This week, Gatormatix has focused on drafting and further completing the SLDR in preparation for the presentation on Tuesday. Each team member has begun work on their respective parts and progress is continuing steadily.  A few changes have been made… Read More

This week, Gatormatix presented their prototype at Prototype Inspect Day (PID)! We as a team received very valuable feedback from all the judges during our presentations. Showing off our drone body as well as the different subsystems of our drone… Read More

This week, Gatormatix has been focusing on getting ready to present for Prototype Inspection Day (PID) on Tuesday. Getting our hands on a drone body, LiDAR, and other hardware components has given us the ability to have a semi-functional working… Read More

This week, Gatormatix met and determined an improved plan for developing our sensing system. Our original vision was a little hazy and involved working on the sensing, mapping, and drone hardware one after the other, but upon reconsidering the needs… Read More

Gatormatix has been working on their preliminary design architecture, making great strides towards a prototype goal in preparation for the Preliminary Design Review Peer review coming up next week. During the research process, the team was able to home in… Read More

As our project gets more complex, we need to become better at managing our tasks and assignments. As such, the team has begun filling out tasks for each other, allowing them to become much more efficient and independent in their… Read More

Week 4 featured another exciting meeting for the Gatormatix team and coach with Stephen and Ted Belser. The team has decided to pursue a LiDAR-based navigation approach, while also using it as the primary method to generate 3D models of… Read More

Gatormatix is born! We decided to name our team Gatormatix, combining ‘Gator’ for UF, with ‘Geomatics’, the study of geospatial data. It combines the two primary aspects of our identity as a team and our project. We finally had our… Read More