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Information about the competition

Baltic Robot Sumo (BRS) is a collaboration of the robot builders in the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. We started this competition in 2008 to have a place where to test our skills and knowledge against each other and to meet and exchange experience. The event now takes place twice every year and has become very popular amongst robot builders. Experience gained from this has greatly helped us evolve and the level of the competition seems to be quite high as competitors from BRS have ranked high in other bigger competitions around the world. The event takes place in one of the participating countries and the host country changes all the time. Organizing the event itself is a challenge and an opportunity as it gives us engineers an opportunity to work in fields out of our expertise. Competition takes place in varied categories such as minisumo and standard sumo. We follow the international rules for robot sumo but we have some differences such as a class for Roomba sumo. Roomba sumo takes place with modified vacuuming robots from iRobot that compete on a standard sumo ring. Minisumo is very standard 500 grams and 10 cm square and is the fastest growing class at the moment. The main event is standard sumo class with 3 kg robots 20 cm square. This is very fierce and the competition is tight but every year we get more and more experience and the robots get faster and smarter all the time. This class is most fun to watch as the robots are extremely powerful and fast. The final mach is usually over in a few seconds as both robots are tuned for extreme speed and will make contact as soon as possible. Event with such short maches it is very tense for both the participants and spectators as the outcome is impossible to predict.

 

Despite being called Baltic Robot Sumo the competition is open and anyone can participate. We have no entry fees and the event is free for both participants and spectators. There are usually some demonstrations by robot builders or representatives from other events. Also the vent has hosted electronics companies who sometimes provide prizes and set up booths displaying their products. The competition rules will be placed in the documents part of this group and the calendar will be used to mark important dates such as the opening and closing of registration and the event itself. In the discussions example robots will be posted with details of their build, code and how they did in the competition.

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  • ratsept Level 2
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    1. Oct 5, 2010 6:09 AM (in response to ratsept)
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    The event took place this Saturday as planned and altogether we had 39 robots participating from 4 different countries. Besides the usual Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania we had one team come all the way from Romania. We had 49 robot builders at the event and it took us 9 hours to find the true champions in robot sumo.

     

    The final lineup was as follows:

     

    Roomba category

    1. Optimus Prime (Lithuanian team "Rodman Robotics", the winning robot from the last event in Riga)
    2. Visvaris (Latvian team "Advanced")
    3. Robert the III (Latvian team "LED")

     

    Minisumo:
    1. Sprinter (Lithuanian team "Rodman Robotics")
    2. Põrgupoiss (Estonian team "TUT Robotics Club", 2009 Tallinn Spring Cup winner, the only robot to win a match against the category winner)
    3. Wolf (Lithuanian team "Rodman Robotics", 2009 Klaipeda Fall Cup winner)

     

    Standardsumo:
    1. Sioko (Lithuanian team "Rodman Robotics")
    2. ChuckMR ( Latvian team "Elektronikas klubs", the first robot to use electromagnets as feet for locomotion in BRS)
    3. Master of Disaster (Lithuanian team "Rodman Robotics", the winner of many BRS cups, European best from Vienna RoboCup -- RobotChallenge 2010 Standard sumo category winner)

     

    So overall the Lithuanians were the champions once again. I would like to extend my gratitude to all participants and congratulate the winners.

    The next event will be held in Klaipeda in Lithuania.

     

    The event was sponsored by Farnell and The Student Union of Tallinn University of Technology.

     

    Farnell gave out 1000 EUR as prizes to all the winners and also sponsored the event. They had a booth at the event and had a lottery for all participants for more prizes. One of the prizes went to the Romanian team.

     

    On the behalf of the organizers I would like to thank all the sponsors aswell.

  • Alistair Winning PremierFarnell
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    2. Oct 5, 2010 6:35 AM (in response to ratsept)
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    Thanks for teh report.


    Will there be pics and videos later? How did your team do?

  • ratsept Level 2
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    3. Oct 5, 2010 7:16 AM (in response to Alistair Winning)
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    There will be videos and pictures but we still have to work on them. We did a live broadcast over the internet and also saved all the videos. We have a total of at least 10 hours of video and I am quite sure that we can find good material to post here.

     

    I was one of the organizers so I couldn't participate personally but the little robot with mbed for a brain did take part. It was very fast and had power to spare but it only weighed a little over 300 g versus the 500 the other robots did so it didn't do very well. I will post pictures of that robot and some info about what went wrong and what went right in the other thread.

     

    One of the robots in our club got 2. place in minisumo and could have been first but in the end it all came down to luck and this time we were not so lucky. That robot was also operated by someone else as it belonged to the main organizer and we had a lot to do that day.

     

    I'm hoping next time we will have better results as we will have more time. We have a very expensive (and hopefully good) 3 kg robot in the works and hope to enter that in the Klaipeda Cup.

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