Module 19 · Phase 5: Deployment engineering
Testing, Validation & Field Deployment
Commission and field-test a robot: pre-power checks, sensor and calibration validation, bag recording, reproducing intermittent failures, regression tests, deployment and rollback.
This overview is open. 6 of 6 guides are written; the others show Coming soon until they are complete and tested.
Questions this module answers
- What should I check before powering on a robot, and how do I prepare a field test?
- What should I record in a ROS bag?
- How do I reproduce an intermittent failure and validate SLAM accuracy?
- How do I prepare for production deployment?
What it covers
- Hardware, sensor and calibration validation
- Integration, software and HIL testing
- SLAM evaluation, navigation success rate, latency
- Field testing, bag recording, regression
- Deployment, rollback, maintenance
Guides and design decisions
Diagnostics, tools and challenges
C. Troubleshooting (2)
- Robot stops after running for several hoursStable at first, then a shutdown or stall after a long run.
- Robot behaves differently in a new environmentTuned behavior degrades at a new site.
E. Design challenges (2)
- Challenge 1: Design an Autonomous Mobile RobotIndoor differential-drive robot: sensors, motor sizing, compute, power, ROS 2, LiDAR+IMU, SLAM, Nav2, tuning and validation.
- Challenge 6: Multi-Robot Fleet DeploymentFleet of mobile robots: architecture, networking, fleet management, task allocation, traffic, monitoring and recovery.
Practical deliverables
- Commissioning checklists
- Field test templates
Read first: existing FixTheRobot lessons and labs
This module builds on these instead of repeating them.
- Evaluating Navigation Navigation · Lesson
- Measuring Navigation: Success, Efficiency, Safety and Comfort Navigation · Lesson
- Robustness and Stress Testing Robot Learning · Lesson