By the time the students finish this design project, they should be able to:

• design and implement a complex system;
• organize the design process by decomposing the design problem into a set of smaller design problems;
• design and implement a robust wireless communication protocol;
• select and implement distributed control algorithms that run on a set of autonomous robots;
• integrate new sensors and actuators in an existing control system;
• report on the system design and its individual components.