THE  TECHNOLOGY:  The Autonomous Mission Execution Layer

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AMOCS -- Autonomous Mission Operations Coordination System -- is not a simulation platform. It is the operational execution layer that sits between asset-level autonomy and human mission control, coordinating actual assets in real time during live missions.

 

When a solar storm degrades relay signal quality while Rover-1 approaches a battery-critical threshold during an active EVA, AMOCS detects both conditions simultaneously, resolves the conflict according to priority-weighted rules, executes or escalates the coordinated response, and updates the 60-minute predictive forecast -- all within milliseconds, and all while preserving operator authority over any high-risk decision.

 

Five Core Capabilities

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1. Real-Time Constraint Reasoning

Priority-based conflict detection across five conflict types: power budget oversubscription, relay bandwidth saturation, battery criticality, communications blackout, and task zone collision. Sub-millisecond evaluation across multi-agent fleets. Autonomous resolution for LOW-risk conflicts; escalation to operator for HIGH-risk decisions.

 

2. Communication-Constrained Autonomy

Every decision accounts for the 1.28-second Earth-Moon one-way delay. Stored command execution during blackout periods. Autonomous coordination continues when the link is down. Command queue with IN_TRANSIT and ACKNOWLEDGED states tracks every uplinked instruction.

 

3. Graduated Human-Autonomy Teaming

Three operational modes -- Monitor Only, Recommend, and Supervised Autonomy -- produce measurably different autonomy rates across identical fault scenarios. Operators calibrate oversight level to mission phase and risk tolerance. All autonomous decisions are logged with timestamps for post-mission review.

 

4. Predictive Digital Twin

60-minute time-stepped forward simulation projects battery depletion, communications quality, and mission success probability. Operators see failures coming before they happen. Four pre-defined rehearsal scenarios validate system response to solar storms, relay failures, battery faults, and nominal operations.

 

5. Asset-Agnostic Architecture

AMOCS operates above existing flight software -- cFS, AEGIS, ICAROUS -- without requiring changes to any of them. Any asset that produces telemetry can be coordinated. Designed for heterogeneous fleets: rovers, habitats, power nodes, relay satellites, and crew systems all within a single operational framework.

 

How AMOCS Fits the Stack

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AMOCS sits at the coordination layer -- above asset autonomy, below mission control, orthogonal to simulation platforms:

• ABOVE: Human mission control and simulation platforms (Sedaro, OpenMCT) -- AMOCS feeds aggregated state and decision summaries upward

• AMOCS: Real-time coordination, constraint resolution, human-autonomy teaming, digital twin

• BELOW: Asset autonomy (AEGIS, ICAROUS) and flight software (cFS, RTEMS) -- AMOCS receives telemetry and sends coordinated commands downward