and operator use independence.

Learn more about it @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAUS

and

http://www.jauswg.org/