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.
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