Certificate in Autonomous Navigation and Robotic Systems Engineering with ROS 2

Course Overview This professional certificate provides practical knowledge and hands-on experience in designing, building, and operating autonomous mobile robot systems on the ROS 2 middleware stack. Participants will learn how the navigation problem decomposes into localisation, mapping, global and local planning, control, and recovery behaviour, and how these components are configured, tuned, and integrated in practice. The course covers SLAM and map management, costmap architecture and layer configuration, planner and controller selection, behaviour tree design, parameter tuning methodology, and the middleware concerns that determine whether a system performs reliably in the field. Through simulation laboratories, structured tuning exercises, fault-injection scenarios, and a full integration project, participants will develop the competencies required to move a navigation stack from demonstration to dependable operation. Suitable For • Robotics Software Engineers • Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Developers • Navigation and Motion Planning Engineers • Systems Integration Engineers • Warehouse and Intralogistics Automation Teams • Agricultural and Field Robotics Engineers • Inspection and Security Robotics Teams • Defence and Unmanned Ground Vehicle Engineers • Embedded Software Engineers moving into robotics • Test and Field Operations Engineers • Technical Project and Programme Managers • Research Engineers and PhD Candidates • Robotics Trainers and Academic Staff • Technology Evaluators and Procurement Specialists • Anyone deploying mobile robots in real environments Course Profile Level: Professional Development to Advanced Delivery: Face-to-face, Online or Blended