Ground Control System

Mapping & Synthetic Environment:

• Aster Global Digital Elevation Map (30m resolution)
• ARINC-424 Leg Types (Waypoints)
• STANAG 4586 Interoperability

Telemetry:

• Use or adapt MAVLink (excellent variable length protocol)
• Possibly replace SAE AS-4/ITU X.25 hash with AUTODIN
• JAUS++ Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems in C++
• OpenJAUS Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems in C
• Introduction to the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems
• MIL-STD-2525B Tactical View Symbology Library

Navigation:

• Nonlinear Guidance Logic for Trajectory Tracking (Park, Deyst & How)
• QGroundControl open-source MAV ground control station
• MicroPather path finder and A* solver (C++)

Development:

• Borland C++ Builder 6.0 (older but rock-solid)
• RX Library for C++ Builder (user interfaces)
• Overbyte ICS UDP components
• Abakus VCL graphical components (C++/Delphi)
• TinyXML for parsing Google Earth KML files
• Cairo 2D graphics library (X, Win, more)

Helpers:

• CRC32 algorithm, in C (STM32)