E · Robotics Systems Engineering

System Design Challenges

Complete engineering problems that need several robotics disciplines at once.

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Each challenge is a complete problem with a realistic statement, constraints, architecture, implementation stages, validation criteria and engineering trade-offs. They combine several modules.

• Challenge 1: Design an Autonomous Mobile RobotIndoor differential-drive robot: sensors, motor sizing, compute, power, ROS 2, LiDAR+IMU, SLAM, Nav2, tuning and validation.Uses modules 01, 02, 03, 05, 09, 13, 14
• Challenge 2: Outdoor-to-Indoor Autonomous NavigationGNSS outdoors to LiDAR-inertial or visual-inertial indoors: sensor and frame architecture, sync, calibration, estimation, handover and recovery.Uses modules 06, 07, 11, 12
• Challenge 3: Vision-Guided ManipulationCamera, gripper, calibration, object pose, grasp planning, motion and grasp validation.Uses modules 06, 08, 16
• Challenge 4: UAV GNSS-Denied NavigationCamera, LiDAR and IMU on a UAV: compute, calibration, VIO/LIO, estimation, flight-controller integration and failure handling.Uses modules 07, 09, 10
• Challenge 5: Humanoid Locomotion IntegrationSimulated humanoid: model, actuators, IMU and joint sensing, state estimation, gait, whole-body control, MPC and validation.Uses modules 11, 14, 15
• Challenge 6: Multi-Robot Fleet DeploymentFleet of mobile robots: architecture, networking, fleet management, task allocation, traffic, monitoring and recovery.Uses modules 13, 18, 19, 20