[Webinar] February 26th, 2026 - MBSE for Two Student Space Robotics Projects

Hello everyone, I’m pleased to invite you to our upcoming Capella webinar, “MBSE for Two Student Space Robotics Projects,” taking place on Thursday, February 26, 2026 · 9:00 a.m. Paris (GMT 1:00).

Student space robotics projects, such as lunar rovers, involve significant complexity in design, integration, and project management. When requirements, interfaces, and risks are spread across multiple spreadsheets, defects become harder to detect and system understanding difficult to share.

This webinar will showcase how student teams working on two different space projects quickly got started with Capella to apply MBSE and Arcadia, structure complex systems, improve collaboration, and reduce design risks under tight academic constraints.

Implementation of MBSE In A Student-Led Lunar Rover Team presented by Kaylee Li and Aruk Pavalachandran (Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative)
This talk presents the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering with the Arcadia method within SIRI, a multidisciplinary student-led team. Using Capella and SysML-based modeling, the rover system is developed across Arcadia’s four phases: Operational Analysis, System Analysis, Logical Architecture, and Physical Architecture. This structured approach supports requirement traceability, clarifies subsystem interactions, improves design consistency, and reduces design conflicts, leading to a smoother assembly, integration, and testing phase. The result is an Arcadia-driven MBSE framework that can be transferred to other student-led aerospace projects.

From Spreadsheets to Capella: How a Student Team Built a Rover and a Drone in One Year presented by Andreea Lita (ISAE Supaero)
This session presents how a novice student team from ISAE Supaero adopted Capella within a single academic year to structure the development of both a rover and a drone for the European Rover Challenge. By mapping project rules and design activities across Capella’s Operational, System, Logical, and Physical layers, the team identified design gaps well before hardware freeze, shortened decision cycles, and enabled clear walkthroughs for both technical and non-technical audiences, despite the absence of dedicated systems engineering support. This experience shows that Capella can also act as an accessible backbone for student teams operating under tight budgets and timelines.

If you have any questions about the webinar and its subject, feel free to leave them here and they will be addressed during the event!

Don’t miss our webinar!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Link to register for the webinar: https://www.bigmarker.com/obeo/mbse-for-two-student-space-robotics-projects?utm_bmcr_source=Forum

Dear all, there were many questions at this webinar.

Many thanks to the speakers and thank you to the participants for sharing their thoughts and asking questions to the speakers.

Below are his answers to the questions that could not be answered live :

  • If you do project again, will you do it differently ?

With what I know now? Definetly. But it was no other way of doing it at the time of beginning the project. I didn’t have someone to teach me how to do a model in Capella. Kaylee Li was actually the only person working on something similar with previous experience that was kind enough to share with me how such a project would look like.

  • How did you define your scope of work ( PDR, CDR, DDR…) ?

The scope of the work was to create, between PDR and CDR, a lightweight model-based model through which the entire team could follow

  • How did you relate your SOW with MBSE ?

The statement of work? We didn’t have a dedicated SOW. But I would say that yes, the description of the project’s requirements was linked on how we managed the diagram’s logic.

  • Would be nice to know what resources you used, standards, etc

I asked the very kind Marketing Manager from Obeo, mister Frédéric Madiot, for “some guidance” and he shared with me the following resources. They were my main used resource and the available Arcadia Methodology + the rule book from the European Rover Competition.

“To learn more about Capella and simulation, I invite you to have a look at these resources:

Creating a Bridge Between Capella and System Composer or Simulink

By Fabian Tutschka, MathWorks
https://fr.mathworks.com/company/technical-articles/creating-a-bridge-between-capella-and-system-composer-or-simulink.html

What if you could simulate your Capella model ? Bridging Capella with Simulink

By Pierre Nowodzienski (Thales)
https://youtu.be/PXnMfgEoTGM

Model Simulation and Analysis in Capella

By Kai Liu (Glaway)
https://bit.ly/capella_webinar_13102022_video

Simulation with Python and MATLAB® in Capella

By Renfei Xu (PGM)
https://youtu.be/UiE0l-zdabY

From Model based to Model and Simulation based Systems Architectures

By Pierre Nowodzienski (Thales) and Juan Navas (Thales)
resources/pdf/IS_2022_Paper_128_Presentation.pdf

Functional Chain Approach for Avionics Modelling
and Simulation

By P. Boan (CNES) and B. Attanasio (Thales Alenia Space)
https://indico.esa.int/event/386/contributions/
6298/attachments/4293/6458/1525%20-%20Functional%20Chain%20Approach%20for%
20Avionics%20Modelling%20and%20Simulation.pdf

Modeling & Simulation of CubeSat-based Missions’ Concept of Operations

By Danilo Pallamin de Almeida (Endurosat)
https://youtu.be/HhB-Ao1tpaY

Enabling MBSE with Simulation to Perform System Analysis for SOLARIS

By Serena Brizio, Lorenzo Guarino (Thales Alenia Space), Stephan van Beek, Marco Bimbi (MathWorks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DB69tsRBR0&
list=PLfrEYVpSGVLyyeJC_iAArhq0Hl5Cm74-H