College of Engineering

Finn P Clements

College of Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Youngmoo Kim

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Richard Vallett Co-Mentor

Recreating HUBO’s Interface

Programming robots can be challenging. For example, robots have many individual systems that must come together to create even a simple motion. If these systems are not perfectly aligned, the robot won’t be able to work properly. Even systems specifically designed for robotics programming include many small, “low level” , commands such as motor movements, velocities or motion timing. The robot my research has been focused around is HUBO, a humanoid robot created and advanced at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He operates solely on low level commands which is extremely tedious to program. My solution to this problem was to create a new syntax that operates using higher level commands. These commands combine multiple low level operations to create a behavior such as, an arm movement or kicking his leg. Using these commands enables us to avoid worrying about low level command to focus on the overall movement. This new code is much more approachable and inclusive to all generations and backgrounds. This system makes it much easier to create new movements and dances, which has helped to inspire children in the ExCITe summer programs, Young Dragons and the Summer Music Technology Camp.

College of Engineering

Ekene D. Illoh

College of Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Youngmoo Kim

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr. Brandon Morton, Dr. Andy Stutzman Co-Mentors

Web Design with WordPress and CSS

Small businesses in local areas often find it difficult to grow their business on a digital platform. The Drexel ExCITe Center participates in a program called the Community Business Collaborative (CBC) whose mission is to help such local businesses create a digital presence for their brands through the use of websites, mobile apps, etc. One of the tools used to achieve this goal is WordPress – a free, online web-design platform. This summer my role in this program was to create a set of tutorials for WordPress that would help students looking to participate in the CBC learn how to use the WordPress platform to create posts, pages and sites. I created sets of tutorials known as digital playlists which users complete to earn digital badges, which are badges received online that show the credentials for completing a task. The playlists were structured such that after completion, a user would be familiar with most of the services WordPress has to offer. The tutorials will be published on the ‘LRNG: Philly’ website – a free website where teens 13 and older visit to learn new skills and discover new opportunities. I also carried out research on CSS, a coding language that can control the layout of webpages. I learned how to use CSS to further improve the design of websites made with WordPress, providing more professional layouts for the webpages.