Quantum-Resistant Trust Orchestration for Secure Internet of Robotic Things: Decentralized Consensus meets Real-Time Safety Guarantees

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We identify the main risks that arise when robotic systems rely on remote trust services and distributed consensus for joint tasks. We design a layered architecture that combines lightweight post quantum cryptographic primitives with a decentralized consensus protocol and a local safety monitor that enforces control invariants at run time. We provide a clear threat model and describe how the components interact to prevent common attacks and to contain faults. We evaluate the approach in mixed simulation and hardware tests that measure communication cost consensus finality and safety outcomes under adversarial conditions. Results show that the framework maintains safety bounds for robot motion even when consensus is delayed and that the selected post quantum primitives add moderate overhead that is compatible with edge class hardware. The paper contributes a full system design a set of engineering guidelines and an open evaluation suite to help researchers and engineers build safer and future proof trust services for robotic systems. Robotics Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Quantum resistant security Internet of Robotic Things Decentralized consensus Trust orchestration Post quantum cryptography Real time safety Cyber physical systems Secure robotics Distributed control Edge computing Full Text Additional Declarations The authors declare no competing interests. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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