Nakul Srikanth

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2025-128

May 22, 2025

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2025/EECS-2025-128.pdf

GamesCrafters is a research and development group at UC Berkeley focused on combinatorial game theory and puzzles. Over the past 25 years, it has engaged more than 750 students in the strong solving of abstract strategy games and puzzles through exhaustive search. The group also provides tools for analysis, visualization, and perfect play. This report details the design and implementation of GamesmanROS—an autonomous, game-playing, 6-degree-of-freedom robot that leverages these strongly solved solutions to play over 22 board games and puzzles.

Advisors: Dan Garcia

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Srikanth:EECS-2025-128,
    Author= {Srikanth, Nakul},
    Editor= {Garcia, Dan and Goldberg, Ken},
    Title= {GamesmanROS: A Generalized Game-Playing Robotic System},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2025},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2025/EECS-2025-128.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2025-128},
    Abstract= {GamesCrafters is a research and development group at UC Berkeley focused on combinatorial game theory and puzzles. Over the past 25 years, it has engaged more than 750 students in the strong solving of abstract strategy games and puzzles through exhaustive search. The group also provides tools for analysis, visualization, and perfect play. This report details the design and implementation of GamesmanROS—an autonomous, game-playing, 6-degree-of-freedom robot that leverages these strongly solved solutions to play over 22 board games and puzzles.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Srikanth, Nakul 
%E Garcia, Dan 
%E Goldberg, Ken 
%T GamesmanROS: A Generalized Game-Playing Robotic System
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2025
%8 May 22
%@ UCB/EECS-2025-128
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2025/EECS-2025-128.html
%F Srikanth:EECS-2025-128