matom.ai

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a R&D engineer at Evocortex. We offer custom software solutions and adjustable robot platforms.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire matom.ai, and what were your goals?

The goal of our project was to extend an existing mapping software for mobile robot platforms to be able to cope with dynamic changes in the environment.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

The contact was referred to us by CIS Electronics Engineering.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The project included the following steps:

• Literature research to find and asses exiting approaches.
• Implementation of an initial solution. This included the adjustment of other affected components.
• The functionality was verified through long running tests in a simulation environment.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

One senior engineer work on the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The implemented solution is now a part of the development version our mapping and localization software. This software is currently undergoing long term testing including in an industrial environment. The results of the project were very promising.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Since the project only included only one engineer from matom.ai, we were able to use more lightweight project management. This included:

• The use of Kaban boards to lay out milestones and corresponding tasks.
• Regular meetings via MS Teams to track the project progress.
• For all issues raised in between email communication was used.
• A final presentation via MS Teams and a final report for the project results.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

This question is hard to answer because we worked directly with the engineer in question. As stated above CIS provided the contact and matom.ai was not directly involved in the project.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

While the resulting implementation works very well the code quality could be improved. Nevertheless, the project yielded valuable insights beyond its scope that helped us to isolate and fix exiting problems.