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