System Design & Development

The System Design and Development section provides comprehensive resources and guidelines for developing, integrating, and refining robotic systems. These articles emphasize best practices, methodologies, and tools to enhance system reliability, modularity, and performance.

Key Subsections and Highlights

• Cable Management Focuses on effective planning, creation, and installation of cables to ensure reliability, ease of debugging, and modularity in robotic systems.

• Hardware-in-Loop and Software-in-Loop Testing Discusses HIL and SIL methodologies for testing real-time embedded controllers, with specific use cases like ADAS and autonomous vehicles.

• Mechanical Design Provides guidelines for mechanical system design, including modeling, stress analysis, modularity, and iterative design practices.

• PCB Design Notes Covers PCB design practices, including software tools, vendor recommendations, schematic guidelines, and manufacturing processes.

• System-Subsystem-Interface Modeling Introduces SysML-based system modeling to enhance planning, requirements tracing, and subsystem interaction design.

Resources

Here is a consolidated list of tools, tutorials, and references mentioned in the subsections:

1. Cable Management
   • Twisted Pair Drill Trick Video
   • American Wire Gauge Chart
2. Hardware-in-Loop and Software-in-Loop Testing
   • Realistic Low Latency HIL Environments
   • MathWorks Embedded Coder SIL Simulations
   • FPGA-in-the-Loop (FIL) Simulations
3. Mechanical Design
   • No external references provided; ensure iterative modeling and stress analysis practices.
4. PCB Design Notes
   • PCB Trace-Width Calculator
   • Eagle CAD Software
   • OSH Park Community PCB Service
   • FreeDFM Verification Tool
5. System-Subsystem-Interface Modeling
   • No Magic SysML Resources
   • Overview of UPDM for Systems Engineers

Development Needs

We welcome contributions to:

• Expand on advanced design techniques, such as hybrid modeling or emerging testing technologies.
• Include detailed case studies to demonstrate the application of these methodologies.
• Share community insights and lessons learned from real-world implementations.