Module 01 · Edge Autonomy Runtime
Revenant Core
The full world model, ROE engine and mission plan resident on every node, inside a 40 W SWaP envelope.
The resident world model is seven layers: a geospatial substrate of terrain, bathymetry, structures and known subsurface voids; a track store where a track is not a label but an evidence chain; a mission graph carrying commander's intent as both a utility function and a set of hard constraints; the authorization state; a self-and-peer model where every fact about a peer carries its own staleness clock; an electromagnetic and environmental model; and an adversary model that is used to choose between plans and never to justify a release of force.
The planner proposes. The gate disposes. The planner is learned and heuristic, and it is never wired to an actuator. Every proposed action crosses a deterministic predicate evaluator running on a separate lockstep processor with its own memory, its own clock and its own copy of the authorization state. It returns PERMIT, DENY, or DEFER — and DEFER, the state where an action would be lawful but no human authorization exists for it, is a permanent condition under EMCON. That is the correct behaviour, not a failure.
Nine predicates must pass before force is released: geofence, target class, confidence floor, positive-identification basis, human authorization, deconfliction, collateral estimate, self-state, and ledger health. If the LEDGER cannot write, the gate cannot permit. A node that has lost the ability to record what it did loses the ability to do it.
- Compute envelope
- 40 W total — inference 18.0 W, world model and planners 9.0 W, safety island 1.2 W, crypto 0.6 W, mesh host 6.0 W, platform 3.4 W, margin 1.8 W
- Resident footprint
- 6.4 GB — 2.1 GB substrate, 1.9 GB model weights, 1.1 GB track and mission state, 1.3 GB working buffers
- Track capacity
- 20,000 simultaneous tracks, each carrying its own signed evidence chain
- Rate groups
- 400 Hz actuation · 50 Hz reactive planner · 20 Hz fusion and ledger append · 5 Hz deliberative planner · 1 Hz mesh and epoch close
- Determinism
- No heap allocation after init in the hard rate groups; static loop bounds in the gate; the linker fails the build if a heap symbol is reachable from an actuation entry point
- Timing, GNSS-denied
- Chip-scale atomic clock, 120 mW, holdover better than 15 µs/day. Mesh time transfer holds a group inside 200 µs.
- Cold boot
- 41 s to mission-capable (CORE/H), 6 s (CORE/L)
- Profiles
- CORE/H 40 W · CORE/M 12 W · CORE/L 3.5 W · CORE/S under 1 W duty-cycled
- Server requirement
- None. There is no REVENANT server.
What that buys CORE degrades toward itself. Cut every link and the node still holds the plan, the rules and the target set — the bottom of the ladder is still a fighting node.