Introduction & Scope
This documentation serves as a living technical reference focused on abstraction correctness, system boundaries, and long-term extensibility of the Standard Template Construct (STC). It is not a beginner’s tutorial or a product manual.
The current scope corresponds to Phase 2: System Formalization, emphasizing architectural consistency, explicit knowledge representation, and simulation-backed validation of system interactions rather than real-world fidelity or deployment readiness.
The intended audience includes engineers, researchers, and technically literate reviewers evaluating system architecture, modelling assumptions, and design trade-offs.
Documentation Index
Core Concepts
Defines the shared vocabulary and conceptual primitives underpinning STC, including templates, modules, constraints, environments, and phase definitions.
System Architecture
Describes the high-level structure, subsystem boundaries, data flows, and architectural principles guiding STC design.
Knowledge Representation
Explains how missions, modules, agents, environments, and constraints are encoded using explicit, versioned schemas.
Module System
Formal specification of constructible units, including inputs, outputs, dependencies, maintenance requirements, and compatibility rules.
Planning, Reasoning & Decision-Making
Outlines the separation between planning, validation, and optimisation, and the role of symbolic reasoning versus learned components.
Simulation Framework
Describes simulation scope, fidelity levels, time-stepping, and feedback mechanisms used to validate system behaviour.
Robotics & Execution Interfaces
Defines abstract execution interfaces for autonomous agents, including ROS2 integration and multi-agent coordination concepts.