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 30-inch diameter circle, finished in a non-reflective black surface with a white painted boarder and elevated 2 inches above the floor.
• When you're ready to practice, we have an arena in EA-106 that you can try your robot on.

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 length of 10 cm. There is no restriction on height.
• The weight of the robot itself may not exceed 2 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
  • etch your own printed circuit board (PCB)
  • 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

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 1st years. *Don’t forget to include these parts. We will try to match you up according to your field of interest. We will be starting team match-ups in late September. 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. 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.
• For a team, $60 deposit (if you have a team with more or less than 3 people, it is still $60)

If you don’t pay by the end of September, 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!

Parts

Parts will arrive in October. We will e-mail all teams when parts come in for pick up at our office. We will also post a complete Sumo Robot Part List spread sheet 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 is used for:

• Two DC motors
• All the electrical parts for the circuit (micro-controller, H-bridge, resistors, capacitors, etc.)
• One range sensor, and one light sensor

What we will not include are sheet metal, wheels, and batteries. Batteries are pretty standard, and we will sell you sheet metal depending on how much you need. The main thing that we do not decide for you is the wheels. The wheels you choose (we will not be selling any) will determine your gear ratio (speed/torque ratio) and traction. Therefore this one decision will set you apart from the other robots!

Important Dates

Registration is complete for the 2010-2011 year. Please check-back in September for next year's competition.