Design
Sketch and model every part in Fusion 360 — constraints, parametric parts.
Design to Simulation:
Mobile Robot Development
using Fusion 360 & ROS 2
Design, assemble, simulate and drive one robot — on campus, with the exact tools industry uses.
₹20,000· All-inclusive
In partnership with
TIH at IIT Palakkad
TIH at IIT Palakkad
5Days on campusFull immersion, not evening Zoom calls.
15Hands-on sessionsEvery one builds on the last file.
1Robot, end-to-endDesigned, simulated and driven by you.
How enrolment works
Four steps.
Four steps.
₹100 to begin.
A small fee opens your application, admissions confirm your seat, and only then do you pay for the week.
01
Pay application fee and start
Pay a minimal ₹100 application fee to start your application as a serious learner.
02
Fill the application
A few questions about you, what you’ve used before and the week on campus.
03
Your seat is confirmed
Admissions read your answers and email you — usually within two working days. If required, the admissions team will call you to confirm your details.
04
Pay and enrol
Pay for the week from your application. Joining instructions and the setup guide reach your inbox.
Only the ₹100 application fee is paid before your seat is confirmed.
The workshop
One robot, built the way
One robot, built the way
industry actually builds them.
Most courses teach CAD or ROS. Almost none teach the handoff between them — which is exactly where real robotics projects stall. Here, one robot travels the whole pipeline with you, and every session builds on the file you made in the last one.
Assemble
Joints and motion relationships turn loose parts into a machine.
Convert
Export meshes and describe your robot in URDF — the bridge to ROS.
Simulate
Launch in Gazebo, visualize in RViz, with real physics.
Drive
Teleop your robot with ros2_control. Demo it on the final day.
Day-by-day curriculum
Five days will change
Five days will change
how you build.
Fifteen hands-on sessions. One robot — sketch to simulation.
Introduction to Fusion 360
Get fluent in the CAD environment and model your first robot components from scratch.
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Session 1
- Introduction to CAD and the Fusion 360 interface
- Sketching, constraints and parametric design
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Session 2
- Part modeling: extrude, revolve, fillet, chamfer
- Hole and pattern features
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Session 3
- Creating individual components for a differential drive mobile robot
Mobile Robot Design
Turn loose parts into a working assembly with real joints and motion.
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Session 1
- Components, joints and motion relationships
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Session 2
- Designing and assembling the differential drive robot
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Session 3
- Open Q&A on Fusion 360 and your own assembly
CAD to ROS 2 Workflow
The bridge most people never cross — take your CAD model into a simulation-ready format.
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Session 1
- Preparing the robot for simulation: mass properties
- Coordinate frames and mesh export (STL)
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Session 2
- Organizing robot assets and preparing for URDF conversion
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Session 3
- Ubuntu 22.04 overview and ROS 2 Humble installation
- Workspace creation, Gazebo install, required ROS packages
Robot Description & Simulation
Describe your robot in ROS 2 and watch it come alive in a physics simulator.
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Session 1
- ROS 2 fundamentals: nodes, topics, services
- Packages and launch files
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Session 2
- Creating the robot URDF/Xacro model from your Fusion 360 design
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Session 3
- Launching the robot in Gazebo, visualizing in RViz
- TF tree and robot state publisher
Robot Control & Demonstration
Drive it. Sense with it. Then demo the robot you built from a blank sketch.
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Session 1
- Differential drive kinematics
- ros2_control and controller configuration
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Session 2
- Teleoperation and Python scripting
- Simulating LiDAR and IMU sensors
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Session 3
- Final project demonstration and testing
- Troubleshooting, Q&A and wrap-up
The campus
Five days inside a
Five days inside a
working robotics facility.
You'll build at IIT Palakkad Technology Innovation Hub Foundation — with its FabLab, motion-capture and testing facilities around you, not a rented classroom.
Programme leadership
Backed by IIT Palakkad
Backed by IIT Palakkad
Technology Innovation Hub.
A Government of India Technology Innovation Hub with a full FabLab and deep-tech research base.
Dr. Saishyam Narayanan
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Rijesh Krishna
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Binu K Baby
Manager, Technology Facilities
Dr. Rajeswari R
Manager, HR & Administration
Who it's for
Built for people
Built for people
who want to build.
No prior robotics background is required. The five days are paced for people arriving from adjacent disciplines.
Engineering students
Mechanical, ECE, CSE or mechatronics students who want a robotics project they can actually show.
Researchers
Anyone who needs to prototype and simulate a robot before committing to hardware.
Working professionals
Engineers moving into robotics, automation or simulation-heavy roles.
Educators
Faculty who want a repeatable CAD-to-simulation teaching pipeline.
Learning outcomes
What you'll walk away
What you'll walk away
with — on paper and in hand.
Nine concrete capabilities, each practised on the robot you build across the week — and a certificate issued with the Hub to show for it.
- Design components and assemblies in Fusion 360
- Apply parametric CAD techniques for robotics
- Create a complete differential drive mobile robot
- Export CAD models for robotics applications
- Understand the structure of URDF and robot description files
- Create ROS 2 workspaces and packages
- Visualise and simulate robots in Gazebo and RViz
- Control a mobile robot using ROS 2
- Understand the complete CAD-to-simulation workflow used in robotics
Your credential
The Certificate You
The Certificate You
Walk Away With.
A Certificate of Completion issued in collaboration with the IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation for the five-day Design to Simulation workshop.
- Shareable on LinkedIn and ready for your portfolio
Tools you'll use
Industry-standard
Industry-standard
stack.
The same toolchain robotics teams run in production — nothing bespoke, nothing you cannot keep using afterwards.
Autodesk Fusion 360CAD
ROS 2 Humble HawksbillMiddleware
Gazebo Classic 11Simulation
Ubuntu 22.04 · Windows 11OS
Visual Studio CodeIDE
Bring a laptop. Installation instructions are shared before the workshop.
Prerequisites
Start from
Start from
wherever you are.
No prior robotics background is required — these simply help you get more out of the hands-on sessions.
Beginner friendly
Nothing on this list
Nothing on this list
is a gate.
This includes dedicated setup support, and every session starts from the file the last one produced — so nobody is left behind mid-build.
- Basic computer proficiency (Windows or Linux)
- Linux command line helps, but isn't required
- Basic Python or C++ is recommended
- CAD or engineering drawing exposure is a plus
- Interest in robotics, automation or mechatronics
- No prior ROS 2, Gazebo or Fusion 360 experience
Programme fee
All-inclusive.
All-inclusive.
Only ₹100 to apply.
The programme fee is paid only after your seat is confirmed.
Apply for just₹100
Application fee, non-refundable, paid when you apply.The programme fee is due only once your seat is confirmed.
- 5 dayson campus at IIT Palakkad
- 15 sessionsone robot, designed to driven
- Stay & mealsincluded for the full week
What's covered
- All 15 sessions across five days on campus
- All meals on campus
- Accommodation for 5 days
- Certificate of Participation with TIH, IIT Palakkad
Take a Quick Break
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Can you outfly
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26 – 30 October 2026
15 sessions
Limited seats
Reserve your seat
Apply for the
October cohort.
Answer a few questions about you and the week. Admissions confirm your seat, and only then do you pay. Nothing is charged now.