Organizational Model for Cooperative and Sustaining Robotic Ecologies

The use of robots to explore space has many advantages over using humans for the same task. However, a shortcoming of exploration using robotic entities has been the lack of ability to create sustainable teams with enough flexibility to perform numerous tasks, provide a high-level of versatility, and work as a cooperative team to satisfy mission critical goals. The ability for a robotic colony to create and sustain itself, in the long-term, in a planetary or space environment, will require the flexibility to reorganize and reform itself to meet and overcome continuous, unforeseen challenges.