| dc.description.abstract | Nerenchi, a board game, deeply rooted in Sri
Lankan culture, involves strategy and skill, making it a
challenging and engaging pastime. Traditionally played
with two players, the game is known for its intricate rules
and strategic depth. Nerenchi is under the threat of
extinction and there is a need for innovative solutions to
modernize and preserve these games, making them
appealing to contemporary audiences and protecting these
cultural games. This paper presents the design and
implementation of an Intelligent Gaming Robot, capable of
playing the traditional Sri Lankan board game, “ Nerenchi” , with a human opponent. A monitoring system, Knowledge
based decision making system and Robotic system are the 3
main units of this proposed system that can easily identify,
and make decisions and acts according to the game stage and the opponent ’s movements. Monitoring System used to
identify the positions of the board and the nerenchi pieces
by image processing techniques and according to that data,
the Knowledge based decision making system with a prolog
rule-based engine specially designed to nerenchi send
instructions to the Robotics System, that used to place,
remove and replace the nerenchi pieces using a Robotic Arm
with 4 servo motors. This innovative approach combines
advanced robotics and Human-Computer gaming to
preserve and modernize traditional board games, offering a
unique blend of heritage and technology. The paper mainly
details the hardware architecture and techniques, the
computer vision algorithms employed, rule-based decision
making process, demonstrating the feasibility and
effectiveness of the proposed system. | en_US |
