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Lab Spaces and Dimensions

Written by Max GardenswartzUpdated 2026-11-03

At a glance

Know how much room you have before planning an experiment. This page gives the usable size of the Indoor Lab and the Autonomy Park, and the axes of the Indoor Lab's motion-capture system.

The SCC Lab runs two spaces. The Autonomy Park is the outdoor space, a university resource. The Indoor Lab in MAE-A 313 is the indoor motion-capture lab.

Autonomy Park

Aerial view of the Autonomy Park: a netted flight area on a grassy field beside a curving gravel path and a road.

The Autonomy Park from the air.

The Autonomy Park is 240 ft (73 m) long, 60 ft (18 m) wide, and 20 ft (7 m) tall.

The Autonomy Park is located at the UF Energy Park, which Apple and Google Maps call the UF Solar Park. It's a fenced, gated facility.

Google Maps Apple Maps

Satellite map view of the Autonomy Park: a rectangular netted area on grass, held up by poles, beside a road, with a small building and a path at its west corner.

The Autonomy Park from above. The netted area is in the middle.

Autonomy Park Frame

The Autonomy Park frame is the frame used in the aero_common and other repositories.

  • Origin: the center of the Autonomy Park, at 29.628147° N, 82.360333° W. This coordinate was chosen by Max Gardenswartz on Google Earth very carefully and works well in experiments. Use it everywhere unless you really know what you're doing and find it needs to be (minorly) adjusted (e.g., testing CBFs with quadcopters).
  • x axis: along the long side of the Park (240 ft, 73 m). It is rotated 33.83072° southward from a true ENU frame (east, north, up).
  • y axis: along the short side of the Park (60 ft, 18 m), pointing northeast-ish.
  • z axis: up.
  • Sheds: both sheds sit at the -x end of the Park. The main shed is the one closer to the net; the storage shed is farther out.

Plan view of the Autonomy Park: a long rectangle with +x to the right along its long side, +y toward the top of the page, +z up out of the page, the origin at the center, two sheds beyond the -x end, and arrows for true north and east.

To get access to either space, see Lab Access.

Indoor Lab

Safety Nets Are Planned

Safety nets are planned as a future safety feature of the Indoor Lab. As of 2026-10-21 they are not installed. When and where they will go: Unknown.

The Indoor Lab in MAE-A 313: an open wooden floor with storage cabinets and shelves along the far wall and motion-capture cameras mounted on the ceiling.

The Indoor Lab (MAE-A 313). The black units on the ceiling are the motion-capture cameras.

The Indoor Lab (MAE-A 313) has about 18 ft by 9 ft by 44 ft (5.5 m, 2.75 m, 13.5 m) of space for autonomous experiments.

The origin of the mocap system was calibrated so that, the space is divided around it as follows:

Axis Positive direction Space on the positive side Space on the negative side Total
x From inside the building out the west window 9 ft (2.75 m) 9 ft (2.75 m) 18 ft (5.5 m)
y Up 7 ft (2.1 m) None. The origin is on the floor. 7 ft (2.1 m)
z North 20 ft (6 m) 24 ft (7.5 m) 44 ft (13.5 m)

Plan view of the Indoor Lab with north up. The positive x axis points left, out the west window; the positive z axis points up the page, north; the origin is 9 ft from each side wall and 24 ft from the south end. A door in the east wall near the north end opens inward to the hallway.

Plan view, drawn to scale from the table above. West is on the left because north is at the top.

These axes are not ENU

The axes do not follow a convention like ENU. They are simply how OptiTrack Motive, the mocap software, sets them up. See Mocap Calibration for how the origin and axes are set.