Smart Sensor Protocol - a new standard for UAV and payload integration

Due to the unmanned aerial vehicles versatility, the remarkable and growing use of these aircrafts nowadays has driven not only the expectations of that market values but also the amount of research in several related areas. Following forecasts of specialized roadmaps, these vehicles must evolve regarding both the maturity of the technology and the level of autonomous behavior. The organization of all the internal systems as a layered approach can make this evolution easier. Thus, by using the Mission-Oriented Sensors Array (MOSA) to decouple the mission from the aircraft control systems, the development of new applications for these vehicles can be benefited. Then the Smart Sensor Protocol (SSP) was developed in order to connect MOSA to UAV. All the grammar of the protocol was written using the Backus-Naur Form (BNF) and the communication over the SSP was modeled in UPPAAL tool using state diagrams. In this testing tool the system was mathematically described and tested using temporal logic rules.