A Novel Framework for Robotic Chess

Abstract

In the subject of human-robot interaction, robotic chess is a new issue domain. The author introduces a robotic chess-playing robotic system capable of detecting all conceivable chess board states, creating following moves, and executing those moves. Existing chess-playing robots combine a camera to detect current game conditions and an interlocked framework arm to move the chess pieces across the board, making them very complicated and costly. In this proposed robotic chess, an X-Y plotter system is designed to transport chess pieces on the chessboard. In addition, the current game state is determined by sixty-four magnetic reed switches. Use of stepper motors, linear bearings, and a microcontroller-based chess engine for the system, improves the compactness and portability of the prototype.