Abstract:

The educational innovation described in this work has been applied in the celebration of a competition open to students of Electrical, Electronic and Mechatronics Engineering.

The strategy "Mini Sumo Autonomous Robot Championship" seeks that students apply the skills acquired in the different subjects taken, such as teamwork, control circuit design, microprocessors, automation and programming. It seeks to reinforce the learning process of the students in the psychomotor and emotional stages, after they have validated the cognitive part in the different subjects.

The competition is based on the international rules of the FSI All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament. In the championship, two robots compete against each other in a combat area called Dohyo. A maximum robot weight is set. The robots must operate autonomously. Each combat consists of three rounds of maximum 1 minute each, so each combat will last a maximum of 3 minutes.

The victory in the round can be obtained in three ways:
1. take the opponent robot out of the Dohyo without getting out of it.
2. Flip the opposing robot in such a way that it stops having traction, without the possibility of getting back into combat by its own means in the following 5 seconds.
3. That at startup present movement and control when the opponent remains motionless for more than 5 seconds.

Participating teams are composed of four students and a tutor, students can be of any grade. In order to increase the social impact of the event, the students in the teams can be from other universities or high schools.

Keywords:

Robot design, specific competences.