Summer School for Systems and Software Engineering in Robotics 2026

The 3rd edition of the Systems Software Engineering in Robotics Summer School is a fun week of lectures, keynotes, hands-on sessions and social activities around robot software engineering, hosted by the TU Delft Robotics Institute at Robohouse, in the campus of the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands. The school takes place from 29 June to 3 July 2026.

The theme of the school incorporate “systems engineering” from this edition, with a focus on Cognitive Robot Systems Engineering based on the methods developed in the EU HORIZON Europe project CoreSense (https://coresense.eu/).

One of the highlights of the school is the hands-on the participants enjoyed using the Mirte Master robot, thanks to the TU Delft Robotics MIRTE team (https://mirte.org/).

Program

• Day 1 – June 29th: Robots in Society
  • Introduction to the school
  • How to study future human robot interaction in the wild?
  • Democratizing the use of robots
  • MIRTE Master Setup
    • Setting up Mirte
    • Use Mirte with Docker
• Day 2 – June 30th: Programming and Planning for Robots
  • Intro to ROS 2
    • Preparation
  • Planning and Deliberation with PDDL
  • Planning and Deliberation with PlanSys2
  • Planning and Deliberation on the MIRTE
    • MIRTE with PDDL (Instructions)
• Day 3 – July 1st: Testing, Validation and Cognitive Architectures
  • Lecture: Validation & Testing in Robotics
    • Relevant References
  • Tutorial: Validation & Testing in Robotics
    • RoboVAST Tutorial
  • Keynote: Cognitive Architectures for Robust and Reliable Robotics
    • Relevant References
  • Tutorial: Cognitive Architectures for Robust and Reliable Robotics
• Day 4 – July 2nd: Cognitive Robots and Systems Engineering
  • Developing Cognitive Robots with CoreSense
  • Model-based system Engineering
    • Preparation
• Day 5 – July 3rd: Hands-On
  • Hands-On Challenge!