Web Application for Robotics Education

Project Description

Our team is currently developing a full stack web application specifically designed for students taking higher education robotics classes. The main goal of this project is to give students convenient access to the open-source OpenAI Gym robotics environments, which are exercises that allow students to develop and test reinforcement learning algorithms. WARE incorporates these robotics environments in a user friendly website, and adds valuable features such as a code editor with syntax highlighting and support for uploading an existing code file. Users are able to view the output of their code with a generated video and shell output after the back-end server compiles the user's code.

In addition, WARE provides a user account management system to manage access to WARE. To use WARE in an educational class, instructors will create their own accounts. Afterwards, instructors can create a class within WARE, which generates a Class ID that can be distributed to students. Students create their own accounts using the Class ID given to them. Instructors can observe and evaluate the progress made by each student in the environments assigned.

WARE is developed with performance and simplicity by utilizing the lightweight Flask server framework and Bootstrap web development libraries. All code compilation is conducted on the back-end server, giving users the capability of using the OpenAI Gym framework without installing it on their own machines. This, combined with the goal of making the website's design fully responsive, allows users to take advantage of WARE using low-power devices such as smartphones and tablets.