Theoretical aspects of multiresolutional autonomy

The phenomenon of autonomy is equivalent to assigning and producing a system of complicated goals that frequently form a multiresolutional hierarchy stemming from the concept of survival. Thus, autonomy of a system dwells upon the multiresolutional (multigranular, multiscale) world representation within the intelligent system and upon the associated computational mechanisms that enable the existence of MR-representation and its use. The issue of realization and/or rationality of autonomous intelligent control systems is a complicated one. It seems to be typical for animated nature but as far as engineering of autonomous systems are concerned, not all premises of the concept of autonomy are universally accepted by the scientific community. In the paper, the topics are discussed, which require additional research before the persuasive theory can be introduced.