Despite the Final Design Review (FDR) arriving quickly, the team was well prepared for the event and had a great time. The day began with setup, and liaison only presentations, followed by fantastic presentations. Unfortunately, all good things come to… Read More

This week, the team has mostly finished their drone platform. There are still small modifications that need to be made in order to complete their design, but the majority of the key parts are complete. This is great news for… Read More

This week, the team is making their final push to get their deliverables turned in, in preparation for the final design review just 3 weeks from now. These deliverables include the multi-volume documentation describing the entire project and how it… 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 the team continued their work with attempting to strengthen the drone platform after some of the damage experienced from the previous flight tests. Nothing critical was damaged, except for the drone body, but the team is working on… Read More

The team was able to complete their first flight test, where they learned very valuable things about the operation of the drone. Firstly, they got a gauge for how to control it with the manual controller — how sensitive the… Read More

This week, the team presented to the second qualification review board. The feedback was very important, as the board indicated that our project is very unlikely to be finished in the timeline we have given due to the complexity of… Read More

This week, the team was able to finish up most of the drone construction, along with getting their flight controller connected to the antennas we will use for communicating with the drone. There are still some missing components that were… Read More

The team has finally completed the drone platform, with all critical components connected. This leads the team to prepare for their first test in the Malachowsky Drone lab. This is critical to staying on track with the project, since there… Read More

The team has made significant progress on gathering data via the LiDAR component we will strap to our drone. The picture above shows a still image of a scan that was collected of Library West, and then mapped to software… Read More

This week, the team presented to the QRB board about the status of their project! They gained very good feedback about their progress, learned about some issues with their component purchases. Based on this, the team is reevaluating the need… Read More

As the semester begins to ramp up it’s pace, the team is dedicating time to picking up where they left off in the design process. There is still lots of work to do, so the team has been spending more… Read More

Gatormatix is back and ready for the new year! We have returned from the holidays, and today marks the end of the first week of classes. The team has spent time this past week regrouping and redefining the action plan… Read More