I can create a system architecture and integration plan that exposes dependencies before building.
POE Unit 3 • Lesson 3.15
Mission Planning and System Architecture
Focus question: How should teams organize interfaces, dependencies, roles, and test gates before integration begins?
Mission Briefing
Today’s Plan
A focused sequence that advances the rover and VEX ground-support mission.
Opening promptConcept modelGuided practiceInteractive applicationEvidence checkExit ticket
Lesson Targets
What You Will Be Able to Do
Mission architecture and integration plan
The plan identifies interfaces, build order, owners, and verification gates.
Activity Flow
How the Lesson Moves
Each step builds the control-systems reasoning needed for today’s deliverable.
1. Decompose the system
Break the mission into rover, support, software, power, and interface subsystems.
2. Map interfaces
Define what crosses each boundary: motion, power, signal, or physical connection.
3. Schedule integration
Order work so each subsystem is verified before full mission testing.
Lesson Interactive
Mission architecture and integration plan Practice
Apply the lesson concept to an aerospace rover or VEX ground-support scenario. Use the feedback to correct reasoning before documenting the main deliverable.
Integration Principle
Each major subsystem should be defined and verified before the complete mission is attempted.
Requirements
Subsystems
Interfaces
Integration
Order the Planning Work
- Integrate rover and ground-support system
- Confirm measurable mission requirements
- Decompose mission into subsystems
- Define physical, electrical, and data interfaces
- Verify each subsystem independently
- Run controlled integrated mission tests
Plan from requirements to subsystems and interfaces, verify pieces, then integrate and test the complete mission.
Today’s Work
Main Deliverable
System Architecture and Integration Plan
Create one focused engineering artifact that demonstrates today’s learning.
- Create a subsystem diagram with all physical, electrical, and information interfaces labeled.
- Assign owners and define at least three integration gates with entry criteria.
Exit Ticket
Mission Debrief
State one control-systems or automation idea from today in your own words.
Name one measurement, calculation, trace, or test result that supports your design decision.
Identify one interface, logic, safety, or reliability risk to carry into the next lesson.
Resources
Lesson Resources
Lesson 3.15 PowerPoint
Use the presentation to review the lesson concepts, examples, and activity directions.
Principles of Engineering
Return to the POE course hub for units, resources, certifications, and course information.
Rover Mission + VEX Ground Support System
Use the integrated mission context when connecting logic, sensing, actuation, testing, and design-review evidence.