Overview

Why you want to be part of the Sumo Robot Competition

• Great way to enter the Robotics World
• Hands-on experience
• Exposure to engineering design
• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Software
• Expand your knowledge with advanced features
• Anodizing
• Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
• Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
• Will look good on your resume!

Competition Rules

The competition will be open only to undergraduate students of University of Toronto. In addition, a student may not compete in this competition more than once. This is to encourage students to move on to UTRA’s bigger teams.

Arena

• The playing field will consist of a 60-inch diameter circle, finished in a non-reflective black surface with a white painted boarder and elevated 2 inches above the floor.

Design Constraints

• At the start of each round, each competing machine must be able to fit into a box with internal dimensions with a width and depth of 20 cm. There is no restriction on height.
• The weight of the robot itself may not exceed 3 Kg.
• No destructive weapons allowed.
• The power supply and all control devices must be on-board.

Match Rules

• At the start of each round, the robots will be placed on opposite sides of the platform facing in a clockwise direction (i.e., not at each other).
• The intentional dropping of objects, whether tethered or not, is forbidden.
• A robot loses by exiting the ring or being disabled

Sumo Tutorials

You will be given three documents which will be your guide for the three major aspects of the sumo-robot:

• Mechanical
• Initial design idea
• SolidWorks Sheet Metal Tutorial
• How to use the tools available
• Electrical
• electrical components used in circuits
• how to wire How to wire prototype and semi-permanent boards
• how to solder properly
• and lots more (e.g., motor control)
• Software
• operate a micro-controller
• process data from sensors
• hardware <-> software communication (with C programming language)

Setting Up Your Team

We are letting you choose your own groups and highly recommend that you get into groups of three where each person is in charge of one aspect of the sumo-robot. Your team may consist of anything from 1 person to 5. If your team consists of 6 or more, we may have you split off into 2 groups.

Should you find yourself covering for a role you are unfamiliar with, the tutorials will cover ALL YOU NEED to know in order to build a sumo-robot. For example, if you have no experience with electrical circuits, you'll still be able to make the circuit for the sumo-robot. Keep in mind that no matter what you do, you will definitely learn very useful stuff.

Need a Team

If you do not have a team, we will help – please email us as soon as possible with your name*, your discipline, and your role preference*. Including what year you are in would also be a great help to us. We prefer not to match up a group of 3rd years and then another group with only first years.

*Don’t forget to include these parts. We will try our hardest to match you up according to your field of interest.

We will be starting team match-ups around November 9th. Match up will be a first-come-first-served basis.

Signing Up

You can sign up your team in two ways, email us or come to our lab/office listed below. We will not impose a deadline for signup. Nov 11th is the day we recommend you to sign up by. The idea here is that the earlier you sign up, the more time you have to work on your robot.

In your emails please include the following:

• All names of team members
• Your respective emails
• Your respective disciplines
• Your respective roles

Fees

In order to determine who will be committed to this project:

• For those without a team, we need a $20 deposit by November 11th.
• For a team, $60 deposit by November 11th (if you have a team with more or less than 3 people, it is still $60)

If you don’t pay by Nov 11th, we will not be including your team into our number of parts needed calculations. Parts will then go out to those who have paid their deposit first and if we do not have enough for your team, you will have to wait for more parts to come in. So please pay the deposit on time!

For all who sign up after Nov 11th, we will require you to pay the deposit before we sign you up and order the parts for you.

Parts

Parts will come at most a week after Nov 11th. This is when we will be collecting the rest of the fees. We will email all teams when parts come in for pick up at our office. We will also post up a complete Sumo Robot Part List spread sheet later so you may see the breakdown of the prices.

We are buying everything in bulk, so you can get them cheaper from us. We are not making any money off of this. The price we buy in bulk is the price you buy from us.

All the money will go for:

• Sheet metal
• All the electrical parts for the circuit + bread boards (micro-controller, H-bridge, sensors, resistors, capacitors...)
• Microcontroller Programmer (The IDE and other needed software can be obtained for free)

What we will not include are motors, wheels, and batteries. These are up to you so you can determine how powerful/fast you want your robot to be. All tools you may need are located in our two labs.

Important Dates

(if you miss them - no worries, BUT sign up ASAP if you are interested)

• November 4- Official Kick Off Meeting
• November 9- team match-ups begin
• November 11- sign up & pay deposits
• November 18- all parts should have arrived
• TBD- competition (likely in December or January)

You can always drop us an email (utra.sumo.robot@gmail.com), or drop by our office (Engineering Annex, EA, room 106). We will usually be in around 9:30-5.

If you know anyone who is interested in sumo-robot competition, but has not participated in any of our meetings, please direct them to this page.

Thanks,
Sumo Robot Team
utra.sumo.robot@gmail.com

If you are no longer interested in this competition but are still receiving emails from us, send us an email and we will take you off the mailing list.