Modular open systems
Applying MOSA principles—well-defined interfaces, modular boundaries, and replaceable components—to an accessible experimental sensor architecture.
Research agenda
Questions that guide the work
Research translates broad aerospace and defense challenges into architectures that can be reasoned about, built, instrumented, and tested.
Sensor discovery and adapters
Defining device identity, capability metadata, drivers, and payload adapters so newly attached sensors can be recognized and normalized.
Distributed sensing
Separating mobile sensing nodes from ground-station processing while preserving useful data across RF, Wi-Fi, UART, I²C, SPI, and USB links.
Power-aware integration
Treating power distribution, conversion, protection, and INA260 telemetry as part of the system architecture rather than an afterthought.
Autonomy testbeds
Building accessible physical platforms for later experiments in sensor fusion, human-machine teaming, and autonomous control.
Aerospace systems analysis
Connecting prototype lessons to combat-aircraft mission systems, acquisition, production, survivability, and open-architecture strategy.
Standards pathway
MOSA is the design discipline; OMS, FACE, and SOSA are reference points.
PURiK is not presented as compliant with defense standards. The research instead studies how their ideas—interface control, portable software, hardware profiles, data models, and conformance evidence—can improve a small experimental system.
Documentation program
Evidence under development
System architecture
Functional boundaries, interfaces, data flow, power flow, and deployment views.
Interface control
Device identity, physical and logical interfaces, message definitions, and versioning.
Verification record
Test procedures, observed results, limitations, configuration, and traceability.
Research papers
Technical interpretation of prototype results and their relationship to open-systems practice.