Fall Semester

All bark all bite

This week the Addtronics team tackled the Systems Level Design Report (SLDR) presentation. The event was held on Tuesday December, 7th in the Reitz Union where many of the teams’ liaisons and coaches attended their presentations. During this presentation we… Read More

Who Let The Dogs Out

After completing more extensive testing of the integrated components, the Addtronics team dove right into prototype inspection day. For our demo, we gave a quick introduction of who we are and the project our sponsor has tasked to complete throughout… Read More

Gone To The Dogs

Continuing on from the previous week, the Addtronics team has continued to develop their prototype inspection day plan to share with the prototype day judges as well as our coach and liaison. This week we have continued advancing our software… Read More

Every Dog Has Its Day

This week the Addtronics team has been hard at work with prototype building and prototype testing. Continuing from our milestones and goals from the previous week, we’ve been able to incorporate the majority of our prototype plan to increase time… Read More

Working like a Dog

This week the Addtronics team has been hard at work , but who says work can’t be fun? Despite all our progress, the team still got the chance to with enjoy a nice Florida fall day together (see above picture)!… Read More

In the Dog House

This week the Addtronics team took on the second round of preliminary design report (PDR) presentations (our presentation title slide is featured in the picture above). After incorporating feedback from our peer-reviewed presentation the previous week, we were able to… Read More

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

This week Addtronics has been pertinaciously working on advancements on every aspect of the quadruped project and we are very excited to share our substantial progress. Firstly, we started our week off strong by successfully finishing our preliminary design report… Read More

Throw the dog a bone

Following from the previous week, Addtronics has continued testing extensively. We were able to obtain joint movement of the robotic arm and will now begin doing payload tests for both robots to finalize some specifications in our designs for integration.… Read More

Playing fetch

This week Addtronics made significant progress in both organization and physical testing. In terms of organization, we completed a project roadmap specifying the timeline in which we plan to complete major parts of our project, including time for modifications and… Read More

Walking the Dog

As promised last week, this week our team headed out to the field with our liaisons to demo our robotic dog for the first time! While focusing on safety, we were each able to practice controlling the dog and test… Read More

Seven Heads are Better Than One

Continuing from last week, the Addtronics team has firmly determined key aspects of the project such as stakeholders and their wants and needs. From this information we’ve been able to create a thorough and organized document containing critical requirements and… Read More

Addtronics In Motion

As we end another exciting week of our project, we have finalized our team’s name and logo! A formal hello from the Addtronics team (check out our logo above). Our interdisciplinary team is composed of seven senior engineering majors who… Read More

“Add”ressing the start of the semester

As the first group of students returning back to campus after being virtual throughout the pandemic, Addtronics has begun their project journey with FPL! In these initial weeks, our team has spent some time familiarizing ourselves with each other and… Read More