{"id":1121,"date":"2026-02-06T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:06:50","slug":"week-4-getting-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/2026\/02\/06\/week-4-getting-somewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Getting Somewhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/229\/2026\/02\/Unilidar-Point-Cloud-Output.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/229\/2026\/02\/Unilidar-Point-Cloud-Output.png 960w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/229\/2026\/02\/Unilidar-Point-Cloud-Output-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/229\/2026\/02\/Unilidar-Point-Cloud-Output-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/229\/2026\/02\/Unilidar-Point-Cloud-Output-324x210.png 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">3D Point Cloud generated from LiDAR Component<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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 using a SLAM algorithm that uses LiDAR data only. This is very significant as the proof-of-concept exists and the next steps are to simply get the software running on the target platform we expect to use. The team expects to begin the handheld testing of their drone platform soon before getting the software platform integrated with the drone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/2026\/02\/06\/week-4-getting-somewhere\/\" aria-label=\"Read \\\"Week 4: Getting Somewhere!\\\" class=\"read-more\">Read&nbsp;More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springsemester","tag-week-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ippd.ufl.edu\/blogs\/ay2526team13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}