ChessBot

Overview

This is a simulated chess playing robot created for MIT's Course on Robotic Manipulation. It uses a combination of Deep Perception (Mask R-CNN, ICP), Chess Engine (Stockfish), and Differential Inverse Kinematics (Drake) to percieve and manipulated pieces on a chess board. Running the ipynb files in demos allows a user to play against the robot, as well as experiment with the simulation and perception systems.

Please see our supplementary video for a demonstration and technical overview of ChessBot.

Setup

1. Create a virtual enviroment.
2. Install Drake locally.
3. From the main ChessBot directory, run setup.py develop or setup.py install to develop or install ChessBot.

Questions?

Feel free to message me (elchun) for any project questions.