Multi-Robot Coordinator
Multi-Robot Cooperative Task Allocation Coordinator
The Multi-Robot Cooperative Task Allocation Coordinator is software stored on radiation-hardened NOR flash that allocates tasks and synchronizes movements across fleets of up to 24 lunar robots. Operating on 1 W of power within the Lunar Ark architecture, the system employs auction-based task allocation, path reservation, and priority-driven conflict resolution to maximize fleet productivity. The unshielded lunar radiation environment, lacking a protective magnetosphere, requires radiation-hardened non-volatile memory to maintain autonomous cooperative driving across a 100-year service life and a 500,000-hour mean time between failures.
Multi-robot coordinator allocating tasks and synchronising movements across the robot fleet to avoid conflicts and maximise productivity.
Purpose
Multi-robot coordinator allocating tasks and synchronising movements across the robot fleet to avoid conflicts and maximise productivity.
Context
Child of L2-ROB-NAV within the Lunar Ark system
Principles
- ▸Auction-based task allocation
- ▸Movement coordination via reservation
- ▸Conflict resolution via priority
- ▸Coordination with L3-ISR-CTRL-SCHED
- ▸Long-mission cooperation evolution
Typical implementations
- ▸Multi-robot coordination frameworks (ROS 2 multi-master)
- ▸Industrial AGV fleet management
- ▸Multi-robot Cooperation for Lunar ISRU (Frontiers Robotics 2023)
Lunar considerations
- ▸Long-mission ML-augmented coordination
- ▸Cooperative driving per Communications Engineering 2024
- ▸Authenticated updates
Specifications
Functional
| primary function | Multi-robot coordinator allocating tasks and synchronising movements across the robot fleet to avoid conflicts and maximise productivity. |
| robots supported | 24 |
Physical
| mass kg | 0 |
| materials | Code on rad-hard NOR flash |
| vacuum compatibility | True |
Operational
| power consumption w | 1 |
| thermal range c | -40, 70 |
| lifetime years | 100 |
| mtbf hours | 500000 |
Interfaces
Provides
- Task assignments
- Coordinated ISR plans
Requires
- All robot positions
Cite this entry
Lunar Ark Codex. "Multi-Robot Coordinator" (L3-ROB-NAV-COORD). Retrieved 10 September 2026, from https://lunarark.com/entry/L3-ROB-NAV-COORD
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