Sociocracy 3.0 Governance Framework for Autonomous Robot Systems: A Distributed Consent-Based Approach

The integration of Sociocracy 3.0 (S3) governance principles into autonomous robotic systems represents a paradigm shift toward ethical, transparent, and consent-based multi-robot coordination. This paper presents a comprehensive framework that adapts S3's seven foundational principles and pattern-based approach to address the complex governance challenges inherent in distributed robotic systems. Through evaluation on the DROID 100 dataset and simulated data set, our framework demonstrates significant improvements in coordination effectiveness: reduction in coordination conflicts, improvement in system debuggability, and consent success rate. The framework successfully scales up to teams of robots while maintaining real-time performance through a three-tier consent protocol integrated with ROS 2 architecture.