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GroupT - Chessrobot

Contact Information

University: GroupT university college - Leuven Belgium

Team Members (with year of graduation):

Arne Vanderlinden - will graduate : 2015

Bertrand Philips - will graduate : 2016

Giel Vanhoudt - will graduate : 2016

Joris Brankaer - will graduate : 2015

Lukas Fierens - will graduate : 2015

Tom Vranckx - will graduate : 2015


Faculty Advisers: Lukas Fierens

Email Address: lukasfierens43@gmail.com

Submission Language

Dutch/Nederlands

Project Information

Title: Chessrobot

Description:

The chessrobot is a robot that will replace a human opponent in chess. The computer detects your move thinks about a new move and executes it using an elektromagnet.


Products

- DAQ 6008

- Labview 2012 version 12.0

- Vision Assistent 2012

- BlueJ

- Elektromagnet

- Webcam

The Challenge

Build an opponent for chess that is a worthy player.

The Solution

The robot functions by moving a platform ,with an elektromagnet mounted in it, in

two dimensions. All chesspieces are equiped with permanent magnets underneath

them so they can be easely attracted by the elektromagnet. The elektromagnet moves

under the chessboard an can therefor not be seen. For the design we wanted to recreate the magical

chessboard out of 'Harry Potter'.

Labiew helped us to keep our program organised and helped us to be able to overview

it with the graphical interface. Labview helped us to get more out of our project than we

could have hoped for with the pictogram-style interface and debuggingtool.

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KzgZ5JPMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGW3AhDrH4

The robot was handed in as a project in it's alpha or beta fase.

It contained still some bugs but due to a lack of time were not fixed.

With our team of six engineers we all spend around 120 hours on the

project including report and programminglesson. An estimate for the total

hours we spend on the project would be around 720 hours.

Attach Poster (30 in. x 38 in.) and LabVIEW Code

Labview code in attechment.

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