Thanks for downloading OpenJAUS and/or signing up for the OpenJAUS Newsletter! It has been over a year since the last release of OpenJAUS v3.3.0a and the OpenJAUS team has been at work on a number of new features and bug fixes. Today marks the release of OpenJAUS v3.3.0b and with it a number of exciting new things on the horizon for OpenJAUS and users of open-source JAUS software!

1. OpenJAUS v3.3.0b Release

· Support for QNX

· Introducing toString!

2. OpenJAUS Node Manager Daemon for Linux environments

4. OpenJAUS User’s Stories

6. Sponsor OpenJAUS!

OpenJAUS v3.3.0b Release

Starting today, OpenJAUS v3.3.0b is available for download! Over the past year, a number of bugs and issues have been identified by OpenJAUS users. Thank you to everyone that has submitted a ticket or emailed us or posted on our forums about a bug they have found. OpenJAUS v3.3.0b is a mostly maintenance release which addresses the bugs and issues identified in the OpenJAUS toolkit over the past year. However, two important new features are added as well and documented below. You can download the latest OpenJAUS releases here.

Support for QNX

OpenJAUS wants to thank Tim Sowden of Perry Singsby Systems for his efforts in porting the OpenJAUS SDK to QNX. The minor changes required to support QNX have been added to the OpenJAUS trunk and moving forward with release 3.3.0b, support for an OpenJAUS release for QNX. QNX support was developed and tested on QNX Neutrino 6.3 with gcc 3.3.5.

Introducing toString()

An often asked for but missing feature of libjaus was the ability to easily create a human-readable string of the contents of a JAUS message. Thanks to Luke Rosenberry and Mountain Top Technologies, OpenJAUS now supports toString() functions for every message! These will create a character buffer and populate it with the contents of the given message including the Header fields and the contents of the message data.

OpenJAUS Node Manager Daemon for Linux

The OpenJAUS Node Manger distributed with the main SDK is designed to be run as a console application. However, an often requested ability is to run the Node Manager as a background process. A version of the Node Manager as a service for Linux has been developed and is now available on the OpenJAUS site in the downloads section. This includes the source code, instructions on building the binary and a script for use to start the Node Manager automatically at system startup. A version for Windows environments is in the works and will be available as well in the future!

OpenJAUS User’s Stories

Many companies, universities and organizations, both public and private, are using OpenJAUS in their projects. We have started collecting stories from these users and publishing them on the OpenJAUS website. We would like to hear from you! Have an exciting or novel project that is using OpenJAUS? Want to get the word out about your products and applications? Contact us and we will be happy to include your information on the OpenJAUS website!

Sponsors

OpenJAUS would like to thank the companies and organizations which support its efforts to develop and make available a robust implementation of the JAUS standard. Without their help and support, OpenJAUS would not be available today.

National Robotics Engineering Center – Supports OpenJAUS efforts through development support of key OpenJAUS personnel.

Defense Technologies Inc. (DTI) – Develops software and hardware to support unmanned systems. Supports OpenJAUS through development efforts, sponsored the new C++ Node Manager development.

The University of Florida’s CIMAR Lab – Initial developers of the OpenJAUS codebase and made it available publically as open source. Continued involvement in the development and testing of OpenJAUS.

Mountain Top Technologies (MTT) – Developing the AGNAS system to autonomously tow aircraft. Supported OpenJAUS beta tests and contributed the JAUS v 3.3 Planning Messages.

Become a Sponsor

If your organization depends on OpenJAUS and you want to see it well maintained and continuing to do more for you, then think about becoming a sponsor! This can be in the form of donations or contributed work. We plan on highlighting our sponsors and their projects on our website, which is getting more and more traffic every day. Sponsoring organizations will also be included in our presentations to the standards bodies, as we bring new capabilities to JAUS, SAE, and STANAG. In addition, your products and projects will be advertised in our developers’ conferences. This is a great way for new organizations to get some recognition in the industry. Contact the OpenJAUS development team for more information!

You can help OpenJAUS today! Just add a link to www.OpenJAUS.com on your company’s website, the more people that know about the project, the better it is for all of us!