Shallow blue

Author

Burhans, Debra ; Selkowitz, Robert ; Sikorskyj, Jerod ; Lanighan, Michael

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci./Phys., Canisius Coll., Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

14-15 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We report on Shallow Blue (SB), an autonomous chess-playing agent designed on a limited budget with off-the-shelf consumer components. The system combines vision, piece manipulation, and decision-making functions to allow autonomous play against humans. SB demonstrates the increasing sophistication available to educators and students with consumer grade hardware, as well as the growth of opportunities for integrated software and hardware design by advanced undergraduate students. The paper documents the design, implementation, performance, and ongoing development of SB and its component systems.

Keywords

computer games; decision making; intelligent robots; multi-agent systems; Shallow Blue; autonomous chess-playing agent; consumer grade hardware; decision-making functions; embodied chess play; off-the-shelf consumer components; piece manipulation; piece manipulation functions; undergraduate students; vision functions; Bridges; Cameras; Games; Machine vision; Poles and towers; Robots; Sensors; Lego robotics; autonomous systems; chess; undergraduate research;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Woburn, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4606-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TePRA.2014.6869158

Filename

6869158