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Robotics Figure Maker: build any robotics figure for control and autonomy research

Perception-to-control stacks, sensor-fusion pipelines, control-loop block diagrams, PLC and SCADA automation schematics, and embodied-AI policy architectures — describe the system with text to figure and LabFig renders a clean, journal-quality robotics figure in seconds. Have a hand-drawn block diagram already? Convert it with sketch to figure, then reroute any signal line on the vector canvas. This robotics figure maker is built for robotics researchers and control and automation engineers shipping a robotics figure to IEEE T-RO, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, and RSS who would rather tune their controller than fight with Illustrator. Every block, signal arrow, and label in the robotics figure stays editable afterward.

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A robotics figure of an autonomous-driving perception-to-control stack with sensor suite and pipeline, generated by LabFig

A robotics figure of a closed-loop PID control block diagram with step response, generated by LabFig

Perception–Control · IEEE T-RO

Autonomy stacksControl loopsPLC & SCADA

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Make a robotics figure

Describe a control loop, autonomy stack, pipeline, or state machine — or pick an example below — and render a clean, journal-ready robotics figure right here.

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Examples

Start from a robotics example

Click any example to load it into the workbench above, then tweak the wording and generate.

How it works

From a block-diagram sketch to a publication-ready robotics figure in three steps

Describe the stack in plain language, let LabFig lay out the blocks and signal flow of your robotics figure, and polish the details — all in one place, no design software.

Describe the figure you need in plain language

1Step 1

Describe the system

Name the stages and how signals flow between them — LiDAR and camera into a fusion module, then perception, planning, and a low-level controller out to the actuators; or a plant, sensor, controller, and feedback path. Autonomy stacks, control loops, sensor-fusion graphs, and PLC sequences all work.

LabFig generates a publication-quality draft figure

2Step 2

Generate a draft

LabFig reads the control and robotics terms in your description and renders a clean, journal-quality robotics figure with blocks, summing junctions, signal arrows, feedback paths, and labels already arranged the way a reviewer at ICRA or T-RO expects.

Refine on the vector canvas and export to SVG, PDF or PNG

3Step 3

Refine and export

Rename a module, recolor a subsystem, or reroute a feedback line on the vector canvas, then export SVG, PDF, or 300dpi PNG straight into your manuscript, thesis, or grant.

Why LabFig for robotics

A robotics figure that speaks the language of control and autonomy.

A robotics figure maker that understands sense-plan-act stacks, feedback loops, and industrial automation — and outputs an editable, submission-ready robotics figure instead of a flat AI picture.

Autonomy & perception

Perception-to-control stacks, laid out cleanly

Describe an autonomous-driving stack or an embodied-AI policy and LabFig arranges sensors, a sensor-fusion module, perception, mapping and localization, planning, and the low-level controller into the kind of robotics figure you see in CoRL and IEEE T-RO — with the data flow and module boundaries reading exactly right.

Autonomous-driving stacksSensor fusionPolicy architecturesSLAM & localization

Control & automation

From control loops to PLC and SCADA

Need a closed-loop block diagram with a plant, controller, summing junction, and feedback path? Or a PLC ladder-logic and SCADA schematic for an industrial cell? LabFig drafts the control-loop and automation diagrams that control and automation engineers rely on, with summing junctions, transfer-function blocks, and signal arrows intact.

Control-loop block diagramsPLC ladder logicSCADA schematicsState machines

Editable output

Editable vectors, not flat pixels

Every block label, signal arrow, and subsystem of the robotics figure stays editable after generation. Fix a gain symbol, swap a palette to match your figure set, or select one branch of the pipeline and regenerate it — no need to redraw the whole stack.

SVGPDFPNG · 300dpiVector canvas

Figure templates

Start from a robotics figure template

Pick a robotics figure starting point — autonomous-systems stacks, industrial-automation schematics, or ML architecture diagrams — and load it straight into the workbench to make it yours.

Robotics figure FAQ

Common questions about making a robotics figure and control system diagrams with LabFig.

Autonomous-driving and perception-to-control stacks, sensor-fusion pipelines, control-loop block diagrams, embodied-AI policy architectures, SLAM and localization graphs, robot kinematic and coordinate-frame diagrams, finite-state machines, and PLC ladder-logic or SCADA industrial-automation schematics. If it appears in a robotics or control paper as a system diagram, you can describe it and generate the robotics figure.

Yes — this is one of the most common uses. Name the plant, the controller, the sensor, and the feedback path (for example 'reference into a summing junction, error to a PID controller, output to the plant, measured state fed back through a sensor') and LabFig arranges the blocks, summing junctions, transfer-function labels, and signal arrows into a clean closed-loop robotics figure you can refine on the canvas. The same approach is covered in our guide to AI figures for machine learning papers.

It excels at sense-plan-act stacks. Describe your sensors (LiDAR, cameras, radar, IMU), a sensor-fusion module, then perception, mapping and localization, planning, and a low-level controller out to the actuators, and LabFig lays out the robotics figure's data flow and module boundaries the way reviewers at CoRL, ICRA, IROS, and RSS expect. You can label interfaces, mark real-time loops, and group subsystems on the vector canvas. When the learned-policy or perception network needs its own diagram, the machine learning diagram maker draws those architectures in the same editable style.

LabFig produces a schematic-level robotics figure that follows common publishing conventions for resolution, typography, and color, and exports SVG, PDF, and 300dpi PNG. It excels at the conceptual, architectural, and control-flow figures these venues expect; for exact transfer functions, precise circuit symbols, or to-scale CAD, generate the robotics figure layout first and fine-tune specific labels and symbols on the vector canvas. Always check your target venue's figure guidelines before submission.

Yes. The robotics figure is editable vector art, not a flat image. You can rename any module or block, recolor a subsystem, move and reroute signal and feedback arrows, relabel a summing junction or gain, or select a single branch of the pipeline and regenerate just that part with a new instruction — so iterating on a reviewer's comment takes seconds, not a redraw.

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