Wind River software at heart of UAV

The objective of the nEUROn project is not only to perform military missions, but also to demonstrate maturity and effectiveness of technical and cooperation solutions. The demonstrator will have the following goals: performing an air to ground mission, inserted in a network centric warfare; sesigning a stealth platform (radar cross section and infrared); and weapon delivery from an internal bay with stringent tempo constraint. According to Wind River, the project will also demonstrate that a modular and reliable avionics system can be created using COTS based modular on board computers and high productivity and high quality critical real time software. Andi Pabinger, Wind River’s vp of EMEA sales, said: “We are seeing more unmanned systems developed internationally by disparate teams to meet increasingly diverse mission requirements. This growing complexity is driving the need for COTS components – including the software at the heart of unmanned vehicles.”