GFOSS - Open Technology Alliance

Mentors: Student: Nikolaos Kokkinis

<p>Implement two humanoid environments for the deepbots framework, using KONDO's KHR-3HV and Nao as agents. Work on zero-shot learning and extending the current API allowing other users to create new environments easily.</p>

Mentors: Student: Georgios Giannakoulias

<p>The goal of the project is to develop a low-cost DIY robot kit, including the designs, tutorials and use-case scenarios. The DIY robot kit should be 3d-printed, assembled and operated using basic electronics and sensors.</p>

Mentors: Student: Ioannis Sina

<p>An annotation tool helps people (without the need for specific knowledge) to mark a segment of an audio file (waveform), an image or text (and others) in order to specify the section's properties. Most annotation tools lack the multi-user feature where multiple annotators can annotate a shared file. In this project, we will try to create a sound annotation tool whose system will contain two types of users. The first one is the annotator who will be able to annotate assigned tasks (audio or video files) and export them in multiple formats (JSON, CSV, XML). The other one is the manager who will be able to create projects, add audio files to them (tasks), assign tasks (annotations) to annotators and edit completed tasks. We will follow a strategy where annotators will not be able to see marked segments of other annotators in order to prevent them from annotating based on what the other annotators have tagged.</p>

Mentors: Student: Ilias Kyranas

<p>The Sastix-CMS is a CMS solution based on the robust Spring Boot framework. Up until now the CMS provided a REST API offering functionality for managing resources, using a distributed cache system to consume them. The goal of this project is consisted of creating a frontend client to consume resources from the CMS server and providing the monitoring capabilities to handle high volumes of traffic. The frontend implementation should provide a common interface for Administrators and Content Creators/Consumers of the Sastix CMS and extend the current capabilities of the server to support multitenant API calls. The provided solution will support multirole access and authorization, simple, secure flows and multi-device deployment using Flutter. The solution will provide monitoring solutions for the application and scalability using Docker and Kubernetes. The work includes tools to benchmark the deployments, deployment artifacts to easily deploy the stack and thorough documentation of the functionality using Docusaurus.</p>

Mentors: Student: Vedant Shah

<p>Deepbots is a wrapper framework for the open-source robotics simulator Webots. It acts as a middleware between the simulator and Reinforcement Learning use cases. For eg. it can be used to implement and test different Reinforcement Learning algorithms by using the different robot and world models as an environment. The API is very similar to the standardly used OpenAI gym environments. The goal of this project is to extend deepbots to integrate and facilitate implementation of different evolutionary algorithms and test them in Webots using deepbots.</p>