JdeRobot - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Mentors: Student: Utkarsh A. Mishra

<p>Behavior Metrics comprises a wide range of robots with the pipeline completely set for various Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) setups. With its main concern over the racing track, the Formula 1 (F1) setting solves the line following objective well. However, the presence of 2 separate pipelines for RL and DL is confusing to the users. The DL base works on the JDERobot app, while the RL base takes the privilege of gym-gazebo. These two bases are unable to communicate with each other. Also, the current framework does not leverage the full capabilities of testing scenarios and robots. Apart from line-following, F1 racing for autonomous maneuvers and drone racing has gained much popularity. Although these settings are highly derivative, it requires few significant changes in the control architecture and modularity wrt multiple robot settings. This project’s primary goal is to move towards more extensive support and documentation of Behavior Studio to suit the same RL environment or DL brain to multiple robots with continuous control integration. The advantages of such changes will make the framework more user-friendly and adaptive to various tasks and robot settings.</p>

Mentors: Student: Chandan

<p>Robotics Academy is fully oriented to service Robotics and Computer Vision. It comprises a collection of exercises, including recent service robot applications in real life, with different robots such as autonomous cars, drones, or vacuum cleaners. Industrial Robotics is an open-source collection of resources for JdeRobot and exercises for autonomous robotics manipulation. Last year, they incorporated three exercises based on robot manipulation and navigation. Now, the plan is to extend these exercises to Web Templates. For each exercise, a template performs all the auxiliary tasks such as the graphical interface, connection to the sensors and actuators, timing of the code, etc. This also hosts the student’s code. Using this template, the student focuses on robot intelligence (for instance, perception and control algorithms) without wasting time on auxiliary details with little educational value.</p>

Mentors: Student: Siddharth Saha (trunc8)

<p>JdeRobot's Robotics-Academy has the Single and Multi-robot Amazon Warehouse exercises implemented for the gzweb version using ROS2. I would accomplish the following advancements over the summer: Construct a RADI for ROS2 Foxy; Extend the warehouse exercises to the web-based template; Leverage Navigation2 features to improve the solution to the Multi-robot exercise.</p>

Mentors: Student: Suhas G

<p><strong>VisualCircuit</strong> allows users to program robotic intelligence using a visual language which consists of blocks and wires, similar to electronic circuits. Currently it's a desktop application released for Linux based on IceStudio which uses AngularJS. The aim of this project is to make a similar web application so that users do not have to do any installation and use newer frameworks on the front-end since EOL for AngularJS is in December 2021. The requirements of the project are:</p> <ol> <li>Make a web app that has all the functionalities as the original desktop app.</li> <li>Add a django based wrapper to the existing backend so that it can communicate with the web-app.</li> </ol>

Mentors: Student: Arkajyoti Basak

<p>The main aim of this project is to improve the environment of the remaining 6 drone exercises and migrate them from ROS-Melodic node-templates based Robotics Academy v2.1 to web-templates based Robotics Academy v2.3.</p> <p>Develop and introduce a new exercise- Drone Package Delivery in ROS-Noetic and Gazebo-11.</p>