Systems Engineering and Robotics: A Survey

The systems engineering and robotics communities evolve in parallel, although they share common concepts and related issues. This article proposes a state-of-the-art of publications tackling both Systems Engineering (SE) and Robotics, to identify added value of Systems Engineering for Robotics, and lessons learnt for Systems Engineering from robotics use cases. In the framework of the Systems Engineering community, this synthesis of works from academics, industrial and government agencies should ease the building of SE-based seamless integrated framework for architecture, design, verification and validation of heterogeneous swarms of collaborating unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.