Posts Tagged ‘robot’

Looks pretty good so far!

Posted: January 29, 2013 by MG in Photo
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Looks pretty good so far!

Gripper and forearm are almost complete. The 3D-printed pieces have been put together and the motors are in place.

Only wiring left to go to finish the upper arm…

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MG & DK

Robot Chess Competition

Posted: January 3, 2013 by MG in General, Photo
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Chiara robot

Robot Chess Competition

The Chiara robot has the same gripper design as ours.

I guess great minds think alike… šŸ˜›

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MG

This is a blog created to chronicle the development of the “Human-Robot Chess” project. This is a Senior Design research project being worked on by 4 engineers at Drexel University and theirĀ adviser:

  • Daksh Kapoor (Computer Engineer)
  • Mayank Gureja (Computer Engineer)
  • Evan Dissanayake (Electrical/Computer Engineer)
  • Anson Jacob (Electrical/Computer Engineer)
  • Pramod Abichandani (Adviser)

The purpose of this project is to build a robot arm that can autonomously play chess against a human opponent. This requires the construction of a mechanical arm, an image processing software and a chess algorithm. The project will use a Microsoft Kinect Sensor as the visual input.Ā TheĀ sensor will be used to identify the current state of a chess board, pass this information toĀ an AI chess program, and command a robotic-arm to move the chess pieces.

Our final objectives are:

  1. Create completely autonomous chess playing robot arm
  2. Use Microsoft Kinect sensor to map the chess board
  3. Create a robotic arm
  4. Integrate chess algorithm, Kinect sensor and the robot arm to play a complete game of chess with a human opponent

In the following months, we will regularly update this blog with our progress.

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MG, DK, AJ & ED