An Open-Source Robotic Chinese Chess Player

Shan An1; Guangfu Che2; Jinghao Guo2; Yanjie Xu3; Guoxin Wang4; Konstantinos A. Tsintotas5; Fukai Zhang6; Junjie Ye7; Changhong Fu7; Haogang Zhu8; Hong Zhang9

10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341697

2023

2153-0858

978-1-6654-9191-4

2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

6238-6245

1-5 Oct. 2023

Detroit, MI, USA

Consumer robots can accompany children growing up, improving their abilities while playing and entertaining. This paper presents an open-source, practical, low-cost robotic Chinese chess player. The proposed system includes an elaborate mechanical structure, a simple kinematic solution, a novel robot operating system, real-time and accurate chess recognition. Regarding its mechanical design, it combines a magnetism structure and mechanical cam drive, while the overall system has just three servo motors. At the same time, its control strategy is simple and effective. Furthermore, a lightweight robot message communication mechanism, entitled TinyROS, is developed for computing resource-limited embedded chips. Concerning the recognition process, our CNNbased object detector determines chess and achieves accurate identification. As a result, our robotic Chinese chess player is exquisite and easy for large-scale promotion while improving users' chess skills. Aiming to facilitate future consumer robot research and popularize customer robots, the model's mechanical and software design and the TinyROS protocol are open-sourced at https://github.com/Star-Robot/chinese-chess-robot.

Visualization Protocols Software design Operating systems Detectors Real-time systems Reliability

其他

EI

20240315412596

Industrial robots ; Object detection ; Open source software ; Open systems ; Robot Operating System ; Software design

Mechanical Design:601 ; Computer Software, Data Handling and Applications:723 ; Computer Programming:723.1 ; Data Processing and Image Processing:723.2 ; Computer Applications:723.5 ; Robotics:731.5 ; Robot Applications:731.6

IEEE

1.JD Health International Inc., Beijing, China
2.JD.COM Inc, Beijing, China
3.Puncture (Shanghai) Intelligent Medical Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China
4.College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
5.Department of Production and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
6.Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
7.School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
8.State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, China
9.Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

Shan An,Guangfu Che,Jinghao Guo,et al. An Open-Source Robotic Chinese Chess Player[C],2023:6238-6245.