Loop

Development cycle

You might say: iteration loop

The development cycle changes software, tests it in simulation, runs a hardware shakeout, deploys, logs failures and feeds the evidence into the next change.

What it does

It converts field failures into controlled iterations rather than one-off fixes.

Ask

How long is one iteration, and what evidence gates the next field deployment?

Loop: cycle

Simulation → Field testing → Logging and replay ↺

Sources

1. Marco Tranzatto, Mihir Dharmadhikari, Lukas Bernreiter and others, Team CERBERUS Wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Technical Overview and Lessons Learned, Sec. 4.1.1, weekly shakeouts, integration tests, version pinning and deploymentsSimulation can help in stress testing the methods, debugging minor errors, and tuning parameters of the algorithms.
2. NVIDIA, What Is Isaac Sim?, Simulation development loop and software-in-the-loop testingSimulation Development Loop Bring assets in, configure the robot and scene, simulate behavior, then connect external stacks.

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