Autonomy's Hierarchy of Needs: Smart City Ecosystems for Autonomous Space Habitats

Space habitats such as NASA's proposed Artemis Base Camp will house both astronauts and autonomous systems. The Artemis Base Camp's infrastructure could provide supporting services to its tenants to optimize their function. This calls for a smart city ecosystem. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs has been engaged as a framework to inform human-centric smart city design and feature prioritization; however, autonomous systems have different needs to humans. This paper aligns the needs of humans and autonomous systems in a framework called Autonomy's Hierarchy of Needs, which provides a smart city ecosystem design framework for the Artemis Base Camp.