Robot sports games (such as the Robot Soccer World Cup) are mostly unsatisfactory. Although the game system is relatively new, the performance of robotic players is not always satisfactory. But now, another robot sports event is enough to make you bloody. This project is sumo!
Recently, Japan held a grand robot sumo contest, attracting a strong crowd of onlookers. This may sound new, but as everyone knows, this robot sports feast has been held for many years.
As we all know, sumo is a kind of sports that is popular among Japanese people. The winners of the competition enjoy a high honor.
It was out of love for sumo wrestling that Japan held its first robot sumo marathon in March 1990. The congress was quite successful. In December of the same year, it held the second robot sumo marathon. Since the following year, the Robot Sumo Conference has been held once a year.
It is reported that the rules of the Robot Sumo Tournament require that the length and width of the robot should not exceed 20 cm and the weight must not exceed 3 kg, which requires the height of the robot. The robot’s playing field is a round table with a height of 5 cm and a diameter of 154 cm. The table top is covered with black hard rubber, and the hard rubber is coated with 5 cm wide white lines at the edges. This black and white two-color boundary line facilitates the use of low-cost photoelectric sensors for boundary recognition by the sumo robot.
The sensors used by the Sumo robots include: ultrasonic sensors, tactile sensors, etc., and the cost is not high. It was because of the low cost that it developed rapidly. By the time of 1993, the number of robots participating in the 4th session had exceeded 1,000. As the competitive process is a direct contest between the robots of both sides, the atmosphere is intense and the competition is fierce.
The contestants created the sumo robot according to certain rules. The sumo robot uses a fully automated system instead of remotely controlling the competition like the BattleBots. The rules are simple: win the opponent in the shortest time and win. As with the traditional sumo wrestling competition, destroying opponents is not a goal of the game, but rather the beauty of strength and speed.
Once the game began, these "professional sumo wrestlers" began to fully enter the state, skilled use of various sumo skills. For sumo wrestlers, sumo wrestling is not just the beginning of the game, and it's slamming the opponent to the ground. Mechanical lift, swinging arms, and violent attacks are also crucial. At the same time, the rules of the robot sumo competition are more relaxed, leaving more space for the contestants. For example, in order to prevent opponents from pushing down the stage, some sumo robots have adopted methods that can absorb their bottoms on the playing field when necessary, and have won many times through this strategy.
But one of the rules is very strict: at any time, the robot's behavior must not attack, destroy or injure people, robots or other facilities. This is an unchangeable rule, even if the robot's behavior is unintentional and non-designed. During the inspection (or at any time of the event), the referee can ask the entrant to make adjustments to the robot in order to make it comply with non-destructive principles. Destructive robots will either be prevented from participating in the competition or will be disqualified after potential damage has been discovered.
Therefore, in general, a game down, even though the robot sumo wrestlers have fallen by opponents many times, their bodies are still intact.
Although spectators who are pursuing stimuli are sounding undamaged and not violent, this does not prevent the audience from applauding.
It is reported that the robot sumo contest has now spread to all parts of the world. China, the United States, and other countries have successively held several robot sumo contests.
Via:Sploid