Module 20 · Phase 5: Deployment engineering
Fleet Management & Operational Robotics
Run many robots: task allocation, traffic management, shared maps, remote health monitoring, OTA updates and long-term maintenance.
This overview is open. 5 of 5 guides are written; the others show Coming soon until they are complete and tested.
Questions this module answers
- How do I deploy multiple robots in a warehouse and prevent traffic conflicts?
- How do I monitor robot health remotely?
- How do I manage software updates and diagnose fleet-wide failures?
- How do I maintain robots over a long deployment?
What it covers
- Multi-robot coordination, task allocation, traffic management
- Shared maps, multi-robot localization
- Health monitoring, network reliability
- OTA updates, configuration management, maintenance scheduling
Guides and design decisions
A. Engineering Guides (4)
B. Design & Selection (1)
Diagnostics, tools and challenges
C. Troubleshooting (1)
- ROS 2 communication fails between computersTopics are visible on one machine and empty on the other.
E. Design challenges (1)
- Challenge 6: Multi-Robot Fleet DeploymentFleet of mobile robots: architecture, networking, fleet management, task allocation, traffic, monitoring and recovery.
Practical deliverables
- Fleet deployment checklist
- Monitoring metric list
Read first: existing FixTheRobot lessons and labs
This module builds on these instead of repeating them.
- Docking, Charging and Fleet Operations Navigation · Lesson