  Increasingly, high value industrial markets are driving trends for improved
functionality and resilience from resident autonomous systems. This led to an
increase in multi-robot fleets that aim to leverage the complementary
attributes of the diverse platforms. In this paper we introduce a novel
bio-inspired Symbiotic System of Systems Approach (SSOSA) for designing the
operational governance of a multi-robot fleet consisting of ground-based
quadruped and wheeled platforms. SSOSA couples the MR-fleet to the resident
infrastructure monitoring systems into one collaborative digital commons. The
hyper visibility of the integrated distributed systems, achieved through a
latency bidirectional communication network, supports collaboration,
coordination and corroboration (3C) across the integrated systems. In our
experiment, we demonstrate how an operator can activate a pre-determined
autonomous mission and utilize SSOSA to overcome intrinsic and external risks
to the autonomous missions. We demonstrate how resilience can be enhanced by
local collaboration between SPOT and Husky wherein we detect a replacement
battery, and utilize the manipulator arm of SPOT to support a Clearpath Husky
A200 wheeled robotic platform. This allows for increased resilience of an
autonomous mission as robots can collaborate to ensure the battery state of the
Husky robot. Overall, these initial results demonstrate the value of a SSOSA
approach in addressing a key operational barrier to scalable autonomy, the
resilience.
