Mission Instruction Interpretation module for autonomous UAV based on JAUS

In this paper two JAUS (Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems) services for an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are introduced. The first one concerns mission negotiation and the second one the interpretation of aeronautical information formatted in AIXM (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model). The JAUS services have been designed for surveillance and monitoring missions and have been implemented in a Mission Instruction Interpretation (MII) module using JAUS Tool Set (JTS).