This project's is about getting a UR5e robotarm to play chess against you. We have a DGT-board and a UR5e robot to disposition.
- Python
- Fusion 360
- VMware Workstation 16 Player
- Bambu Studio
It can almost play chess by itself with a human opponent.
- It can get the state of the DGT board and translate it into SAN and UCI values, which is very usefull to push a move or give instructions to robotarm.
- The robotarm knows every chess-square, and can move to all of them and pick and place the pieces. The only input needed is the UCI,
b2b4, which is beeing devided into two variables by two different function's.
- Choose degree of difficulty (2 --> 10) and color ('white' or 'black').
- You can play chess against the robot, but it can't capture pieces.
- It has a gripper, but it need some improvement.
- Get a way to accept captures, and this is the same issue as the one over. This goes on in the same class,
testChess.py. - Spesial moves: En passant and castling is not taken into account.
- A better gripper and more safe gripper, to pick up the pieces.
As in the topic "What the project needs", this section is pretty similar.
- It needs safety parametre for the robot arm, so it doesn't bump into anything or damage anyone.
- When illegal moves is preformed, the robot has to signilize someway that the move is illegal, maybe pointing at a piece of paper that says illegal, or print on the screen "Illegal move". Because chessplaying at boards, it's not always easy to see that you actually did a illegal move, especially if you are under pressure and have limited time to finish the move.
- Need a basket for the captured pieces.
- Download the zip-file.
- Open the folder you just extracted to Visual Studio code.
- Type into termial: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
- Type into termial: pip install python-chess
- Clone this repository: "https://github.com/niklasf/python-asyncdgt/tree/master" in the same place you have you'r project (zip-file)
- Type into terminal: pip3 install asyncdgt