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

1) Implementation of MBSE In A Student-Led Lunar Rover Team

By Kaylee Li and Aruk Pavalachandran (Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative)

This first talk presents the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering with the Arcadia method within the Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (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, and improves design consistency.

The result is an Arcadia-driven MBSE framework that can be transferred to other student-led aerospace projects. The study also highlights MBSE’s role in reducing design conflicts and improving collaboration, leading to a smoother assembly, integration, and testing phase.

2) From Spreadsheets to Capella: How a Student Team Built a Rover and a Drone in One Year

By Andreaa Lita (ISAE Supaero)

This second talk 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, already widely used in large aerospace organizations, can also act as an accessible backbone for student teams operating under tight budgets and timelines.

Presenters
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Kaylee Li
Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative
Kaylee is the Founder & Project Lead of the Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative, SGAC Asia-Pacific Regional Executive Secretary, and the PR & Communications Team Lead for the Space Generation Congress 2025. She has worked across both defence and commercial space sectors, contributing to projects ranging from the multibillion-dollar JP9102 satellite program at Optus Satellite & Space Systems to Australia’s first lunar rover, Roo-ver, at Lunar Outpost Oceania.
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Aruk Pavalachandran
Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative
Aruk is a final-year undergraduate student studying Aerospace Engineering (Honors) at the University of Sydney. He's the Lead Systems Engineer at Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (SIRI), a student team designing and building a Lunar rover for the Australian Rover Challenge.
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Andreea Lita
ISAE Supaero
Andreea Lita has three years of experience in space systems engineering and holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering, specialising in Space Systems Design and Operations, as well as Robotics and Automation. Working at SES - Redu Space Services, she currently supports ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme as a CubeSat Systems Engineer and Environmental Testing Engineer, and has contributed to two successfully launched missions with experimental payloads (on ISS and on the TEC's NYX capsule mission).
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