This EDA study aims to investigate open standards for current and future UGVs in order to:
— reduce the whole life cost of ownership of current and future systems,
— provide interfaces that comply with publicly available open standards,
— allow incremental improvement of systems,
— allow technology insertion whilst minimising integration costs,
— improve operational effectiveness,
— decouple hardware and software where possible,
— specify the minimum possible investment to achieve the aims without hampering innovation,
— enabling collaboration between UGV and UAS systems,
— promote interoperability between controllers and different robotic systems,
— promote payload modularity and commonality.