Using systems engineering for a requirement-based design support for autonomous robots

Rising Complexity is a major challenge for the development of product systems. The aim of handling this complexity is to achieve a high quality, to develop and produce at acceptable cost and to prevent unintended incidents like failures. Especially in the field of robotics it is a serious task to fulfill these requirements regarding tasks of the autonomous orientation in a dynamic product surrounding etc. In addition, these robots, e.g. an autonomous vacuum cleaner, must meet a certain price segment. For this complex challenge the Generic System Engineering (GSE), which is based on a common model of thinking and standardized procedure, is focused on. Based on the system thinking an idea is developed for an approach to handle the aforementioned challenges. This idea includes a combination of a system model and a procedure to achieve a requirements fulfilling design without an over-design to prevent high costs by limit the considerate part of system over functionality.