Interoperable Autonomous Systems Workshop: Foundations for Interoperability among Space AssetsIAS 2025

Much research and development has been done in the development of individual autonomous systems (AS). However, there has been minimal development of the information exchange standards required for separate autonomous system (AS) to communicate. NASA’s plans for a permanent lunar base envision multiple autonomous systems working in coordination to perform complex coordinated tasks such as robotic assembly, mining and crew rescue/support. To accomplish these tasks, the multiple AS will need to share plans, schedules, procedures and FDIR. This heterogenous set of AS will come from different countries (e.g. USA, Europe, Japan) and different companies (e.g. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Astrobotic). Without a common information exchange between AS, pairwise exchanges will need to be developed at increasing cost (as more AS are deployed). To address this issue, NASA’s Lunar Command and Control Interoperability (LuCCI) Project is developing interoperability standards for communication between autonomous systems.

Call for Lightning Talks

There’s been much work on autonomous systems in isolation, but less so on interaction between multiple autonomous system. In future space missions, autonomous systems are expected to be developed by multiple vendors and organizations across multiple nations. We are specifically seeking experiences and ideas on: 1) multiple autonomous system use cases, and 2) the classes of information that must be shared by autonomous systems, and 3) any other enablers of interoperable autonomy.

Authors submitting work to this track should do so by uploading an abstract to our submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smcitscc2025, selecting “Interoperable Autonomous Systems Workshop” as the track. There is no mandatory length for the abstract; an approximate length of between 0.5 and 2 pages is recommended. Abstracts will be peer reviewed by a committee selected by the workshop chairs.

Submissions accepted for presentation will have their abstract published in the IEEE SMC-IT/SCC proceedings (available via IEEE Xplore), as well as giving a 15-min presentation at the workshop.