This work-in-progress report describes a distributed hybrid architecture that imparts autonomous intelligence capabilities of “perception-decision-action” to an ALV (Autonomous Landing Vehicle) control unit. The system is shown to degenerate to a remote thread execution mechanism of a real-time operating Linux system where the kernel instantiation is control strategy dependent.

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