Automated Robot Control for a Game of Chess in Unity Game Engine through Artificial Intelligence

The topic of this paper is to study the possibility of using Unity game development engine for robot control. The aim of the work is to create a virtual environment in which the game of chess is simulated, through a duel of two robots controlled by artificial intelligence. As part of the work, real robot models were implemented in the Unity game engine. The simulated robots were ABB's IRB-120 arms with two joints. The movement of the robot is fully simulated within the physics simulation in the Unity system. The Forward and Backward Reaching Inverse Kinematics (FABRIK) algorithm was used for the inverse kinematics algorithm. For calculating the next move, external artificial intelligence library Stockfish was used and integrated with the Unity game engine. The final application has automated moves between the robots, has the option of a simple change of the viewpoint through camera movement, and is intended to be used in future work for the control of a real robot.