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Proteus: Scaled Composites
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The Proteus is a unique aircraft, designed as a high-altitude, long-duration telecommunications relay platform with potential for use on atmospheric sampling and Earth-monitoring science missions. Designed by Burt Rutan, president of Scaled Composites, LLC, of Mojave, Calif., Proteus is an "optionally piloted" aircraft ordinarily flown by two pilots in a pressurized cabin. However, it ... has the capability to perform its missions semi-autonomously or flown remotely from the ground.
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The objects of Proteus include: integers, floating point numbers, funcs (sub-programs), strings, sets, and tuples (finite sequences). The composite objects, sets and tuples, may contain any mixture of Proteus objects, nested to arbitrary depth.
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Scaled Composites' unique tandem-wing Proteus was the testbed for a series of UAV collision-avoidance flight demonstrations. An Amphitech 35GHz radar unit installed below Proteus' nose was the primary sensor for the Detect, See and Avoid tests.
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This paper explores the use of Proteus, an architecture-independent language suitable for prototyping time-sensitive parallel and distributed programs. Proteus is a high-level imperative notation based on sets and sequences with succinct yet powerful constructs for the parallel composition of processes communicating through shared memory.
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