Toward Evidence-Driven Human-Agent-Robot Teaming for Earth-Independent Anomaly Triage

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arXiv:2610.08933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep-space crews cannot rely on real-time ground support for urgent off-nominal events. A triage state manager maintains hypotheses, evidence provenance, uncertainty, operational context, and tool status; a crew-facing embodied agent elicits observations and explains assessment changes; and a mobile robot acquires targeted, localized evidence.

Initial alerts may underdetermine cause, while discriminating evidence may reside in crew observations or at locations that are unsafe, costly, or unavailable for crew inspection. Agentic AI is treated as a stateful coordinator over bounded, inspectable services rather than as a fully autonomous vehicle controller. Typed interfaces separate dialogue and orchestration from monitoring, robot command, context retrieval, and safety-critical control.