Implementation of an autonomous chess playing industrial robot

This paper describes how a standard 6-DOF industrial robot is equipped with additional hard and software to enable the machine to play chess with a human chess player. For automatic interaction with human player, these moves were recorded by a webcam and automatically analyzed. No manual (keyboard-) input is necessary. One goal of the work is that the implementation of the chess playing robot should be done by using standard software to minimize the use of self-written code. Due to that target the controller of the robot interacts with an external computer, hosting MATLAB, the KUKA-KRL-Toolbox for Matlab and the Open-Source chess engine STOCKFISH. All software components which are not supported by the origin robot system, are integrated by using MATLAB. Introduction.